History

Retrospective

5 Years Ago, The Most Surreal Horror Miniseries Turned History Into a Modern TV Classic

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla
Science

A Lock of Hair Reveals Beethoven’s Genome for the First Time

BySarah Wells
Retrospective

15 Years Ago, Lance Reddick Made the Best Sci-Fi Show on TV Even Better

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

19 Years Ago, Charlie Kaufman Made a Modern Sci-Fi Classic — And Never Topped It

ByTim Brinkhof
Science

Archery May Have Originated in Europe 40,000 Years Earlier Than We Thought

ByThe Conversation, Laure Metz, Jason E. Lewis and Ludovic Slimak
The Inverse Interview

How 'Agent Elvis' Fixed the Biggest Problem With Elvis Biopics

ByRafael Motamayor
Science

DNA Study Reveals When Tibetans Got their High-Altitude Super Gene

ByMiriam Fauzia
Opinion

Why 'Creed' (Yes, 'Creed') Is the Best Movie Reboot Ever Made

ByPatrick Willems
Science

Archaeologists Discover Ritual Sacrifices at Mysterious 7,000-Year-Old Monuments

ByJennifer Walter
Oral History

Into the Myst: The Oral History of America's Oldest Surviving Indie Game Studio

ByAdam Morgan
Health

Daylight Savings Is Bad For Our Health — This Simple Method Is Better

ByThe Conversation and Beth Ann Malow
Science

These Tool-Wielding Monkeys Shed Light on a Huge Evolutionary Mystery

ByJennifer Walter
News

'Professor Layton' Trailer Brings Back Gaming's Most Underrated Aesthetic

ByJess Reyes
Retrospective

25 Years Ago, A Forgotten PS1 Gem Invented the Stealth Action Genre

ByMo Mozuch
Science

5,000-year-old Skeletons May Be World’s First Equestrians, Study Finds

BySarah Wells
Science

Cosmic Rays Reveal A Hidden Corridor in the Great Pyramid of Giza

ByKiona Smith
Yakuza

'Like a Dragon Ishin's Ending, and the True Story Behind It, Explained

ByHayes Madsen
Review

'Cocaine Bear' Review: A Drug-Fueled Descent Into Pure Chaos

ByAlex Welch
Science

Ancient Romans May Have Used Wooden Dildos, Researchers Say

ByJennifer Walter
News

David Fincher Reveals Why 'Mindhunter' Season 3 Didn’t (and Won’t Ever) Happen

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla
News

Steven Spielberg is Turning Stanley Kubrick’s Greatest Unmade Movie Into an HBO Series

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla
Science

Centuries Before Stonehenge, This Settlement Housed the First European Stone Monument Builders

ByJennifer Walter
Inverse Recommends

You Need to Watch the Most Underrated Action Epic of 2022 on Netflix ASAP

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla
Culture

You Need to Watch the Most Shameless Slasher Sequel Ever Before It Leaves HBO Max Next Week

ByJon O'Brien
Retrospective

30 Years Ago, an Amazing Time-Travel Movie Cemented an Unkillable Franchise

ByJake Kleinman
Feature

The Oral History of Raccacoonie, the Weirdest Universe in 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'

ByZach Schonfeld
Science

Ancient Neanderthal Leftovers Reveal How Skilled Our Distant Cousins Were

ByMiriam Fauzia
Retrospective

17 Years Ago, a Divisive Sci-Fi Show Redefined TV's Best Anti-Hero

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

16 Years Ago, 'Lost' Almost Solved Its Weirdest Sci-Fi Mystery

ByJake Kleinman
Game Recs

You Need to Play the Most Underrated Retro Sports Game on Nintendo Switch ASAP

ByDavid Grossman
Science

Ancient Egyptian "Funeral Home" Reveals Secrets of Embalming

ByJennifer Walter
science

Study: Some Vikings Brought Horses and Dogs To Britain

ByKiona Smith
Book of the Dead

‘Golden Boy’ mummy CT scans reveal 2,300-year-old burial traditions

ByRobin Bea
Retrospective

15 Years Ago, 'Lost' Jumped the Shark by Breaking Its Most Important Rule

ByJake Kleinman
Dracarys!

New 'House of the Dragon' Concept Art Book Plunges Into the Making of the Fantasy Hit

ByJeff Spry
Science

Studying ancient human DNA has unlocked our origins — but the ethics are hazy

ByEmiliano Rodríguez Mega and Knowable Magazine
Retrospective

35 years ago, a sci-fi legend made the strangest time-travel movie ever

ByJake Kleinman
Science

Look: Ancient mammal shows how modern animals could survive climate change

ByJennifer Walter
Chomp chomp

Look: Pterosaur ate like a whale with a mouth full of hooked teeth

ByJennifer Walter
and I feel fine

The Doomsday Clock is now at 90 seconds to midnight — here's what that means

ByKiona Smith
Science

Humans didn’t evolve to live in cold — our survival is a lesson in ingenuity

ByThe Conversation, Kyoko Yamaguchi and Laura Buck
Science

The oldest paintings ever found on Earth were not made by humans — research

ByPaul Pettitt and The Conversation
Opinion

Plague study complicates a commonly held belief about the Black Death

BySamuel Cohn, Philip Slavin and The Conversation
Culture

20 years ago, Danny Boyle made the most important post-apocalypse movie of all time

ByJake Kleinman
Retrospective

10 years ago, Brad Pitt made the most underrated apocalypse thriller of all time

ByJake Kleinman
Culture

2,454 years ago, one eerily familiar event led to the downfall of Ancient Athens

ByRachel Hadas and The Conversation
Science

Ancient Siberian DNA upends our understanding of Native American migration

ByMiriam Fauzia
This week in science

Soyuz rescue plan and more: Understand the world through 8 images

ByRobin Bea
Christ Killer

Nick Cave's weird, scrapped 'Gladiator 2' script still deserves to be made

ByAlex Welch
The Inverse Review

You need to watch the bloodiest Viking thriller on Netflix ASAP

ByMónica Marie Zorrilla