History

Retrospective

20 Years Ago, a Music Legend Made a Shockingly Great Sci-Fi Movie

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

13 Years Ago, 'Lost' Gave Fans a Series Finale They Hated — It Was Also Perfect

ByJoshua Meyer
Review

Disney's Big New Movie Borrows a Brilliant Trick from 'Black Panther'

ByLyvie Scott
Retrospective

18 Years Ago, an Incredible Sci-Fi Show Raised Its Stakes — And Changed TV Forever

ByJake Kleinman
Trailers

Einstein! The Real History Behind 'Oppenheimer's Most Unexpected Character

ByDais Johnston
Retrospective

13 Years Ago, One Genre-Breaking TV Episode Changed Television Forever

ByEric Francisco
Science

20,000-Year-Old DNA Finally Revealed Who Wore This Ancient Elk Tooth Pendant

ByJennifer Walter
Movies

'Gladiator 2' Theory Uses Roman History To Explain Pedro Pascal’s Mystery Role

ByDais Johnston
Retrospective

25 Years Ago, a Classic Sci-Fi Franchise Unleashed Its Most Controversial Movie

ByJames Balmont
Science

Was Balto Part Wolf? DNA Analysis Reveals New Details About the Heroic Dog

ByElana Spivack
Review

'Sisu' Review: 'Inglourious Basterds' Meets 'John Wick' in this Nazi Revenge Thriller

ByAlex Welch
Archaeology

Scientists Are Fighting To Save Ancient Human History From a Rising Threat

ByKiona Smith
News

'Godzilla x Kong' Villain: 'New Empire' Easter Egg Teases a Shocking Twist

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Science

Why Did the Vikings Abandon Greenland? New Study Pieces Together a Complex Answer

ByJennifer Walter
Retrospective

30 Years Ago, A Bizarre Sci-Fi Sequel Killed a Near-Perfect Franchise

ByRyan Britt
Science

This Bizzare Practice is Transforming the American Lawn As We Know It

ByThe Conversation and Ted Steinberg
Science

Aboriginal Researchers Reveal An Untold Story of Australia’s “Fairy Circles”

ByFiona Walsh, Carolyn Oldham, Purungu Desmond Taylor, Theo Evans and The Conversation
Science

This Ancient Beverage Helped Tibetans Thrive On The “Roof of The World”

ByMiriam Fauzia
Science

These “Gorgeous” Skeletons Reveal a New Species of Ancient Bat

ByElana Spivack
Science

New DNA Analysis Reveals an Untold Story of Horses in America

ByThe Conversation, William Taylor and Yvette Running Horse Collin
News

'Welcome to Derry' Could Redeem 'It: Chapter Two’s Most Unnecessary Retcon

ByLyvie Scott
Science

Archaeologists Uncover First Direct Evidence of Drug Use From the Bronze Age

ByMiriam Fauzia
Review

'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Review: An Incendiary and Urgent Eco-Thriller

ByLex Briscuso
Movies

A24’s Most Surprising Horror Franchise is Tackling a New Hollywood Era

ByLyvie Scott
Feature

Sean Connery Almost Got Robin Williams' Part in 'Good Will Hunting' (and Other Fun Facts)

ByPaul Moore
Movies

The Real-Life Scandal Behind 'Barbie's Two Strangest Characters

ByDais Johnston
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, The Most Disturbing Cannibal Thriller Somehow Got Past Network TV Censors

ByAllyson Johnson
Oral History

The Oral History of 'Super Mario Bros.' (1993): "Nobody Was Happy About It"

ByRalph Jones
Science

The Weirdest Sci-Fi Movie on HBO Max Reveals an Even Stranger True Story

ByJennifer Walter
Feature

60 Years Later, Hitchcock’s Most Innovative Movie Is Still Shaping Hollywood in One Unexpected Way

ByZach Schonfeld
Science

Newly Unearthed Viking Gold Violates Our Understanding of Norse God Odin

ByMarianne Hem Eriksen and The Conversation
Retrospective

20 Years Later, the Riskiest Zelda Game Ever Made Deserves a Switch Remake

ByMo Mozuch
Retrospective

5 Years Ago, The Most Surreal Horror Miniseries Turned History Into a Modern TV Classic

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla
Science

A Lock of Hair Reveals Beethoven’s Genome for the First Time

BySarah Wells
Retrospective

15 Years Ago, Lance Reddick Made the Best Sci-Fi Show on TV Even Better

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

19 Years Ago, Charlie Kaufman Made a Modern Sci-Fi Classic — And Never Topped It

ByTim Brinkhof
Science

Archery May Have Originated in Europe 40,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

ByThe Conversation, Laure Metz, Jason E. Lewis and Ludovic Slimak
The Inverse Interview

How 'Agent Elvis' Fixed the Biggest Problem With Elvis Biopics

ByRafael Motamayor
Science

DNA Study Reveals When Tibetans Got their High-Altitude Super Gene

ByMiriam Fauzia
Opinion

Why 'Creed' (Yes, 'Creed') Is the Best Movie Reboot Ever Made

ByPatrick Willems
Science

Archaeologists Discover Ritual Sacrifices at Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Monuments

ByJennifer Walter
Oral History

Into the Myst: The Oral History of America's Oldest Surviving Indie Game Studio

ByAdam Morgan
Health

Daylight Savings Is Bad For Our Health — This Simple Method Is Better

ByThe Conversation and Beth Ann Malow
Science

These Tool-Wielding Monkeys Shed Light on a Huge Evolutionary Mystery

ByJennifer Walter
News

'Professor Layton' Trailer Brings Back Gaming's Most Underrated Aesthetic

ByJess Reyes
Retrospective

25 Years Ago, A Forgotten PS1 Gem Invented the Stealth Action Genre

ByMo Mozuch
Science

5,000-year-old Skeletons May Be World’s First Equestrians, Study Finds

BySarah Wells
Science

Cosmic Rays Reveal A Hidden Corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza

ByKiona Smith
Yakuza

'Like a Dragon Ishin's Ending, and the True Story Behind It, Explained

ByHayes Madsen
Review

'Cocaine Bear' Review: A Drug-Fueled Descent Into Pure Chaos

ByAlex Welch