Scientists Tell Us What Would Happen If North Korea Detonated a Hydrogen Bomb Underwater

Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo

How a distressing movie or play can trigger a body to pass out

How banana skins turned on the lights in Lagos … and then turned them off again

Gravity may be created by strange flashes in the quantum realm

Teotihuacan: City of Water, City of Fire

Zealandia drilling reveals secrets of sunken lost continent

Scientists scout sub-surface settlement sites on the Moon and Mars

Stabbed or shot? Skipping the ambulance may be better for survival

The Coming Software Apocalypse

The Inside Story of the Great Silicon Heist

Without the Ozone Treaty You’d Get Sunburned in 5 Minutes

Exceptionally Preserved Ancient Ships Discovered in the Black Sea

Giant iceberg’s split exposes hidden ecosystem

The Anzac skull that tells a shocking and tragic story of battlefield violence

Video: Strange Continuity: Why Our Brains Don’t Explode at Film Cuts

Birds Beware: The Praying Mantis Wants Your Brain

What it’s like to spend 8 months on a fake Mars mission

Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures

The story of Hurricane Harvey, as told by 28 Texans who helped their state through its darkest hour.

The Untold Story of Kim Jong-nam’s Assassination

Leather, Grown in a Lab Without Cows

Scientists discover genes are controlled by ‘nano footballs’

Scientists spent a month terrifying guppies to prove that fish have personalities

Little Rock Nine: the day young students shattered racial segregation

Why the Last Snow on Earth May Be Red

Dogs Recognize Themselves in Test Based on Smell, Not Sight [autoplay video]

Netflix, Microsoft, and Google just quietly changed how the web works

Brothers in Arms: The Tragedy in Small-Town America

Nasa facility honors African American woman who plotted key space missions

Study: Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life

Neanderthal children were slow to grow up — just like modern kids

3D-printable synthetic muscle is three times stronger than you

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.

This hacker gained access to hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project

On this day in 1979, a nuclear bomb was detonated in the Indian Ocean…maybe

Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleeps

Cassini’s Final Full Image Of Saturn Before It Destroyed Itself Is Breathtaking

The correct way to be a cannibal

These Women Are the Last Thing Standing Between You and Nuclear War

The Spotlight Effect: How to Stop Being So Self Conscious All the Time

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

Access denied: wheelchair metro maps versus everyone else’s

How flying seriously messes with your mind

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason [mild spoilers for the book Seveneves]

This Is One of the Strangest Objects Ever Discovered in the Solar System

Shellfish Surprise: Common ‘Herbivore’ Dinosaur Found To Snack On Crustaceans

The Electronic Computers, Part 2: Colossus

A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can Learn

Video: The girl born with her heart outside her chest

Mysterious flesh-eating bacteria is raging in Australia

The Mysterious Origins of the Phrase ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’

Treasure Island: The Extraordinary Finds of an Amateur Diving Club in Holland

She told them she was Hugo Chavez’s ex-wife and worked in the White House. And she’d make them rich.

The problem for the world’s most expensive spice

Photo: Sandwiches for sale. London, 1972

Keepers of the Secrets

Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think

The boy who killed – and the mother who tried to stop him