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Elon Musk's Mission to Mars

By Chris Anderson
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Inside the Mansion—and Mind—of the Net's Most Wanted Man

By Charles Graeber
Gear

Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth

By Mat Honan
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Apocalypse Not: Here's Why You Shouldn't Worry About End Times

By Matt Ridley
Security

The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)

By James Bamford

The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit

By Jason Tanz

Why Is This Cargo Container Emitting So Much Radiation?

By Andrew Curry
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Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion—Not a Holy War

By Jason Fagone
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Going, Going, Gone: Who Killed the Internet Auction?

By James Surowiecki
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Anthrax Redux: Did the Feds Nab the Wrong Guy?

By Noah Shachtman
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A University Researcher Was Denied Tenure—Then Turned to Murder

By Amy Wallace
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The Clever Math That Cracked the Scratch Code Lottery

By Jonah Lehrer
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The Incredible True Story of the Collar Bomb Heist

By Rich Schapiro
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Inside the Battle to Define Mental Illness

By Gary Greenberg
Science

Take a Tour of America's Most Toxic Town

By Ben Paynter
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The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet

By Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff
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Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

By Thomas Goetz
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Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists

By Steven Levy
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Art of the Steal: On the Trail of the World's Most Ingenious Thief

By Joshuah Bearman
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How the Inbred Lab Mouse Helps Reprogram the Human Genome

By Gary Wolf
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Time Your Attack: Oracle’s Lost Revolution

By Daniel Roth
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Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here's What Happened

By Evan Ratliff
Science

How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endanger Us All

By Amy Wallace
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I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle

By Mathew Honan
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