Sixty years ago, a sharecropper’s son invented a technology to identify faces. Then the record of his role all but vanished. Who was Woody Bledsoe, and who was he working for?

When Swedish teenagers hacked the phone system and turned a state-owned telecom system into a proto-Internet.

Karl Friston’s free energy principle might be the most all-encompassing idea since Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection.

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

“Norbert Grupe—a Nazi soldier’s son, boxer, professional wrestler, failed actor, criminal, and miserable human being who was never so happy as when he could make someone hate him—was once a man so beautiful that other men wanted to paint him.”

Bringing a serial killer to justice reveals the country’s other sources of death and suffering.