These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter

Ancient Cave Paintings in Chile Have Been Irreversibly Damaged by Graffiti

Fat Leonard’s Crimes on the High Seas

The voices of ancient women

An inside look at how Sweden is building the world’s second-longest tunnel

Genes have a role in empathy, study says

The Weird World Inside a Pitcher Plant

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

A ghost island in the middle of the Indian Ocean

The Hubble Space Telescope Captured This Beautiful Image of Two Galaxies Merging

Inside the Colorado Vault That Keeps Your Favorite Foods From Going Extinct

You Can Have Emotions You Don’t Feel

Why Do We Even Wear Pants? 

The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers

The movie star who doubled as a groundbreaking inventor

Watch the High-Flying Physics of a Plant’s Exploding Fruits

Is vitamin D really a cure-all – and how should we get our fix?

FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites

Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression

AI Has a Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough to Fix

Operation Bayonet: Inside the Sting That Hijacked an Entire Dark Web Drug Market

The Killers of Kiev: How Putin Created an Assassin’s Metropolis

Alien atmospheres recreated on Earth

Scientists control tiny ‘factories’ in engineered cells

Clocks are running slow across Europe because of an argument over who pays the electricity bill

How do 11 people go to jail for one murder?

Hawaii: Where Evolution Can Be Surprisingly Predictable

Daylight Saving Time is literally killing us

On this day in 1974 WW2 finally ended for Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda

Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the immortal mysteries she created

The Fish That Makes Other Fish Smarter

Can we bring hearts back from the dead?

Cells eat and regurgitate your tattoos

Rome’s Subway Project Keeps Digging Up Archaeological Marvels

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Kid

Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries

Super-deep diamond provides first evidence in nature of Earth’s fourth most abundant mineral

The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

Mapping the genome jungle: Unique animal traits could offer insight into human disease

Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals

Deep gas bands, shapely cyclones — NASA’s Juno reveals more of Jupiter’s secrets

The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t

Every Year, the Swiss Cover Their Melting Glaciers in White Blankets

The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

Iconic Stellar Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought

Arctic has warmest winter on record: ‘It’s just crazy, crazy stuff’

Sunken World War II Aircraft Carrier Found by Deep-Sea Expedition (autoplay video)

Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun

LSD alters the neural response to music in a number of brain regions, study finds

Election Polls Improved With One Question: Who Will Your Friends Vote For?

New Study: Cognitive Benefits of Bilingualism Overstated

China’s Tiangong-1 space station will crash to Earth within weeks

Does a Hacker Hero Always Have to Have a Past?

A Mysterious Anomaly Under Africa Is Radically Weakening Earth’s Magnetic Field

New Giant Viruses Further Blur the Definition of Life

World-first firing of air-breathing electric thruster

Something Mysterious Is Killing Captive Gorillas

Only Dark Matter (And Not Modified Gravity) Can Explain The Universe

US Navy to deploy high-energy lasers in two years

Exotic animals disappear from Florida wildlife sanctuary after fake ad