Why bad ideas refuse to die

The Fugitive, His Dead Wife, and the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory That Explains Everything

The Curse of the Loyal Sports Fan

What Happened When A Plane Loaded with 6,000 Pounds of Pot Crashed in Yosemite

Rare Dinosaur-Era Bird Wings Found Trapped in Amber

Cooperation emerges when groups are small and memories are long, study finds

Oddly ominous video from NASA regarding Juno’s upcoming Jupiter Orbit Insertion

Spectacular VLT images of Jupiter presented just days before the arrival of Juno spacecraft

Studying coral’s moonlight sex offers hope for dying reefs

Study: Hairs, feathers, and scales share a common evolutionary ancestry

Experiments confirm that the barium-144 nucleus is pear shaped

Why hot climate fuels aggression, violence

Archaeologists Are Spotting Ancient Ruins in Cold War Spy Photos

Pretty pink snow actually a terrible sign for glaciers

When Kodak Accidentally Discovered A-Bomb Testing

Confessions of a Payday Lender: “I Felt Like a Modern-Day Gangster”

Scientists are finally figuring out why you only get mitochondrial DNA from your mum

Does Pluto Harbor an Ocean Under All That Ice?

Dutch crops grown on ‘Mars’ soil found safe to eat

Is Middle America Due For a Huge Earthquake?

A Cautionary Tale of ‘Stem Cell Tourism’

How Science Is Putting a New Face on Crime Solving (warning: brief autoplay music)

Why extremely rare events keep happening all the time

New Life Found That Lives Off Electricity

The secret of taste: why we like what we like

Sunken village re-emerges during intense drought

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Wednesday launched a record 20 satellites

Scientists crack mystery of Venus’s vanished water

Silicon Valley’s Bloody Plant Burger Smells, Tastes And Sizzles Like Meat

The Bears Who Came to Town and Would Not Go Away

The Ghosts of Fukushima

Hot jupiter planet orbiting newborn star surprises scientists

On The Internet, The World’s Diversity Of Languages Is Completely Absent

Today’s teens smoke less, drink less, and have sex less than any teens on record

Inside a photon prison, a light-and-matter hybrid is born

A crime is nothing if you can’t get away

United States of Paranoia: They See Gangs of Stalkers

Film, 1967: The Home Of The Future.

Unknown alien rock found in Swedish quarry

Video: Visualization of atmospheric CO2 levels throughout the year

Earth’s New ‘Quasi’ Moon Will Stick Around for Centuries

The FDA has approved a device that drains a portion of stomach contents after every meal.

True Crime: When an author’s violent novel eerily resembles an unsolved murder.

A rare, risky mission is underway to rescue sick scientists from the South Pole

Neurons that interpret vision can swap eyes, switch back

The very strange provenance of a supposedly ancient scrap of Christian manuscript

A Second Confirmed Source of Gravitational Radiation

A new “dark sky atlas” suggests that light pollution is making darkness a scarce resource.

Study: Cats understand physics and the law of cause and effect

A bright disruption in Saturn’s narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently

We Finally Know What Causes Volcanic Lightning

The Reader Is the Protagonist: Exiting a Horror Story

Brain-to-Brain Communication Is Closer Than You Think

Carbon nanotubes too weak to get a space elevator off the ground

Study: Taking snapshots tends to make experiences feel more engaging, not less.

NASA Kepler discovers a planet with two suns

Mongolia is changing all its addresses to three-word phrases

Inside the underground economy propping up New York City’s food carts

Generations of macaques used stone tools to open oysters, nuts

Revealed: Cambodia’s vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle