Stéphane Breitwieser is a thief who millions of dollars worth of art, apparently primarily through sleight of hand and an astonishing appetite for risk. He is unlike most other art thieves in that he stole with no intention to sell, but apparently for the love of the work itself.
A look at the incredibly challenging work done by moderators at Facebook and their outsourcing partners, reportedly in far from ideal conditions.
A new state-of-the-art simulation from the California Institute of Technology suggests that clouds are critical to the future of climate change. At a certain tipping point the study suggests they will disappear, with disastrous consequences.
A fine piece about the story behind a powerful image of injured US Marines in the Vietnam War.
Roberto Saviano, the author of Gomorrah, on a strand of migration to the US linked directly to the effects of the Honduran drugs trade.
The dysfunctional final stages of the blood testing startup with a multi-billion dollar valuation that went very very wrong.
The story of a science-fiction infused conspiracy theory and a meditation on conspiracy theories in the internet age.
She was a Brazilian heiress on her first trip abroad, he the son of the owners of the hotel where she was staying in Italy. Teenage romance blossomed, but it would be more than half a century before they met again.
It was only after his death that the parents of a boy with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, learned that their son Mats had lived had a vibrant online life in World of Warcraft as Ibelin, “a nobleman by birth, a philanderer and a detective”.