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Why fake punches in movies look real

Punching in movies, explained by someone getting punched repeatedly.

By Edward Vega

The two men who derailed Sudan’s revolution

Because of them, Sudan is at risk of falling into a civil war.

By Rajaa Elidrissi

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Why 25% of teens can’t answer this question

By Alvin Chang May 17

Why Palestinians protest every May 15

By Ranjani Chakraborty May 15

How A24 took over Hollywood

By Edward Vega May 12

Why Texas judges have so much power right now

By Adam Freelander May 11

Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?

By Christina Thornell May 4

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

An AI artist explains his workflow

By Phil Edwards May 2

How to fix clean energy’s storage problem

By Sam Ellis April 27

How TikTok dances trained an AI to see

By Phil Edwards April 25

The big problem with cement, and how to fix it

By Laura Bult April 20

The rise of artificial intelligence, explained

Can AI kill the greenscreen?

By Phil Edwards April 18

How solar energy got so cheap

By Liz Scheltens April 13

Why AI doesn’t speak every language

By Phil Edwards April 11

The Trump investigations you should actually care about

By Liz Scheltens April 10

The tricky plan for “negative emissions”

By Joss Fong April 6

Why AI art struggles with hands

By Phil Edwards April 4

Why China’s population is shrinking

By Christina Thornell March 28

How Western weapons transformed the war in Ukraine

By Sam Ellis March 24

Why the dyslexic brain is misunderstood

By Ranjani Chakraborty March 21

Ozempic is a game-changer. Here’s how it works.

By Coleman Lowndes March 14

Why Top Gun’s sound design is Oscar-worthy

By Edward Vega March 10

Why so many people need glasses now

By Christophe Haubursin March 7

Why kids don’t get as cold as adults do

By Edward Vega February 28

Why is everything getting so expensive?

By Liz Scheltens February 24

Vox journalist Alvin Chang sits at a table in a studio, surrounded by representations of the data he’s found on human heights over time.

How South Koreans got so much taller

By Alvin Chang February 23

A movie trailer editor deconstructs iconic trailers

By Phil Edwards February 17

How these buildings made the Turkey and Syria earthquakes so deadly

By Rajaa Elidrissi February 16

Russia’s private military force, explained

By Christina Thornell February 14

Why everything you buy is worse now

By Kimberly Mas February 9

The disastrous redesign of Pakistan’s rivers

By Ranjani Chakraborty and Laura Bult February 7

Why China is losing the microchip war

By Sam Ellis February 7

Why the Titanic didn’t have enough lifeboats

By Coleman Lowndes February 6

Actor Pete Davidson saying something, while the on-screen caption reads as a line of question marks.

Why we all need subtitles now

By Edward Vega January 20

2022, in 7 minutes

By Kimberly Mas December 27, 2022

A Christmas tree on a table. Why?

How Christmas trees stopped being just a German thing

By Phil Edwards December 23, 2022

How Iran’s repression machine works

By Christina Thornell December 22, 2022

The case to rename this famous Christmas plant

By Ranjani Chakraborty December 21, 2022

What it took to get reparations in New Zealand

By Fabiola Cineas December 15, 2022

A fact-checked debate about legal weed

By Joss Fong and Laura Bult December 15, 2022

How FIFA corruputed the World Cup

By Sam Ellis December 9, 2022