In Hong Kong, a bed-sized cage can cost more per square foot than a Manhattan penthouse. Hong Kong has spent eight straight years ranked as the least ...

The internet's most notorious urban legend gets the fact-check treatment, and the verdict isn't kind to the story. For over a decade, the "Russian Sleep ...

A rare brain disorder turned two grown men back into children right before their parents' eyes. The Young Turks' segment "Adult Brothers Aging Backwards into ...

In a valley beneath Cairo's Mokattam Hills, a Coptic Christian community sorts the city's trash by hand and recycles more of it than any municipal contractor ...

Six thousand miles of water mains, a subway system older than the Model T, and a steam grid still venting through orange-and-white chimneys — Manhattan runs on ...

Yes Theory drove into California's Colorado Desert to find out if the "last free place in America" is really as lawless as its reputation suggests. Slab City ...

A neighborhood once branded the deadliest patch of the deadliest city on Earth now runs graffiti tours instead of gunfights. Yes Theory's trip into Comuna 13, ...

An 800,000-acre stretch of Utah desert has spent nearly eight decades hosting some of the most dangerous experiments in American military history. Roughly 85 ...

Every soldier who makes it through Army basic training has one memory in common: the moment their eyes, nose, and throat caught fire inside a sealed room full ...

Basic training didn't stop for the coronavirus — it just changed shape at Fort Benning. By late March 2020, the Army had confirmed six COVID-19 cases tied to ...

In Karachi, tap water runs for two hours every other week — everything else comes from a truck, and you pay whatever the driver asks. That was the reality ...

Mexico didn't invent the cocaine trade — it inherited it, and then perfected it. The Sky News explainer "How did Narcos take control of Mexico?" traces how a ...