History

Gaming

PlayStation's Upcoming Samurai Adventure Is Fixing the Worst Part of the Original

By Trone Dowd
Science

Volcano Were Blamed for the Greatest of Earth’s ‘Big Five’ Mass Extinctions — Scientists Might Have Been Wrong

By Alex Farnsworth, David Bond, Paul Wignall and The Conversation
News

62 Years Later, a Divisive Sci-Fi Director Is Attempting the Most Unnecessary Remake

By Dais Johnston
Shopping

55 Amazon Picks Under $35 That Will Nail the Classic Mid-Century Modern Look with Ease

By BDG Commerce
Science

Why Did Ancient Humans Domesticate Horses? Here’s What We Do Know

By William Taylor and The Conversation
Gaming

25 Years Ago, Nintendo's Biggest Rival Launched a Killer Gaming Console — And Failed Spectacularly

By Mo Mozuch
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Apple TV+ Just Quietly Upgraded Its Most Underrated War Epic

By Alex Welch
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Netflix Just Quietly Added Zack Snyder’s Most Influential Epic Movie

By Lyvie Scott
Science

Ancient Viruses Contain Hidden Secrets About Our Climate’s Past — Here’s What They Reveal

By Virginia Rich, Matthew Sullivan, Lonnie Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Zhi-Ping Zhong and The Conversation
Culture

It’s Not Just You, Political Attacks On Scientific Theories Are Rising

By Ryan Summers and The Conversation
Game Guides

'Black Myth: Wukong' Explained: How Chinese Mythology Unlocks the Game's Plot

By Shannon Liao
Retrospective

35 Years Ago, Nintendo Released the First Handheld Zelda Game (It's Not the One You Think)

By Mo Mozuch
Science

Ancient Civilizations Used These Simple Measures to Cool Cities Down — Why Can’t We Do the Same?

By Brian Stone Jr. and The Conversation
Retrospective

20 Years Ago, The Most Unnecessary Horror Movie Exposed Hollywood's Worst Habit

By Kayleigh Donaldson
Science

Automakers Have Found A Brilliant New Way To Make All Cars More Fuel Efficient

By John Johnson Jr. and Knowable Magazine
Science

One Of Stonehenge’s Biggest Stones Traveled 430 Miles — But How?

By The Conversation, Nicholas Pearce, Richard Bevins and Rob Ixer
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, The Most Underrated Time-Travel Show Put a Fresh Twist on the Genre

By Alex Welch
Science

Scientists Drilled Into An Underwater Mountain In the Atlantic’s ‘Lost City’ To Obtain A Massive Core Sample

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Science

Ancient Human ‘Hobbits’ Were Even Smaller Than We Thought, Fossil Evidence Reveals

By Lauren Leffer
Science

What The Legacy Of Nutrition Facts Labels Can Tell Us About The Food We Eat

By Xaq Frohlich and The Conversation
Science

Can We Fix Climate Change If People Don’t Believe In It? Science History Offers Hope

By Ron Barrett and The Conversation
Retrospective

5 Years Ago, Quentin Tarantino's Epic Cult Thriller Rewrote American History

By Alex Welch
Retrospective

20 Years Ago, Matt Damon Made a Perfect Assassin Thriller — And Changed the Rules of Action Movies

By Alex Welch
Retrospective

65 Years Later, the Most Notorious Sci-Fi Movie Ever Made is Better Than You Remember

By Marya E. Gates
Science

What Secrets 385 Meteorites Tell Us About The Interior Of Mars

By James Day and The Conversation
Review

Peacock Just Quietly Released the Most Disappointing Roman Epic of the Decade

By Dais Johnston
Science

Scientists Discover A Lost Truth About What Actually Happened At Pompeii

By Elana Spivack
Retrospective

25 Years Later, The Most Influential Thriller of the Past Century Leaves a Troubling Legacy

By Matt Donato
Science

Australian Fossilized Amber Reveals A 42 Million Year-Old Secret

By Maria Blake, Jeffrey Stilwell and The Conversation
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, A Legendary Director Made an Underrated Vampire Thriller — And Set a New Standard for TV

By Matthew Monagle
Science

Ancient DNA Just Confirmed A Long-Held Theory About Australia’s Most Controversial Species

By Yassine Souilmi, Gabriel Conroy, Jane Balme, Sally Wasef and The Conversation
Review

Netflix Just Quietly Released Its Most Ambitious Viking Epic

By Lyvie Scott
Trailers

24 Years Later, 'Gladiator II' Could Break a Tedious Hollywood Curse

By Lyvie Scott
Yeehaw

The Most Epic Western of the Year Could Be the Nail in the Coffin for a Century-Old Genre

By Jake Kring-Schreifels
The Inverse Interview

How The Wildest Sci-Fi Movie of the Year Found Its Smartest Character

By Jake Kleinman
Science

4000 Years After Woolly Mammoths Went Extinct, We Might Finally Know Why

By Marianne Dehasque, Love Dalén and The Conversation
Science

Scientists Just Uncovered New Clues About Ancient Human's Most Mysterious Cousins

By Lauren Leffer
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, an Ambitious RPG Paved the Way for 2023's Game of the Year

By Mo Mozuch
The Inverse Interview

“I’m Doing This Movie.” The Wildest Erotic Thriller of the ‘90s Defied Hollywood at Every Turn

By Don Kaye
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Amazon Just Quietly Added Christopher Nolan's Best War Thriller Ever

By Alex Welch

35 Years Ago, the Most Important Batman Movie Changed Hollywood Forever

By Alex Welch
Entertainment

94 Years Ago, a Controversial Thriller Launched an Unstoppable Hollywood Trend

By Gavia Baker-Whitelaw
Retrospective

10 Years Later, a Divisive Director Made a Historic War Thriller With a Complicated Legacy

By Robert Daniels
Retrospective

15 Years Ago, The Most Overlook Battlefield Game Pioneered Modern Multiplayer Shooters

By Trone Dowd
Science

A New Study Debunks A Long-Standing Myth About the Inhabitants of Easter Island

By Doris Elín Urrutia
Retrospective

50 Years Ago, an Iconic Neo-Noir Thriller Shocked Audiences — And Changed the Genre Forever

By Jeff Ewing
Science

6,000 Years Ago, Scientists Find A Neolithic Society Treated Immigrants As Equals

By Elana Spivack
Gaming

'Indiana Jones and the Great Circle' Will Improve on the Movies in One Epic Way

By Trone Dowd
Fire and Blood

'House of the Dragon's Epic New Opening Credits is Ripped from Real History

By Dais Johnston
Retrospective

30 Years Ago, Jack Nicholson's Bizarre Werewolf Movie Killed the Strangest Hollywood Trend

By Kayleigh Donaldson