Jacqueline Rose on the trial of Oscar Pistorius.

Scientists have long struggled to find the cause of a chronic kidney disease that chiefly afflicts farmers, and now suspect strenuous labor and harsh work conditions. By Andrea Small Carmona.

For 40-plus years, the fate of Hale Boggs and Nick Begich has been unknown. One dogged journalist is trying to change that. By Rick Anderson.

Vultures carve lazy circles in the sky as a stream of tourists marches down a walkway into Colorado's Spruce Canyon. Watching their steps, the visitors file along a series of switchbacks leading to one of the more improbable villages in North America — a warren of living quarters, storage rooms, defensive towers and ceremonial spaces all tucked into a large cleft in the face of a cliff.

Decades ago, two young lovers were convicted of a brutal slaying. Years later, why has the case become a cause? By Nathan Heller.

Seven centuries ago, tens of thousands of people fled their homes in the American Southwest. Archaeologists are trying to work out why. By Richard Monastersky.

Nasa has released pictures of huge patterns drawn on the ground in Kazakhstan, in an attempt to solve the mystery behind how they got there. The huge formations are known as the Steppe Geoglyphs. Scientists have little idea how they were formed — but think that solving the mystery could lead to a huge change in how we understand early humans.

No one knows who or what is responsible for long-delayed echoes in radio transmissions. By Daniel Oberhaus.

For theme park buffs, Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean" is considered to be the gold standard of amusement rides.

After 15 years of research, the director of Withnail and I believes he has cracked the most enduring mystery in British criminal history. By Mick Brown.

A journey to the heart of New Guinea’s Asmat tribal homeland sheds new light on the mystery of the heir’s disappearance there in 1961.

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There are certain stories that stay with you. The haunting tale of the Dyatlov incident is one of them. In some ways the story is simple. In 1959 a group of eight experienced hikers went on a winter expedition in the Ural mountains of Western Russia. Twenty-four days after they set off, they were all found dead of hypothermia. While a tragedy, it isn't necessarily a story that you think would still be told over 50 years later. It is the details of the case that make it so mysterious and so co

The man presented an authentic looking European passport and carried European currency from several countries and carried himself in a professional manner but that wasn’t what alerted the authorities. No matter how much they had searched, the Customs agents could not find the European country that had issued him the passport anywhere in their maps. The unheard country of Taured. When they asked the Caucasian man to point on their map where Taured was located, he answered them in fluent Japanese.

When Ken Dornstein learned that Pan Am Flight 103 had exploded, he did not realize that his older brother, David, was on the plane. It was December 22, 1988, and Ken, a sophomore at Brown University, was at home, in Philadelphia, on winter break. Over breakfast, he read about the disaster in the Inquirer: all two hundred and fifty-nine passengers were killed, along with eleven residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, where flaming...

How Agatha Christie created the modern murder mystery.

This interactive website explores the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains through the lens of a murder case in the 1890s that evolved into a fascinating story that drew the attention of nearly everyone in town and people from across the region and country.

I, without knowing, dreamed parts of a truth. One part is this: my grandfather on my mother’s side was a murderer. Or was he? By Rita Gabis.

Obsessed with an image of four men on a rooftop in Brazil, the author went on a quest to find its origins. By Teju Cole.