How a small group academics revealed an ancient order of opthamologists.

A profile of Eugene Kaspersky, KGB-trained online security mogul.

In the early years of the Iraq war, the U.S. military developed a technology so secret that soldiers would refuse to acknowledge its existence, and reporters mentioning the gear were promptly escorted out of the country. That equipment—a radio-frequency jammer—was upgraded several times, and eventually robbed the Iraq insurgency of its most potent weapon, the remote-controlled bomb.

Investigating the investigation of the 2001 anthrax attacks.