New research finds that kids aged 4-6 perform better during boring tasks when dressed as Batman

How Charlie Brown killed the aluminum Christmas tree

Mars atmosphere well protected from the solar wind

On this day in 1921, chronically catastrophic chemist Thomas Midgley found a way to poison the world

How to Tell If a Dinosaur Is Fake

Physicists excited by discovery of new form of matter, excitonium

Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving’s Story Explains Why

The strange interaction between brain injury and intestinal damage

The Earth Is Humming—Here’s What It Means

They thought that they’d found the perfect apartment. They weren’t alone. (2013)

Bizarre, Enormous 16th-Century Map Assembled for First Time

Slovenian spies stage “secret” strike to demand higher wages

Replay Apollo 17 radio and telemetry in real-time, 45 years after it occurred

Brain Remaps Itself in Child with Double Hand Transplant

Letters from World War II: The abandoned history of four brothers

Researchers find ‘oldest ever eye’ in fossil

Oldest Monster Black Hole Ever Found Is 800 Million Times More Massive Than the Sun

Imagining the Jellyfish Apocalypse

Millions Are Hounded for Debt They Don’t Owe. One Victim Fought Back, With a Vengeance

Brain abnormalities found in victims of US embassy attack in Cuba

360º video interactive: A city destroyed: 100 years after the Halifax Explosion

Banner Ladies: The Human Billboards of Yesteryear

Are exoskeletons the future of physical labor?

After 20 years, researcher presents the most complete Australopithecus fossil ever found

Why is Earth Magnetized and Venus Not?

100 years ago today a burning ship in Halifax harbor led to the largest human-caused explosion in the pre-nuclear era

How Neolithic farming sowed the seeds of modern inequality 10,000 years ago

New Evidence Points to Icy Plate Tectonics on Europa

All Things Iron from the Bronze Age Had Cosmic Origins

Portugal’s radical drugs policy is working. Why hasn’t the world copied it?

Bee research may redefine understanding of intelligence

The Greatest Leap, Part 1: How the Apollo fire propelled NASA to the Moon

Brainy Birds: Pigeons Can Understand Distance and Time

Bat cave solves mystery of deadly SARS virus — and suggests new outbreak could occur

Peregrine Falcons Attack Like Missiles To Grab Prey Midair, Scientists Find

101 years ago today the women of a small Oregon town took political matters into their own hands

Sweet as honey: the African killer bees providing a living in Liberia

The other Dodo: Extinct bird that used its wings as clubs

11-Year-Old Has Spent Her Life in Jail, a Serial Killer as a Cellmate

The Lure of a Better Life, Amid Cold and Darkness

The Scallop Sees With Space-Age Eyes — Hundreds of Them

The true story of the fake US embassy in Ghana

Woman With Transplanted Uterus Gives Birth, the First in the U.S.

Check out NASA’s latest Mars rover

Astronauts’ Core Body Temperature Increases on Extended Space Missions

‘This is a major discovery’: Explorers find massive ice-age cavern beneath Montreal

Study finds reading information aloud to yourself improves memory

On this day in 2008 a memorable gentleman passed away

Video: “Gorgeous Earth views from my spacewalk” by Randy Bresnik

‘Space blindness’ must be solved before mission to Mars, scientist says

Image: Juno photo of Jupiter’s clouds in striking shades of blue

The Great American Single-Family Home Problem

Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years

The Never-Ending Foreclosure

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

The Girl in the Window, 10 years later

‘A tale of decay’: the Houses of Parliament are falling down

Scientists discovered an ancient flying reptile Eden in China

An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo

Why a Generation in Japan Is Facing a Lonely Death