Boy unearths treasure of the Danish king Bluetooth in Germany

Nationwide hunt for grandmother accused of killing her husband — and then her look-alike

The Sad, Sad Story of Laika, the Space Dog, and Her One-Way Trip into Orbit

It’s time to rebuild the web

On the Ground During Cape Town’s Water Crisis

The Planet That Took Us Beyond the Solar System

NASA Rejected Astronaut Mike Massimino Thrice Before Finally Offering Him His Dream Job

Why Are Bananas, Nuts, and Crackers the Only Foods That Say ‘Crazy’?

Study: Ketamine has ‘fast-acting benefits’ for depression

Belgium comes to terms with ‘human zoos’ of its colonial past

The Plunging Morale of America’s Service Members

Can We Please Stop Talking About Generations as if They Are a Thing?

‘It’s going to happen’: is the world ready for war in space?

Why We Engage in Tribalism, Nationalism, and Scapegoating

Hackers stole a casino’s high-roller database through a thermometer in the lobby fish tank

On this day in 1975 Patty Hearst robbed a bank

The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design

‘There is no such thing as past or future’: physicist Carlo Rovelli on changing how we think about time

A Brief History of Hysteria: In search of a cure for the outspoken woman

Self-Defense, Soviet Style

All of the World’s Yeast Probably Originated in China

How NASA’s Planet-Hunting TESS Telescope Will Find Habitable Worlds

Nanobots Glide Through Living Cells

The man who hunts ‘hidden’ radioactive objects

Trillions Upon Trillions of Viruses Fall From the Sky Each Day

Ancient Shark Fishermen Found Buried with Extra Limbs

This 1,000-Year-Old Shirt Has a $700,000 Story to Tell

Finding Dmitry: The Magical Story Of A Russian Boy’s Photos

A physical constant’s value shouldn’t depend on how you measure it

Never Solved, a College Dorm Fire Has Become One Man’s Obsession

Sea Turtles Use Magnetic Fields to Find Their Birthplace Beach

Rescue on the Killer Mountain

Disappearing Languages

The Platypus is Even Weirder Than You Thought

The Secret Language of Ships

This NASA engineer from Alabama is a good man to see on your flight

The danger of seeing cute animals everywhere

Why undertakers are worried

NASA’s Juno Mission Provides Infrared Tour of Jupiter’s North Pole

Trouble Detected in Infamous Dark Matter Signal

Using laser tweezers, chemists nudged two atoms to bond

Scientists solve mystery of how Giant’s Causeway was formed

How ‘Deaf President Now’ Changed America

‘No phones, no GPS, no men’: The all-female off-road rally like no other

Meet the Space Cowboys Launching Telescopes From the Middle of Nowhere

This Hummingbird’s Tail Whistles, and No One’s Sure Why

Why buying a house today is so much harder than in 1950

The murder that shook Iceland

Green-haired turtle that breathes through its genitals added to endangered list

Nubian Stone Tablets Unearthed in African ‘City of the Dead’

Super salty lakes discovered in Canadian Arctic could provide window into life beyond Earth

Three years of staring lets scientists capture a neutron star “glitch”

Gallery: Fascinating photos of our solar system and beyond

The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years. That’s bad news.

The day bananas made their British debut

SPHERE reveals fascinating zoo of discs around young stars

The 1918 Flu Pandemic: Photos From a Century Ago

My Grandmother Is Donating Her Brain to Science

Study: The fastest typists make fewer errors and often type the next key before the previous one has been released

Study: Smartphones don’t cause long-term harm to levels of self-control in teens