Skip to main content

longreads

The Big Story

The Weird, Dark History of 8chan

By Timothy McLaughlin

The Big Story

How Scientists Built a ‘Living Drug’ to Beat Cancer

By Charles Graeber

The Big Story

High Drama: A Cannabis Biotech Company Roils Small Growers

By Hannah Wallace

Science

An Alien-Hunting Tech Mogul May Help Solve a Space Mystery

By Katia Moskvitch

Culture

Disney's New Lion King Is the VR-Fueled Future of Cinema

By Peter Rubin

The Big Story

When an Online Teaching Job Becomes a Window into Child Abuse

By Emily Tate Sullivan

The Big Story

Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe!

By Evan Ratliff

The Big Story

Inside the Bulletproof Coffee Guy’s New Body-Hacking Gym

By Natalie B. Compton

Science

Apollo 11: Mission Out of Control

By Stephen Witt

The Big Story

Fear, Misinformation, and Measles Spread in Brooklyn

By Amanda Schaffer

The Big Story

He Cyberstalked Teen Girls for Years—Then They Fought Back

By Stephanie Clifford

Business

Inside Backpage.com’s Vicious Battle With the Feds

By Christine Biederman

The Big Story

How Big Tech Will Get Help from the EU’s Far Right

By Darren Loucaides

Science

Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar Ambitions

By Ceridwen Dovey

The Big Story

The Quest to Make a Bot That Can Smell as Well as a Dog

By Sara Harrison

The Big Story

Why I (Still) Love Tech: In Defense of a Difficult Industry

By Paul Ford

Culture

Tech That Connects Us—and Makes Us Better Humans

By WIRED Staff

The Big Story

Inside China’s Massive Surveillance Operation

By Isobel Cockerell

The Big Story

'Walls Often Fail; They Have Unintended Consequences'

By Kenneth R. Rosen

The Big Story

‘If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys’

By Mara Hvistendahl

Transportation

Kitty Hawk, Flying Cars, and the Challenges of ‘Going 3D’

By Alex Davies

Culture

My Search for a Boyhood Friend Led to a Dark Discovery

By Douglas Preston

Transportation

LA’s Plan to Reboot Its Bus System—Using Cell Phone Data

By Adam Rogers

The Big Story

Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town

By Geoff Manaugh