Science & Health

Medical mysteries, research breakthroughs, and the human body in surprising contexts.

A gene trial cost $860,000. It killed a 6-year-old girl.

Plus: chatbot logs in court, Candace Owens' loyal fanbase, and Russia's secret prisons for Ukrainians.

Aug 27, 2026

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2 min read

A stranger killed Katie Lesslie's children. She forgave him before she knew why.

Plus: an Idaho sect's needless deaths, a 9/11 survivor's tour, and why birds never built cities.

Aug 25, 2026

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2 min read

He fled a bank robbery on an inner tube. The Michael Jordan card got him caught.

Plus: a husband forgiving the unforgivable, Trump Jr.'s $160 million marketplace collapse, and the tick that can make you allergic to meat.

Aug 21, 2026

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2 min read

She thought she was sick. Her husband was drugging her.

Plus: a Border Patrol agent who shot a migrant in the forehead, a spy satellite NASA turned into a dark energy telescope, and the AI chatbot used to generate thousands of explicit images of a child.

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

DEA Leak Sparked the Zetas Massacre in Allende, Mexico

Plus: the case for killing deer to beat tick season, Vermont scientists infecting elms to save them, and what earthworms sound like eating.

Aug 18, 2026

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3 min read

He Spent $1.4 Million on a Live-Shopping App

Plus: Mexico's narco-slavery camps, the silence where the aliens should be, and why you're left-handed.

Aug 12, 2026

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3 min read

Sonia Exelby's Death: Inside a Paid-For Murder Plot

Plus: why kids can't quit Roblox, the hunt for a master counterfeiter, and a cabin build gone wrong.

Jul 30, 2026

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2 min read

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Plus: a phone sex operator on the sexual psychology of the right, the couple who saved China's oldest temples, and the biologist who traded God for a wolverine.

Jul 28, 2026

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2 min read

Tech Elites Want Immortality. Birthrates Say Otherwise.

Plus: Gen Z's birding obsession, Florida's real mermaids, and one mom's Dungeons and Dragons parenting fix.

Jul 17, 2026

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2 min read

Why Self-Driving Cars Feel Unsafe Despite the Data

Plus: tech billionaires looting sci-fi warnings, a movement to save the night sky, and a pig sanctuary's uncomfortable question.

Jul 16, 2026

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2 min read

Don Miller FBI Case: Largest Stolen Artifact Seizure

Plus: an AI raising two teenage daughters, a Soviet film sabotaged by an American engineer, and why 10 percent of us are left-handed.

Jul 15, 2026

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2 min read

My Favorite Stories from Atavist Magazine

Incredible longform true stories from the masters.

Jul 9, 2026

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2 min read

Moroun Family's Concrete Plant Clears a Detroit Block

Plus: the microbiome's hidden depths, a forgotten explorer's true route, and Jackass as therapy.

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Her baby died. The anti-vaxxers had an explanation before the autopsy did.

Plus: a week inside Thailand's most grueling fight gym, Darwin's messier Galápagos story, and one writer's AI boyfriend experiment.

Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

OnlyFans Managers Exploit Creators: Inside the Industry

Plus: a mother and son lost to two different mountains, the synthetic opioid flooding Ohio, and David Bowie's secret life on the Labyrinth set.

Jun 22, 2026

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2 min read

A guard heard ripping sheets. She went back to sleep.

Plus: Mississippi prison suicides, a man who built a chatbot of his dead fiancee, and the light and noise slowly erasing animal life.

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

Raw Farm: The Raw Milk Empire the FDA Couldn't Stop

Plus: inside Trump's Epstein war room, 1,100 new deep-sea species, and how Britain slipped below Mississippi.

Jun 10, 2026

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2 min read

As They Gut 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley Speaks Out

Plus: why measuring Earth's exact shape rewired science, Texas's first family of balloon racing, and the worms that suddenly forgot how to learn.

Jun 8, 2026

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2 min read

He Sold His House Using an AI Chatbot Instead of a Realtor

Plus: wildfire smoke and sick babies, deadly new microbes, and rural America's forgotten girls

May 29, 2026

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2 min read

Autocrats Are Plotting for Immortality

Plus: the underwater search for America's first people, a Russian family in hiding for 40 years, and a girl enslaved in a Texas suburb.

May 26, 2026

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2 min read

ChatGPT coached a reporter through planning a mass shooting

Plus: Plus: the testosterone boom, a PE firm cornering youth hockey, and a teacher fired for harassment who kept teaching.

May 13, 2026

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2 min read

Why Most People Lose On Prediction Markets

Plus: a casino disguised as a prediction market, surveillance built into your pocket, and one writer's year inside insurance's shadow workforce.

May 11, 2026

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9 min read

Babies are dying from a shot parents won't let them have

Plus: the Indianapolis Clowns' controversial return, NYC's most violent women's shelter, and a blind woman living in a car for a decade.

May 7, 2026

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7 min read

David Attenborough's voice is being cloned to spread disinformation.

Plus: Athletes are cheating death with $160K machines, the SBC buried its abuse survivors, and China is quietly rewriting video games.

May 6, 2026

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7 min read

Adopted kids are the troubled teen industry's most profitable target

Plus: a dog longevity pill nears FDA approval, a Pennsylvania dairy dynasty sells its last herd, and new science on bee cognition.

May 4, 2026

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7 min read

Science & Health

A gene trial cost $860,000. It killed a 6-year-old girl.

A stranger killed Katie Lesslie's children. She forgave him before she knew why.

He fled a bank robbery on an inner tube. The Michael Jordan card got him caught.

She thought she was sick. Her husband was drugging her.

DEA Leak Sparked the Zetas Massacre in Allende, Mexico

He Spent $1.4 Million on a Live-Shopping App

Sonia Exelby's Death: Inside a Paid-For Murder Plot

Glenn Burke: Who Really Invented the High Five

Tech Elites Want Immortality. Birthrates Say Otherwise.

Why Self-Driving Cars Feel Unsafe Despite the Data

Don Miller FBI Case: Largest Stolen Artifact Seizure

My Favorite Stories from Atavist Magazine

Moroun Family's Concrete Plant Clears a Detroit Block

Her baby died. The anti-vaxxers had an explanation before the autopsy did.

OnlyFans Managers Exploit Creators: Inside the Industry

A guard heard ripping sheets. She went back to sleep.

Raw Farm: The Raw Milk Empire the FDA Couldn't Stop

As They Gut 60 Minutes, Scott Pelley Speaks Out

He Sold His House Using an AI Chatbot Instead of a Realtor

Autocrats Are Plotting for Immortality

ChatGPT coached a reporter through planning a mass shooting

Why Most People Lose On Prediction Markets

Babies are dying from a shot parents won't let them have

David Attenborough's voice is being cloned to spread disinformation.

Adopted kids are the troubled teen industry's most profitable target

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