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They’re fun. They’re also way more difficult to build than they seem.
How programmers turned the internet into a paintbrush.
A data investigation into how TikTok is shaping the music industry, in collaboration with The Pudding.
How Germany got stuck paying for Russia’s war.
Someone left these marks in the sand. We had to find out who.
The letter now signifies loyalty to the Russian president.
Why war crime investigators are looking for cluster bombs in Ukraine.


Can the US and Russia still collaborate in space?


And the long history of why protecting physical culture matters.
This two-legged chair has been famous for almost 100 years.
It was supposed to be the future of housing. What went wrong?
It was a man-made famine that Russia continues to cover up to this day.
CGI superheroes are more common than you think.


Mandates around the globe are ending, but don’t throw out your masks yet.
The battle for Ukraine’s skies has enormous stakes.
Zelenskyy’s rise in Ukraine, from TV star to president.
The conflict dates to at least 2014, but to get the full context behind the invasion, we go even further back.
The partisan pandemic, explained in 15 charts.


Other rich countries have family policies the US doesn’t.
“Sled head” is about more than just crashes.
How new buildings can actually fight displacement.
How a ski lodge became trapped in a border dispute.


What the monobob does and doesn’t do for gender equality.


Speed skating legend Apolo Ohno explains his “perfect race.”
It’s more about aerodynamics than aesthetics.
William Mumler claimed he could photograph ghosts ... and no one could prove he couldn’t.
Two decades of the world’s most notorious prison.


Tiny wobbles and faint twinkles have led astronomers to discover nearly 5,000 new worlds.


In the last decade, scientists have discovered thousands of exoplanets — and a lot of them are surprisingly weird.
Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades.
Year two of the coronavirus pandemic was filled with vaccines and variants, Summer Olympics, joys, and sorrows.
Inside North Carolina’s search for solutions for its thousands of pig manure lagoons.


A NASA astrophysicist explains humanity’s big new toy.

