Crumb-free bread will mean ISS astronauts can now bake in space

In major breakthrough, tiny Utah firm regenerates skin, hair in pigs

A nuanced rebuttal to the recent claim that the Wow! signal was caused by comets

‘Faceless’ Fish Seen for First Time in Over a Century

Large numbers of humpback whales have returned to NYC for the first time in a century

3 Separate Experiments Report Signs of a Phenomenon Beyond The Standard Model of Physics

The Impossible Mathematics of the Real World

The Benefits of Talking to Yourself

For the first time in ~200 years, a Japanese emperor plans to resign

The Addicts Next Door

‘I Fooled Wall Street and the Mafia as an Undercover FBI Agent’

Baby Bird from Time of Dinosaurs Found Fossilized in Amber

Astronomers saw one star warp another’s light in a way that Einstein thought we’d never see

Newly discovered fossils show Homo sapiens emerged at least 100,000 years earlier than previously thought

Tyrannosaurus rex had scaly skin and wasn’t covered in feathers, a new study says

Tiny Jumping Spiders Can See the Moon

How the D-Day Invasion Was Planned

Mysterious ‘Wow! signal’ in 1977 came from comets, not aliens, researcher reveals

Video: 4K aerial footage of SpaceX CRS-11 first stage landing

Photos: American Nazis in the 1930s—The German American Bund

How to fall to your death and live to tell the tale

Marsupial lions, giant kangaroos and huge lizards: The treasures of the Naracoorte Caves

On this day in 1979, Russian scientists broke the world record for the deepest borehole

The expected and unexpected physiological effects of intermittent fasting

Giant ringed planet may have been spotted as it eclipses its host star

These nine cognitive psychology findings all passed a stringent test of their replicability

First Discovery for ‘Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’ Project: Cold Brown Dwarf

Scientists Discover A Scorched Planet With A Comet-Like Tail

When these 19th century farmers wanted to talk about sex, they just invented a new language

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter observes a curious feature: a South Polar Pit or an Impact Crater

A new carbon-capture system just began pulling CO2 from the air

The Secret History of “Eeny Meeny Miny Mo”

China’s new submarine engine is poised to revolutionize underwater warfare

Researchers have deciphered the code of how faces are recognized in primate brains

The strange Cook pine trees that always lean towards the equator

Climber Completes the Most Dangerous Rope-Free Ascent Ever

Trying to Embrace a ‘Cure’

On this day in 2004, the Killdozer emerged

How the World’s Most Interesting Man Befriended the World’s Most Powerful Man

Curiosity rover finds its crater was habitable for 700 million years

Image: Jupiter in extremely high resolution from the Juno spacecraft (11,177×11,177)

Researchers find that water does have a taste, detected by sour receptors

Inside the quietest place on Earth

World-First Trials Have Been Launched to Treat Parkinson’s And Blindness With Embryonic Stem Cells

How to rob a bank, according to economics

A 360 degree panorama from Curiosity rover showing nighttime on Mars

What Happens Between Before and After: A rarely seen side of plastic surgery

39 years ago this month, a skyscraper architect realized his builders had made a huge mistake

NASA Orbiter Finds New Evidence of Frost on Moon’s Surface

Anxiety makes reading facial expressions harder, study suggests

Gravitational Waves Felt From Black-Hole Merger 3 Billion Light-Years Away

Hidden Away for 28 Years, Tiananmen Protest Pictures See Light of Day

The Key to Saving Somalia is Gathering Dust in the British Countryside

Paul Allen showed off his new rocket-launching plane today, and it’s BIG

Why does deception weigh so heavily on our minds? Psychologists may have an answer

Touching the Sun: NASA Mission Renamed ‘Parker Solar Probe’

Inside the Plot to Steal Soviet Planetary Data

The Spider Web That Gets Stronger When It Touches Insects

Mummy DNA shows that the ancients don’t have much in common with modern Egyptians

Our obsession with calories can be traced back 100 years — and it hides a bigger problem