Why Nature Prefers Hexagons: Geometric rules behind fly eyes, honeycombs, and soap bubbles.

Inside the Elaborate Web Presence of the Government’s Fake University

The Future of Technology Is Hiding on the Ocean Floor

The Race to Turn Gassy Hydrogen into Solid Metal

Bullet indicates Lawrence of Arabia was no liar

Rage Disorder Linked with Parasite Found in Cat Feces

Bizarre fossil hauled its offspring around ‘like kites’

Study: Blacks with no criminal record have same success getting job offers as whites just out of prison.

Previously unseen video of an infamous British spy describing his career as a Soviet agent.

Study: Lack of sunlight not the important causal mechanism in ‘seasonal affective disorder.’

Why Google Maps Shows You Different Borders, Depending On Where You Are

Gastroenterologists create tiny sensor to analyze flatulence to monitor health.

Only one Norse settlement known in North America, but archaeologists may have found another.

A strange, sad story: The ballad of Fred and Yoko

Photo: Curiosity rover looks back and captures an image of a Martian dust devil.

Rats learn to sense infrared in hours thanks to brain implants

New body parts 3D printed for damaged corpses by funeral home

Where might Planet Nine be hiding?

Newly Discovered Star Has an Almost Pure Oxygen Atmosphere

Why are we eternally fascinated by serial killers?

How to Hack an Election – the story of Andrés Sepúlveda

What life is like after police ransack your house — then the charges are dropped

Ancient fossil was ‘nearly a spider’

Study: Ant antennae are both receivers and broadcasters.

Researchers Identify Virus and Two Types of Bacteria as Major Causes of Alzheimer’s

Wound healing could be enhanced with modified maggots

Extinct ‘Siberian unicorn’ may have lived alongside humans, fossil suggests

Study: Moon Moved from Its Original Axis 3 Billion Years Ago

In 1961, the Beatles played a show for just 18 people.

Animation illustrating the tiny speck of sky represented in the famous Hubble Deep Field

Video: “Horrible Jargon We Got Used To” gives examples of the evolution of language.

Woodpeckers carry wood-eating fungi that may help them dig holes

Two men entered the ring for their first professional fight. Then something went wrong.

The Deadly Consequences of Solitary With a Cellmate

When a fishing boat sank in the middle of the night, 47 were stranded in 32-degree swells.

From daredevil to chicken: Scientists find off-switch for risky behavior

Moons of Saturn may be younger than the dinosaurs

Scientists say Shakespeare’s skull may be missing from grave

Three Cool Things We’ve Learned From NASA’s Mars Gravity Map

Study: People with similar mental behaviors tend to move their bodies in similar ways.

The Enduring Mystery Of ‘Jawn’, Philadelphia’s All-Purpose Noun

After 95 years, a Navy ship lost at sea with all hands is finally discovered

The Story Behind GM’s Celebrated ‘Damsels of Design’

Animation: High contrast image of the hexagonal storm on Saturn’s north pole.

Scientists have created a synthetic organism that has only the genes it needs to survive.

Why watching comb jellies poop has stunned evolutionary biologists

Video: Will This Solve Organ Transplant Rejection Forever?

Why smart people are better off with fewer friends

Study: Baby monkeys grow faster to avoid being killed by adult males

NASA Study Finds Climate Change Shifting Wine Grape Harvests in France and Switzerland

Astronomers see supernova shockwave for first time

HD 20782b: Astronomers Discover Exoplanet with Highly Eccentric Orbit

Astronomers just discovered a new type of galaxy called ‘super spirals’

Video: Step inside the Large Hadron Collider (360º tour, click and drag video to change view angle)

Food Allergy transferred to patient following Bone Marrow Transplant.

NASA’s New Horizons scientists have released papers that shed new light on the Pluto System

What Death Row Inmates Say in Their Last Words

Neanderthal Diet: 80% Meat, 20% Fruit, Veggies

Hubble telescope spies stellar ‘land of giants’

MIT scientists find evidence that Alzheimer’s ‘lost memories’ may one day be recoverable