The Universe May Contain 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought

The people who ate each other

Video: HD Footage of the Moon courtesy of Japan’s JAXA SELENE orbiter

Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors

New Room Found at Winchester Mystery House

How insect-eating plants persuade insects to pollinate them

Time warp: why uncertainty affects how we perceive time

What Dreams Are Like When You’re Blind

Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X’s In The Desert?

New findings suggest China and the West were in contact 1,500+ years before European Marco Polo arrived in China

Tick bites that trigger severe meat allergy on rise around the world

Chicxulub ‘dinosaur crater’ investigation begins in earnest

Documentary: Five black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989

Mars Astronauts Face Memory Loss, Anxiety And Long Term Brain Damage

NASA: Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality

Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster

Stem cells from one monkey regenerates the damaged heart of another monkey with no sign of rejection

25 New ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ Revealed

We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think?

1491: What the western hemisphere was like before Columbus ‘discovered’ it

These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth

Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad

Video: Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (full interview, March 2nd 1978)

In one German town, 1,000 people killed themselves in 72 hours

Six Scientists, 1,000 Miles, One Prize: The Arctic Bumblebee

Great, Mysterious Balls of Fire Speed by Dying Star

Return to the Teenage Brain

A teenager from the outskirts of Lima became an overnight sensation on a hit TV game show. Then, she disappeared.

Inside the Mind of an Angry Drunk

The Massacre at Monkey Hill

Brain training exercises just make you better at brain training exercises

How a Garbage Fire Could Lead to New Antibiotics

First farm to grow vegetables in a desert using only sun and seawater

Study: Men conceived through IVF may inherit father’s fertility problems

Planet in star system nearest our Sun ‘may have oceans’

Physicists Create World’s First ‘Time Crystal’

Code of Silence: A four-part series exposing a criminal gang operating inside the Chicago police department

Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

Meet the Ishmaels, America’s ‘worst’ family

Bees trained by scientists can teach each other new skills

Super Size: The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture

How Vera Rubin discovered dark matter

The Curious Case of Bermuda’s Mysterious Turtle

A bot crawled thousands of studies looking for simple math errors. The results are concerning.

Huge 3D scanning project lets you walk around a large Pompeii house before the volcano

Long-abandoned 1920s-era fire station found preserved under a UK factory

How Hollywood Gets Its Old-School Tech

Scientists Trace Society’s Myths to Primordial Origins

Interactive 3d comet exploration from ESA’s Rosetta

A home invasion, torture session, and high speed chase that ended with a suspect in nothing but an adult diaper

Our Part of the Milky Way Is Four Times Bigger Than We Thought

Space Art Propelled Scientific Exploration of the Cosmos—But Its Star is Fading Fast

The Golden Suicides

Video: The Art of Making a Nixie Tube (long, but interesting)

Does gum disease have a link to cancer, dementia, stroke?

“even organizations staffed by smart, seemingly moral people can slowly slide into dangerous and unethical behavior”

Yes, Beautiful People Have a Totally Different Experience of Life

Implication of sabotage adds intrigue to SpaceX investigation

NASA’s Fermi has found a binary system that breaks the record for luminosity

Photo: Shot taken by the Rosetta space probe shortly before intentionally crashing onto Comet 67p/c-g today