Told a certain way, the life of Kimberly Noel Kardashian maps neatly onto the entire history of media in the new millennium. In her teen-age years, Kim’s family was part of the biggest televised ...

What starts as a random roadside stop quickly turns into a strange little mystery in the woods. There is a huge old tree visible on old maps, an open well hidden in the brush, scattered bricks from ...

When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

The Ediacara Biota are some of the strangest fossils ever found—soft-bodied organisms preserved in remarkable detail where preservation shouldn’t be possible. Scientists now think their survival in ...

Every now and then, fitness TikTok digs up something that’s been around forever and calls it a “trend.” Earlier this year, the honors went to zone 2 cardio, a relatively low-effort form of fat-burning ...

In Coimbatore's Selvapuram neighborhood, where family homes overlook open fields dotted with tall trees, a 1,550-square-foot home taps into the simplicity of Tamil architecture past. Designed by ...

Hello and welcome to the newsletter, a grab bag of daily content from the Odd Lots universe. Sometimes it's us, Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway, bringing you our thoughts on the most recent ...

It’s not shocking to see cases of the flu jump up during respiratory virus season. But there’s been enough talk about the so-called super flu swirling around that it’s fair to wonder what’s going on ...

The basics of photosynthesis are something that every student learns in school: carbon dioxide, water and light in; oxygen and sugar for growth out. In a world where atmospheric carbon dioxide levels ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...