History

Review

2022's Greatest Surprise TV Hit Has Become 2023's Biggest Disappointment

ByDais Johnston
Next in Tech

The Rocket That Could Take Humans to Mars Has Been 50 Years in the Making

ByRahul Rao
Retrospective

25 Years Ago, an Arcade Classic Redefined an Entire Genre — And Changed Video Games Forever

ByWilla Rowe
Retrospective

18 Years Ago, the Best Sci-Fi Show of the Century Took an Unprecedented Step Into the Unknown

ByJake Kleinman
Science

Scientists Go Pink Diamond Hunting — And Find A Prehistoric Surprise

ByDoris Elín Urrutia
Found in Translation

15 Years Ago, a Visionary Director Made a Shocking Dystopian Sci-Fi Movie That Was Ahead of Its Time

ByCarlos Aguilar
Luminaries

Bethesda Founder Christopher Weaver Is Racing to Protect Video Game History

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, The Greatest Crime Series of the Century Cemented Its Legacy

ByJoe Allen
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, Cillian Murphy Copied an American TV Trend — And Invented to New Kind of Gang Thriller

ByDais Johnston
Found in Translation

44 Years Ago, a Legendary Writer Made a Disturbingly Prophetic Sci-Fi Movie That Still Resonates Today

ByCarlos Aguilar
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, A Genius Director Made an Underrated Sci-Fi Movie — And Brought a Perfect Trilogy to Its End

ByFrancisco Dominguez
Found in Translation

37 Years Ago, a Rising Director Made a Hugely Influential Sci-Fi Movie — He Never Got His Due

ByCarlos Aguilar
Science

Geologists May Have Discovered a Huge, Ancient Asteroid Site That Triggered Mass Extinctions

ByAndrew Glikson and The Conversation
Exclusive

27 Years Later, the Director of a Groundbreaking Disaster Thriller Insists It "Cannot Be Remade"

ByJake Kring-Schreifels
Hammer Time

Oldboy Turns 20: Revisiting the Hallway Fight, the Meaning of Vengeance, and That Spike Lee Remake

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

52 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Made a Crime Masterpiece That’s Still Influential Today

ByAlex Welch
Retrospective

40 Years Ago, a Daring Cinematographer Pushed Stephen King's Most Unsettling Thriller to the Limit

ByJake Kring-Schreifels
Inverse Recommends

You Need to Watch the Most Brutal War Epic on Netflix ASAP

ByKayti Burt
Retrospective

50 Years Ago, George Lucas’ Most Influential Movie Paved the Way for Star Wars

ByEmmett O'Regan
Science

200-Million-Year-Old Poop Contains Fossilized Parasite Eggs

ByElana Spivack
Science

Why a Dig Into Earth’s Climate History Has Scientists Deeply Concerned

ByDarrell Kaufman and The Conversation
Retrospective

15 Years Ago, One Incredibly Weird Sci-Fi Sequel Signaled The End Of An Era

ByRyan Britt
Opinion

11 Years Later, 'Oppenheimer' Finally Fixes Christopher Nolan's Worst Ending

ByAlex Welch
Health

How Henrietta Lacks' Immortal “HeLa Cells” Transformed Medicine

ByJacqueline Ronson
Science

This Fossil of a Giant Whale Could Be The Heaviest Known Animal To Date

ByCharles Q. Choi
Movies

'Oppenheimer' Easter Egg Reveals A Wild Government Conspiracy Theory

ByDais Johnston
Retrospective

31 Years Ago, Paul Reubens Saved a Terrible Vampire Movie — And Launched an Unstoppable Trend

ByDais Johnston
space

How Oppenheimer Proved Einstein Wrong About Black Holes

ByJon Kelvey
Science

There's a “Gravity Hole” in the Indian Ocean, and Scientists Just Figured Out Why

ByElana Spivack
Movies

'Barbie's Greatest Strength Lies in Mattel's Weirdest Failures

ByDais Johnston
science

Ancient Human Burials Featured in Netflix Doc Spark a Scientific Controversy

ByKiona Smith
Science

Who Was Robert Oppenheimer? The Conflicted Father of the Atomic Bomb, Explained

ByDarius von Guttner Sporzynski and The Conversation
Destroyer of Worlds

'Oppenheimer’s Timeliest Political Message Is Also Its Most Complex

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

23 Years Ago, an Unknown Director Made a Mind-Blowing Revenge Thriller — And Changed Sci-Fi Movies Forever

ByJake Kleinman
Science

78 Years Ago, the First Nuclear Bomb Changed the World Forever — Here's Exactly How It Happened

ByThe Conversation and Daniel Cordle
Science

84 Years Ago, Einstein Wrote an Urgent Letter that Altered History Forever

ByElana Spivack
Review

'Oppenheimer' Review: Christopher Nolan's New Movie Is a War Epic Like No Other

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

20 Years Later, the Most Timely Sci-Fi Epic is Impossible to Find in the US

ByAndy Crump
Science

Ancient Egyptians Changed Humanity’s Relationship With Time — and We Still Feel It Today

BySarah Symons, Robert Cockcroft and The Conversation
Retrospective

10 Years Ago, Nintendo’s Most Underrated Series Released Its Best Game Yet — But No One Noticed

ByJoseph Yaden
Fortune And Glory

How Disney Used Geometry and AI to Make Indiana Jones Look Young Again

ByJake Kleinman
Health

While Earth Hits Record Temps, Scientists Find the Upper Heat Limit for the Body

ByMiriam Fauzia
Retrospective

5 Years Ago, the Best Apocalypse Saga of the Century Revealed Its Shocking Origin Story

ByJake Kleinman
Opinion

'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' Misses One Crucial Element From the Originals

ByRory Doherty
TV

The Most Influential Sci-Fi Franchise of All Time Just Got a New Streaming Home

ByHoai-Tran Bui
Opinion

Martin Scorsese's Epic First Western Is a Hollywood Blockbuster Like No Other

ByIsaac Feldberg
Retrospective

20 Years Ago, a Legendary Director Made the Perfect Apocalypse Movie — And Defied the Entire Industry

ByJake Kleinman
Feature

'28 Days Later': The Oral History of Danny Boyle’s Genre-Redefining Zombie Masterpiece

ByRalph Jones
Science

This Million-Year-Old Bone May Reveal an Ancient Human Cannibal

ByMiriam Fauzia
Review

Review: 'Indiana Jones 5' is Way Better Than It Has Any Right to Be

ByHoai-Tran Bui