The Lost Giant of American Literature

If we start deliberately cooling the Earth, we may not be able to stop

50 years ago today North Korea seized the Pueblo

German astrophysicists use LIGO data to reveal the maximum size a neutron star can grow

Apollo 5: The First Flight of the Lunar Module

This NASA spacecraft will get closer to the sun than anything ever before

How roosters protect themselves from their own deafening crows

Fresh air for sale

Yacob and Amo: Africa’s precursors to Locke, Hume and Kant

The Plan to Save an Iconic Natural Monument By Covering It in Plastic

After the rescue: what does the future hold for California’s Turpin children?

Researchers learn the social function of babies’ babbling

Biofilms: the ultimate survival mechanism

Pentagon Document Confirms Existence of Russian Doomsday Torpedo

Fermented shark, anyone?

The Automotive Liberation of Paris

The U.S. Fertility Rate Is Down, Yet More Women Are Mothers

Putting Ancient Recipes on the Plate

Space mining is going to seriously disrupt Earth’s economy. And we’re nowhere near ready for the shock

What Happens to Astronauts During a Government Shutdown?

‘They ensure each twin baby dies’: the secret killings in central Nigeria

U.S. tests nuclear power system to sustain astronauts on Mars

The Man Trying to Fix Mount Everest’s Towering Poop Problem

Scientists Edge Closer To A Blood Test To Detect Cancers

Complex engineering and metal-work discovered beneath ancient Greek ‘pyramid’

Why Walkable Streets are More Economically Productive

Why Did Two-Thirds of These Weird Antelope Suddenly Drop Dead?

The Women Who Took on the Mafia

CIA rendition flights from rustic North Carolina called to account by citizens

Gallery: The Beauty of Webb Telescope’s Mirrors

Will Cape Town be the first city to run out of water?

The fabulous story of North Korea’s fabric made of stone

Can Art Help People Develop Empathy?

Cassini Finds Saturn Moon Has ‘Sea Level’ Like Earth

Man convicted of theft in 1976 cleared after Googling his arresting officer

World’s biggest underwater cave found in Mexico

How Close Are We to Self-Destruction?

How Dirt Could Save Humanity From an Infectious Apocalypse

Do You Have The Right To Plead Not Guilty When Your Lawyer Disagrees?

From Nazi Germany to Australia: The Incredible True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey

Kazakhstan Cheers New Alphabet, Except for All Those Apostrophes

No evidence to support link between violent video games and behaviour

The Reality of Color Is Perception

50 Years Later, It Feels Familiar: How America Fractured in 1968

Black Death ‘spread by humans not rats’

Why Do Cartoon Villains Speak in Foreign Accents?

Creative thought has a pattern of its own, brain activity scans reveal

Gut bacteria linked to cataclysmic epidemic that wiped out 16th-century Mexico

The best way of looking at the brain is from within

Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

She ran from the cut, then helped thousands of others escape female genital mutilation

How many dimensions are there, and what do they do to reality?

Video: A 3D journey through the Orion Nebula

Chinese ‘rainbow dinosaur’ had iridescent feathers like hummingbirds

99 years ago today a massive molasses tank exploded in Boston

Everyday Soviet Nostalgia

How an industry-breaking bug stayed secret for seven months — and then leaked out

Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting?

What It Felt Like in Hawaii When Warning of an In-Bound Missile Arrived

Tiny dinosaur that roamed ‘lost world’ between Australia and Antarctica identified