Parasite living inside fish eyeball controls its behaviour

First results from Jupiter probe show huge magnetism and storms

‘Exercise-in-a-pill’ boosts athletic endurance by 70 percent

The BMW Addiction That Completely Destroyed This Man’s Life

Printing bricks from moondust using the sun’s heat

Video: How an optical illusion can make some phenomena appear to exceed the speed of light

Antibody Makes Alzheimer’s Protein Detectable in Blood

A Rare Journey Into the Cheyenne Mountain Complex, a Super-Bunker That Can Survive Anything

How the Tension Between Mercy and Blame Shaped Our Legal Codes

There Is a Fake ID God, and He Lives in China

Scientists Find Giant Wave Rolling Through the Perseus Galaxy Cluster

The Shipping and Handling of a Gigantic Space Telescope

Where oil rigs go to die

Why You’re Biased About Being Biased

Scientists Just Found a Completely New Kind of Symbiotic Relationship

Two Fungal Species Cooperate To Synthesize An Antibiotic

CERN points giant magnet at the Sun to look for dark matter particles

SOFIA Confirms Nearby Planetary System is Similar to Our Own

CRISPR eliminates HIV-1 infection in live animals

Cassini Finds ‘The Big Empty’ Close to Saturn

Astronomers discover a rare star full of calcium, but no clear origin

Dwarf planetary systems will transform the hunt for alien life

How Two Mississippi College Students Fell in Love and Decided to Join a Terrorist Group

Self-proclaimed (but never confirmed) ‘oldest human’ dies in Indonesia, claimed age 146

Clues as to why cockroaches are so prolific

Incorrigible Sin: The story of a seventeenth-century fornication trial in Massachusetts Bay

The Accidental Get Away Driver: How one man drove right into the center of a daring and dangerous crime

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