Uncovering the Exposome: An Emerging Field Casts a Wide Net

Hundreds of Mysterious Giant Viruses Discovered Lurking in The Ocean

Scientists are redefining time itself, starting with the second

Bats Don’t Get Cancer—and That Could Be a Big Deal for Humans

How Medieval Monks and Scribes Helped Preserve Classical Culture

A Skull Washed Up on a Beach 30 Years Ago. Students Just ID’ed the Remains.

Benzene at 200

In 1965, Six Boys Were Stranded on a Deserted Island for 15 Months, and They All Survived

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

‘It involved the Mafia, Freemasonry and the Vatican’: The mysterious murder of ‘God’s Banker’

Is Gravity Just Entropy Rising? Long-Shot Idea Gets Another Look.

Local Malls Are Sitting Empty, and Becoming a Headache for Small Towns

Personalized brain stimulation may treat depression effectively

Fake bands and artificial songs are taking over YouTube and Spotify

Mathematicians Hunting Prime Numbers Discover Infinite New Pattern for Finding Them

Taiwan’s epic train ride through 50 tunnels and 77 bridges

Hungry Bacteria Hunt Their Neighbors With Tiny, Poison-Tipped Harpoons

DARPA sets new records for sending power wirelessly

JWST spies frigid alien world on bizarre orbit: ‘One of the coldest, oldest and faintest planets that we’ve imaged to date’

Mysterious link between Earth’s magnetism and oxygen baffles scientists

How Steelworkers Stopped a Paramilitary Movement

The Man Who Unsolved a Murder

Considering History: Taking Pride in LGBTQ+ Americans in Our Armed Forces

That ‘unsubscribe’ button may be a scam

‘There’s a huge amount that we don’t understand’: Why sperm is still so mysterious

We finally know the recipe for 5,000-year-old Egyptian blue dye

New model helps to figure out which distant planets may host life

Europe’s Plan for Faster Space Travel

Soaring Temperatures Threaten Crops, So Scientists Are Looking to Alter the Plants

This Altered State of Consciousness Feels Like Magic—And It Could Be What Humans Are Made For

Meet The Bird That Soars Higher Than Commercial Airplanes

The ‘Holy Grail of Shipwrecks’ Is Still Underwater. So Is Its $17 Billion Fortune.

Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica

What Happens When Clergy Take Psilocybin

A Son, a Scientist, and the Secret of Bioluminescence

A map, a myth and a pre-Incan lagoon: the man who brought water back to a drought-ridden town

How the Squid Eye Mastered Sight in the Deep Ocean Through Evolution

Is Google about to destroy the web?

Blades of Grass Under a Microscope Look Like a Bunch of Smiling Faces

This week: Universal blood, medieval murders, mosquito vice, and more!

Each Person Has a Unique ‘Breath Print,’ Scientists Find

Video: Inside a Famous Architect’s Workshop Built From the Arizona Desert [20:35]

On this day in 1942, Nazi spies infiltrated the US via a submarine off Long Island

Did animals provide the blueprints for human culture?

Fiery Orange Gems From The Moon Reveal Secrets of Its Violent Past

Terraforming Mars: Scientists Reveal the 3-Step Plan to Breathe Life Into a Dead Planet

How Big Pharma Intentionally Misleads Patients About the Efficacy of Their Products

How the Passenger in Seat 11A Became the Only Survivor of the Air India Plane Crash

Extremely Lifelike Dolls Cause a Frenzy in Brazil

Three Stages of Planetary Defense for Asteroid Threats

An Indigenous nation in Canada hails historic constitution: ‘We’re now the architects of certainty for ourselves’

What Submersibles Reveal About the Violent Underbelly of the Human Psyche

The science behind the smell of rain

World first: brain implant lets man speak with expression — and sing

One Thousand Years of Domelessness

Video: What Happened to Titanic’s Surviving Crew After the Sinking? [27:30]

Jacques Pépin: Our Food Reflects Our History

How Exactly Did Hunter-Gatherers Sleep? On Rest and Relaxation in the Prehistoric Era

Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time

European probe snaps first images of the sun’s south pole