On most days, I’m glad I quit smoking. But something is gone from my life and, more essentially, from the culture—something we’re unlikely to get back.

Stores are stocked with copycat designs. It’s a nightmare.

Every so often, our star fires off a plasma bomb in a random direction. Our best hope the next time Earth is in the crosshairs? Capacitors.

The international idea of who counts as a refugee is over half a century old. But today the lines between "refugee," "migrant," and "illegal border crosser" have all begun to blur.

How a small airport in central Kenya became a hub for high-end electronics imports, thanks to the global Somali diaspora.

I love it, lean on it, count on it. I miss it when it’s gone, and I fight it when it’s around. I try to remember a time before the arrival of Vicodin. I think and think and think.

My dad was one of the only people with a good-for-life, go-anywhere American Airlines pass. Then they took it away. This is the true story of having—and losing—a superpower.

In the ’80s, Susan Headley ran with the best of them—phone phreakers, social engineers, and the most notorious computer hackers of the era. Then she disappeared.

“Incels” are going under the knife to reshape their faces, and their dating prospects.

Customs restrictions, high transport costs, and a short shelf life have made the world’s greatest mangoes — grown in Pakistan — difficult to come by in the U.S.