A new era in the search for life on Mars.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

A profile of Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia.

“Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug.”

A profile of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

“This is the story of Billy Conn, who won the girl he loved but lost the best fight ever.”

It was a 3-mile footrace. Thousands were in attendance. So how did Michael LeMaitre disappear?

Visiting a lost friend.

Dr. Elisabeth Targ became famous for running scientific experiments that appeared to prove the healing power of faith. Then she got sick and became a test subject herself.

How PTSD spreads from returning soldiers to their families.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

The story of Universe 25, a mouse utopia that became an overcrowded hell, and its implications for the future of humankind.

“For people who pay close attention to the state of American fiction, he has become a kind of superhero.”

On leaving New York for Portland.

On wearing a concealed handgun and how it changed the author’s worldview.

Dan Akroyd, John Belushi, cocaine, and the making of The Blues Brothers.

He was the father of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a school of therapy that some would liken to scientific brainwashing), a guzzler of cocaine, and a highly paid lecturer with fabricated credentials. He was present when a young woman shot herself in Santa Cruz—but did he pull the trigger? A “parable for the New Age.”

On the U.S. government’s pursuit of a legendary hacker.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

Gretchen Molannen was perpetually aroused. She couldn’t work or sleep.

On December 1, the day after this story was published, she killed herself.

A wedding photographer catches up with his past clients.

A father’s life, one year after the death of his three daughters in a fire.

A community says its children are being targeted by a group of pedophiles. But did widespread sexual abuse actually take place?

In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.