The Scientist Who Stumbled Upon a Tick Full of 20-Million-Year-Old Blood

Atmosphere around low-mass Super-Earth detected

NASA Unveils the Keys to Getting Astronauts to Mars and Beyond

Inflammation’s Link to Alzheimer’s, Heart Disease and Cancer

Seeing black holes and beyond

Scientists capture video of dolphins risking death to eat octopus

Kidnapped, tortured and thrown in jail: my 70 days in Sudan

Miami’s fight against rising seas

The Secret Lobotomy of Rosemary Kennedy

Artist who can “see” in UV thanks to an antenna-like implant

Why You Shouldn’t Walk on Escalators

Why more highly educated people are less into conspiracy theories

After almost 20 years in space, NASA’s Cassini begins its Grand Finale

How a Phony Online Boyfriend Scammed a 75-Year-Old Widow Out of $1 Million

The U.S. joined the ‘Great War’ 100 years ago. America and warfare were never the same.

Building In the Shadow of Our Own Destruction

Medieval villagers mutilated the dead to stop them rising, study finds

The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl

The kingdom of women: the Tibetan tribe where a man is never the boss

Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish?

Brain cancer patients live longer wearing electric cap designed to zap tumors

Dirty Birds: What it’s like to live with a national symbol

For 18 years, I thought she was stealing my identity. Until I found her

Why is it so hard to study anti-matter?

1,000-Year-Old Toy Viking Boat Unearthed in Norway

The tricks that help some animals live for centuries

Tunnels in South America believed to have been dug by extinct giant sloths

NASA’s $1 billion Jupiter probe just sent back breathtaking new images of the gas giant

Most of Mars’ air was ‘lost to space’

Little Tropical Fish With a Big, Venomous Bite

FBI Arrests Hacker Who Hacked No One

Everyone hates April Fools’ Day — so why does it endure?

Filming mosquitoes reveals a completely new approach to flight

A mysterious X-ray source became 1,000 times brighter over a few hours before fading dramatically in about a day

Forcing People At Vending Machines To Wait Nudges Them To Buy Healthier Snacks

Video: A full rotation of the moon, something we don’t get to see from here on Earth

The Trauma of Facing Deportation

After Dino-Killing Asteroid Impact, Life Re-Emerged Quickly

Why You Feel the Urge to Jump: The science and philosophy of looking down from a high place

The Genius of Pinheads: When Little Brains Rule​

Video: North Korean Defectors Struggle to Master Money

Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?

For the first time, we know what Tyrannosaur faces really looked like

Gruesome Wasp Named After Shape-Shifting ‘Star Trek’ Character

Sands of Titan may dance to their own static electricity

New Exoskeletons Will Harness the Subtle Anatomy of Human Balance

How a Floating Bale of Cocaine Led to the Florida Keys’ Worst Murder in Decades

After 100 years, a key postulate of the third law of thermodynamics has been proven

New study shows how impacts generated Martian tsunamis

Reader beware: Science covered in the news is pretty likely to be overturned

Bad Luck Causes Most Cancer, New Study Finds

The Great Nevada Lithium Rush to Fuel the New Economy

Encounters with Jupiter send asteroid on a bizarre backward spin

A world without retirement

Collecting metal: the inner and outer worlds of jewelry, coins, bullion bits, and odd shiny things

Photo: Nebula with Laser Beams

Paralysed man feeds himself with help of implants

What Really Turned the Sahara Desert From a Green Oasis Into a Wasteland?

Planet-sized ‘waves’ spotted in the Sun’s atmosphere

221-pound Canadian “coin” known as the Big Maple Leaf stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin