For weeks now, Zendaya and Robert Pattinsonhave been promoting their upcoming film The Drama (out in theaters today), and one question has hung over every appearance they’ve made: what, exactly, is ...

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In a new book, the Harvard scholar Marjorie Garber suggests how Americans targeted during the Red Scare used literature to confound their interrogators. By A.O. Scott When you purchase an ...

Trying to buy eggs can feel like you need a secret decoder ring. Cartons are covered in pictures of cute red barns and happy hens, with words like "Natural" and "Farm Fresh" everywhere. But what does ...

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A strange little magic puzzle that looks completely impossible. The sword links and unlinks in a way that shouldn’t be possible—yet the secret is hiding in plain sight. A fun visual mystery that will ...

Working with South African daisies, Colombian magnolias and Philippine coffee trees, botanists the world over are discovering the secrets to bringing extremely rare and threatened plants back from the ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red giant by listening to its celestial “song.” Subtle variations in the star’s ...

The creator of the Kryptos panels, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian. By John Schwartz John ...

A price has been set for one of the biggest secrets kept by the United States’ top spy agency: $962,500. That was the price reached at a Thursday auction of the solution to the last bit of the ...

Vanna White has seen it all during her 40-plus-year career as Wheel of Fortune co-host, including huge money wins, hilarious puzzle blunders, and big-name celebrity guests. However, there is still one ...