The Verge

Selected articles:

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The space auction where a Sputnik model goes for $269,000

Kava, with caveats: is this popular psychoactive tea bad for your liver?

Who owns CRISPR — one of the most important genetic inventions of our time?

New migraine drugs promise relief — but at a steep price

To save money, my insurance company forced me to try drugs that didn’t work

These ocean plastic collectors might end up collecting more Silicon Valley money than trash

The scientists saving Hawaii's rarest plants need to be saved

You can pay $900 for a robot that won’t admit climate change is real

Uprooted: how climate change may kick off an artificial migration of trees

Your ears are cockroach heaven and that’s why they keep crawling in there

Falling into lava would be a pretty hot mess

When is the best time to eat a banana?

Sharks literally puke their guts out — here's why

Why do hoaxes go viral during natural disasters like Hurricane Harvey?

Sorry Twitter, this Greenland shark is not actually full of pee

ESSAYS

I know I won’t get sick, but I’m scared of public toilet seats anyway

My spirit lives with this Twitter account of Italians pissed off at bad food recipes

Puke, poop, and sweat: a ranking of New York City’s grossest attractions

What NASA's Golden Record taught me about humanity

CULTURE

Were dinosaurs as bulletproof as the one in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom?

How Italy’s Gianfranco Rosi made the stunning Oscar-nominated migrant doc Fire at Sea

Thanos’ plan in Avengers: Infinity War has historical precedent, but he applies it wrong

Rampage may stoke CRISPR fears, but scientists say it could be educational, too