Mars research subjects to emerge after 8 months of isolation

Seeds in space – how well can they survive harsh, non-Earth conditions?

The Girl Gangs of El Salvador

How Hurricanes Threaten to Unleash Chemical Contamination

Making war illegal changed the world. But it’s becoming too easy to break the law

The language rules we know – but don’t know we know

Mystery of sonic weapon attacks at US embassy in Cuba deepens

RIP, Cassini: Historic Mission Ends with Fiery Plunge into Saturn

On this day in 1979, two families attempted to escape East Germany in a home-made hot-air balloon

Scientists Link ‘Cat Parasite’ to Common Human Neurological Disorders

Hubble observes pitch black planet

Inside India’s race to cool 1.3 billion people in a warming world

Follow Cassini’s final dive into Saturn with real-time stats and rendering

Weird World: Titanium Spied in Giant Alien Planet’s Skies

We Just Found 500-Million-Year-Old Fossils From The Earliest Complex Life on Earth

Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn [loss of contact expected Sept. 15 at 7:55 a.m. EDT]

Video: How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster – the SpaceX blooper reel

Mysterious lights in the sky seen after Mexico’s huge earthquake

Image: Flare Well AR2673

Bloodstained ice axe used to kill Trotsky emerges after decades in the shadows

Mathematicians Measure Infinities, Find They’re Equal

On this day in 1848, an iron rod shot through Phineas Gage’s skull and brain

The atmosphere is literally changing the food we eat, for the worse. And almost nobody is paying attention.

Flying Coach Is So Cramped It Could Be a Death Trap

Alarming Study Indicates Why Certain Bacteria Are More Resistant to Drugs in Space

Video: Abacus: The little-known story of the only U.S. bank prosecuted in relation to the 2008 financial crisis

Oldest kids in class do better – even into university: U of T study

To treat back pain, look to the brain not the spine

Cassini’s 10 best pictures from its 13-year voyage around Saturn

Pulsar Jackpot Reveals Globular Cluster’s Inner Structure

2,000-year-old baby bottle unearthed in Turkey’s Çanakkale

America’s secret role in the Rwandan genocide

Some Fatty Acids Tied to Brain’s Attention Network, Intelligence

Edgar Allan Poe Was a Broke-Ass Freelancer

‘Drunk’ tourist thought to be the first person to survive swim across Hoover Dam

“I went undercover in a Toronto factory where a temp worker died. Here’s what I found.”

The Sorrow and the Shame of the Accidental Killer

Has a Mysterious Medieval Code Really Been Solved

My brother’s killer is now my friend

NASA Funds Ultra-Thin Spacecraft for Clearing Space Junk

Astronomers spun up by galaxy-shape finding

Internal clock is discovered in a living human cell

Astronomers find fast-spinning ‘clocks in the sky’ using gaming tech

Farewell to the Greatest Space Mission of Our Time – NASA Cassini Spacecraft to Burn Up This Week

Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving

The world’s first permanent nuclear-waste repository is nearing completion

Creature From the Green Lagoon

On this day in 1973, an ambitious cybernetic experiment was prematurely terminated

Seven Days of Heroin

House flippers triggered the US housing market crash, not poor subprime borrowers

‘Plagiarists never do it once’: meet the sleuth tracking down the poetry cheats

Weathering a Hurricane in Prison

On this day in 1945, a chicken survived decapitation, and soon rose to national fame

First genetic proof that women were Viking warriors

Unearthed near Hadrian’s Wall: lost secrets of first Roman soldiers to fight the barbarians

Last Enceladus Plume Observation

Prying Apart the Mighty Bite of a Malaysian Trap-Jaw Ant

The mysterious origins of Europe’s oldest language

Pictures reveal Carlos the Jackal’s clandestine life in communist Prague

75 years ago today, one of the few WW2 attacks on the US mainland occurred