The Feature

After centuries of persecution, brown bears are showing up in some unexpected places.

ctrl+alt+delete started as a trade secret. Then it became an icon.

Animals keep evolving into crabs, which Is somewhat disturbing

From its name, to its hazy origins, to its drug interactions, there's a lot going on beneath that thick rind.

A faraway island in Alaska has had its share of visitors, but none can remain for long on its shores.

42,000-foot plumes of ash. 143-mph firenadoes. 1,500-degree heat. These wildfires are a new kind of hell on earth, and scientists are racing to learn its rules.

For nearly 50 years, a tight-knit group of San Francisco private eyes—intellectual, swashbuckling, anti-authority lefties—practiced their craft in the pursuit of truth and, hopefully, justice.

Wendy Carlos's music of the spheres

For nearly 2,000 years, the Roman ruler has been depicted as an egotistical monster who fiddled while Rome burned. But is this image accurate?

What happens if the stories we tell ourselves about our lives leave us lonely, wrestling with meaning?

Unfettered media consumption skews our perception of the present. Here’s how to break the cycle.

My chief occupation for the past six summers has been as a fire lookout in the Black Range District of the Gila National Forest in New Mexico. For ten of every fourteen days I sit and watch for smoke from a mountain ten-thousand feet high.

Deprive people of interactions with peers, and their social skills will atrophy. This is yet another side effect of the pandemic.

The heyday of music blogs was all about community, competition, and context. One ex-blogger reminisces on this unique and short-lived chapter of music history.

A trove of recently released documents confirms that Washington’s role in the country’s 1965 massacre was part of a bigger Cold War strategy.

Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.

We are well advised to not lose track of evolution’s dark side.