NASA and ESA join forces to build life-seeking Europa lander

The Mystery of ‘Venus’s Hair’ After a Volcanic Eruption

Elephant sharks, commonly served as fish & chips in New Zealand, may hold clues to human DNA

Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting biodegradable solution to plastic pollution

When a “rockstar researcher” is caught p-hacking, a scientific field is in crisis

Astronomers Say We’ll Probably Find Life Orbiting a Dwarf Star

Inside the Hunt for the Source of a Mysterious Cosmic Burst

UK has first coal-free power day since the Industrial Revolution

How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Nazi-looted painting to be auctioned as owners’ heirs fail to halt sale

The world’s first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in Ghana, Kenya, and Malawi starting in 2018

Exploding Sea Cucumber Butt Threads Are a New Material

The Troubling Link Between Springtime Allergies and Suicide

Archaeologists believe ancient symbols carved into stone depict a comet impact in 11,000 BC

The Quest to Kill the Superbug That Can Survive in Outer Space

The Incredible Rise and Fall of High-Flying Art Scammers Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi

Found: A Unique, Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence

Stop Worrying That You Worry Too Much

Long video playlist: Master shipwright Louis Sauzedde builds a work skiff starting from raw lumber

Gorgeous high res photo of Saturn’s moon Enceladus (5000 x 6309)

Video: A 3D reconstruction of ancient inner Rome for its 2,700th birthday

Scientists get a rare view of a type Ia supernova magnified 50 times

Watch Lilium’s successful test flight of the world’s first electric VTOL jet

How a Single Gene Could Become a Volume Knob for Pain

Neuralink and the Brain’s Magical Future

In case you missed it on Wednesday: The Damn Interesting 2017 Super-Fun-Time* Reader/Listener Survey is finally here! You know you wanna.

A big patch of plastic garbage has been discovered in the Arctic

NASA Image Shows Earth Between the Rings of Saturn (a modern version of Sagan’s “pale blue dot”)

Researchers unlock an immunity ’black box’

Naked mole-rats are now even weirder: Without oxygen, they live like plants

Discovery May Help Decipher Ancient Inca String Code

Antarctic Scientists Go Chasing Waterfalls

Musings on the origins of language, a rare bit of non-fiction from author Cormac McCarthy

Radar images of asteroid 2014 JO25, which passed within 1.8 million kilometers of Earth yesterday

A Georgia State anthropologist explores what motivated rescuers during the Rwandan genocide

Every Kid Can Enjoy a Day at the Waterpark With This Air-Powered Wheelchair

102 villagers, 750 refugees, one grand experiment

The Damn Interesting 2017 Super-Fun-Time* Reader/Listener Survey is finally here!

Why high potentials struggle—and how they can grow through it

Newfound Alien Planet Is Best Place Yet to Search for Life (autoplay video)

Our Machines Now Have Knowledge We’ll Never Understand

The case for being grumpy at work

Mummies discovered in ancient tomb near Egypt’s Luxor

Landslides on Ceres reflect hidden ice

Psychedelic drugs induce ‘heightened state of consciousness’, brain scans show

Opening of UN files on Holocaust will ‘rewrite chapters of history’

Patricia Cornwell Investigates Jack the Ripper

Steve Ballmer Serves Up a Fascinating Data Trove

Console Repairmen Explain Why Cockroaches Love PS4s

Our ability to think in a random way peaks at 25 then declines

Hole accidentally cut in U.K. museum floor reveals stairs to hidden tomb of five archbishops

Scientists find giant, elusive clam known as ‘the unicorn of mollusks’

Finally, NASA has its universe of images in one happy, searchable place

Can We Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon?

Receding glacier causes immense Canadian river to vanish in four days

How One Inmate Changed The Prison System From The Inside

22,000 years of history evaporates after freezer failure melts Arctic ice cores

The “True” Human Diet: From the standpoint of paleoecology, the so-called Paleo diet is a myth

Researchers find ‘night owl’ gene variant