Excitement as trial shows Huntington’s drug could slow progress of disease

Tasmanian tiger genome offers clues to its extinction

Industrial Revolution left a damaging psychological ‘imprint’ on today’s populations

Centuri Aztarac: Finding THE Holy Arcade Grail Part 1

How ISIS Produced Its Cruel Arsenal on an Industrial Scale

Astronomers to Check Mysterious Interstellar Object for Signs of Technology

NASA To Make Big Reveal On Thursday: Kepler Scores Major Breakthrough With The Help Of AI

How Forensic DNA Evidence Can Lead to Wrongful Convictions

On this day in 1996, a professor published groundbreaking research on evolvable hardware

The potato’s role in the global dominance of white people

Is There a Limit to Scientific Understanding?

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