Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.

Independent “researchers” are sharing unfounded theories across social media, which have the potential to spread panic and confusion—and have even fooled legitimate government agencies.

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, denies that he was ever in the IRA. The murder of Jean McConville threatened to expose him as a liar.

Trials and dangers abound for an interplanetary social worker.

Notes from the California recount.

Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.

A short history of leisure.

Inside the empire of Botox.

The life story of Rick Rescorla: immigrant, war hero, husband, and head of security at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter, occupant of 22 floors in the South Tower on September 11, 2001.

In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.

A recent raid in Italy involving rare Chilean species highlights the growing scale of a black market in the thorny plants.

A profile of Florida legend—and pardoned killer—Charlie Driver.

How forensic anthropologist Sue Black does her job.

“We need a new language for talking about poverty. ‘Nobody who works should be poor,’ we say. That’s not good enough. Nobody in America should be poor, period.”

What IARPA's project calls for is the deployment of spy resources against an entire language. Where you or I might parse a sentence, this project wants to parse, say, all the pages in Farsi on the Internet looking for hidden levers into the consciousness of a people.

A profile of Griselda Blanco, aka the “Black Widow,” who pioneered the cocaine trade in New York and Miami.

On the post-prison lives of several men in West Baltimore.

The real story of a fabricator.

Bill Bradley was a Rhodes scholar, a three-term U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate. But before all that, he was the best college basketball player in the country.

The biggest stars in the world are pledging their brains. Young players are leaving the game with their destinies unfulfilled. The stories they tell spark fear and raise questions. And the science hasn’t even begun to provide answers.

What happens when a wealthy patron wears out his welcome in the “strangest, most conflicted place in all of Texas”?

50onRed is a fixture in Philly’s startup world. But there’s something the leadership didn’t talk about, even with some of its own staff. They make malware.

It’s a sham known as “sewer service.” When process servers regularly fail to deliver summonses, it leads to to automatic evictions for unwitting tenants.

For 10 years, Libre—an arm of the Koch family’s Americans for Prosperity—has been working to foster conservatism in Hispanic communities. Now, the group is going all-in on Georgia’s Senate runoffs.

After six months of unrest, anti-Beijing protesters are increasingly unwilling to compromise.