Why the Rich Don’t Give to Charity

Antarctic’s never-frozen Blood Falls has new explanation

Video: Beautiful close-up footage of today’s SpaceX first stage rocket landing

Video: A 750-Year-Old Secret: See How Soy Sauce Is Still Made Today

The strange death, and even stranger life of “Cocaine Cowboy” Andrew Carter Thornton II

NASA’s meteorite-resistant space fabric is like futuristic chainmail

Conspiracy Theorists May Really Just Be Lonely

The Living Disappeared: Searching for the children kidnapped during Argentina’s military dictatorship

‘Anumeric’ People: What Happens When a Language Has No Words for Numbers?

Why Wisdom Teeth Are So Much Trouble

Is Dark Matter “Fuzzy”?

How a Daughter’€™s Search for Her Biological Father Led Her to an Execution in Arkansas

Is The Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct?

Long after their bones were gone, Neanderthals’ DNA survived in cave

Female dragonflies fake sudden death to avoid male advances

The Nazi Who Infiltrated National Geographic

NASA is running out of spacesuits and it could jeopardize future missions

Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets

Study: Girls whose maternal grandmothers smoked during pregnancy 67% more likely to display autistic traits

Elite social media: where the internet’s 1 percent hangs out

Hippos Can’t Swim—So How Do They Move Through Water?

Scientists found a no-frills way to build on Mars (autoplay video)

3 New Bridges Rise in New York, With Looks That Could Stop Traffic

Study: Early organic carbon got deep burial in mantle

The island with £100 million hidden

‘Giant Hurricane’ on Saturn: 1st Images Back from Cassini’s Epic Ring Dive (autoplay video)

When the Hell Will We Find Planet Nine?

A Pickpocket’s Tale: The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins (2013)

Forced Confessions: A Victoria homicide case puts the spotlight on police interrogations

130,000-year-old mastodon skeleton in America appears to have been butchered by protohumans

31 Years Later, the Lights Come Back on in Chernobyl [actually Pripyat]

Chinese and European space agencies discuss collaborating on a moonbase

Fitbit fitness tracker cracks Connecticut murder case

Cassini Spacecraft Starts Weaving Between Saturn And Its Rings

How the Discovery of Two Lost Ships Solved an Arctic Mystery

Norwegian scientists speculate regarding the inspiration behind ‘The Scream’

‘World’s oldest fungus’ raises evolution questions

Astrophysicists study ‘rejuvenating’ pulsar in a neighboring galaxy

Why do your musical tastes get frozen over in your twenties?

Is Every Speed Limit Too Low?

The Giant Sea Mammal That Went Extinct in Less Than Three Decades

Exercise ‘keeps the mind sharp’ in over-50s, study finds

I Got Hacked So You Don’t Have To

A lab has successfully gestated premature lambs in artificial wombs. Are humans next?

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