The team-up between MAD Magazine and DC Comics is guest-edited by Chip Zdarsky and arrives (when else?) April 1. Reading time 2 minutes April Fools’ Day is always an occasion to be very, very careful ...

Chanel’s tab is $136 million. At Kering, the company behind Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Balenciaga, the bill is nearly $60 million. And those are just two of the many brands owed money by Saks ...

Daisy Fancourt receives funding from Wellcome, UK Research and Innovation, the Prudence Trust, and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Vincent van Gogh sliced off his ear with a knife during a psychotic episode ...

Scientists hunting for the DNA of famed Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci say they’ve made a breakthrough—but some experts caution against interpreting the results as a smoking gun.

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A few years ago, while I was researching an article I was writing about a Nazi-killing mad trapper, I came upon unrelated stories of two expert woodsmen who went missing in the Yukon wilderness. The ...

In a new take on a technology from the 1960s, this year, researchers created a cassette tape that uses DNA instead of iron oxide to encode information on a plastic tape. It can hold a phenomenal ...

In mid-December, the 20-year-old Minneapolis resident was walking through the city’s Cedar-Riverside neighborhood when federal immigration officers stopped him. He offered to show identification. They ...

Special effects foreman Shannon Thompson explains the invisible work that goes into TV. Special effects foreman Shannon Thompson explains the invisible work that goes into TV. is a reporter focusing ...

Researchers studying Denisovan ancestry within East Asian populations found an anomaly in the lineage of the Jomon people. The group has little to no Denisovan ancestry, showing that this lineage ...