An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of an inspired, decades-long ad campaign

The untold story of how British intelligence infiltrated and undermined the IRA

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Deep anxiety about the ability to have children later in life plagues many women. But the decline in fertility over the course of a woman’s 30s has been oversold. Here’s what the statistics really...

“I just wanted to keep on raising a pig, full meal after full meal, spring into summer into fall.”

A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer,...

A Princeton geologist has endured decades of ridicule for arguing that the fifth extinction was caused not by an asteroid but by a series of colossal volcanic eruptions. But she’s reopened that...

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Here’s what’s become of them.

Who really owns a great writer’s legacy?

The planet’s tallest animal is in far greater danger than people might think.

One of the worst maritime disasters in European history took place a decade ago. It remains very much in the public eye. On a stormy night on the Baltic Sea, more than 850 people lost their lives...