A NASCAR Team Is Building The First Internal Combustion Engine To Go Into Outer Space

Robotic stingray powered by light-activated muscle cells

Should the United States Save Tangier Island From Oblivion?

HD 131399Ab: Scientists discover strange planet with three suns

Personal letters of luminaries offer insight into their work as much as their lives

The fatal hike that became a Nazi propaganda coup

Extreme Fossil Hunters Dig the Dirt in Antarctica

12,000-year-old human grave includes a leopard’s bone, an eagle’s wing, and an extra foot

Researchers find first living specimen of strange, deep-ocean-dwelling “ghost fish”

Mars may have once had lots of moons, but soon it will be down to just one

Pea plants demonstrate ability to ‘gamble’—a first in plants

New stem cell transplantation method may halt multiple sclerosis symptoms, but therapy comes with high risk

Ozone hole showing ‘first fingerprints of healing’

Tonight at 10:30 pm US Eastern time: Live Coverage of the Juno orbital insertion at Jupiter

Hundreds of genes seen sparking to life two days after death

Sun’s galactic journey linked to mass extinctions

New life form discovered in saliva is linked to human disease

End is nigh for Rosetta: Spacecraft will meet its end by crashing into a comet

Video: Scientists Capture First-Ever Tiger Shark Sonogram

Short film from the U.S. War Department, 1947: Don’t Be a Sucker

Escape Tunnel, Dug by Hand, Is Found at Holocaust Massacre Site

Memphis Meats has successfully grown real, authentic tasting meat from animal stem cells.

New report from Harvard: Five U.S. prosecutors are responsible for 440 death sentences (PDF)

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