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Hubble’s Greatest Discoveries Weren’t Planned; They Were Surprises

European satellite reveals motions of more than 1 billion stars and shape of the Milky Way

Study of long-term heterosexual couples finds women over-estimate and men underestimate their partner’s sexual advances

North Korea’s nuclear test site has collapsed … and that may be why Kim Jong-un suspended tests

Peter Madsen sentenced to life for murdering journalist Kim Wall

Hotel door locks worldwide were vulnerable to hack

‘Brilliant beyond all precedent’: The first White House state dinner for the king of Hawaii

Golden State Killer Suspect Arrested, According to Co-Author of ‘I’ll Be Gone in the Dark’

Drew Cloud Is a Well-Known Expert on Student Loans. One Problem: He’s Not Real.

New Guineans carved human bones into ‘formidable, fierce-looking and beautiful’ daggers

Mummified body found in Iran could be of ex-ruler Reza Shah

Julie Washington’s Quest to Get Schools to Respect African-American English

What the World Would Look Like if All the Ice Melted

How the ‘Golden Age’ of Travel Transformed American Cuisine

Play Saturn’s Rings Like a Harp

Stellar Effort: Chart of the Milky Way Includes More Than 1 Billion Stars

In photos: a rare glimpse inside the heart of a quantum computer

Dark Photons Probably Don’t Exist, and If They Did, They’d Be Super Weird

If We’re Searching for Earth 2.0, Would We Know It When We Find It?

Setting Fires and Restoring an American Landscape

“I feel whole again:” Wounded vet receives first penis-scrotum combo transplant

Inside the secret U.S. stockpile meant to save us all in a bioterror attack

The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans

Why It Seems Like Everyone Is Always Angry With You

Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic ‘Snow’ on the Surface of a Comet

How bacteria are changing your mood

The Renegade Sheriffs: A law-enforcement movement that claims to answer only to the Constitution

The DARKNESS Instrument Will Block Stars and Reveal Their Planets. 100 Million Times Fainter than the Star

New DNA Shape Called “I-Motif” Reveals the Double Helix Is Not Alone

Decades-Old Graph Problem Yields to Amateur Mathematician

The Mystery of the Most Famous Missing Person on YouTube

The Epidemic of Isolation Among Young Men

NASA Doesn’t Know What Poked These Holes in the Arctic’s Sea Ice

How blood-red ants became slave snatchers

Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry

MIT Researchers Have Developed a ‘System for Dream Control’

The Reinvention of NASA

Study: Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs

Ramped up fight-or-flight response points to history of warfare for humans and chimps

Everyone Wants To Go Home During Extra Innings — Maybe Even The Umps

These seeds will captivate you whether you’re a gardener or not

No Way Out? Aliens on ‘Super-Earth’ Planets May Be Trapped by Gravity

On this day in 1985, New Coke happened

Solved: A Decades-Old Ansel Adams Mystery

“She Paid for Everything”: How a Fake Heiress Made My $62,000 Disappear

Video: The Black Hole Bomb and Black Hole Civilizations

The monks, the Dachau survivors and the concert that heralded freedom

At the Bottom of the Ocean, a Surprising, Gloomy Discovery

Novel antioxidant makes old blood vessels seem young again

The vetting files: How the BBC kept out ‘subversives’

Where Countries Are Tinderboxes and Facebook Is a Match

The Doting Father Who Robbed Armored Cars

Bombers and Dinosaurs Were Both Before Their Time

Ask Ethan: Could The Universe’s Missing Antimatter Be Found Inside Black Holes?

This Contorted Mystery Squid May Be the ‘Most Bizarre’ Ever Seen

A giant indoor farm in China is breeding 6 billion cockroaches a year. Here’s why

Our brains rapidly and automatically process opinions we agree with as if they are facts

Scientists discover mechanism behind motor neurone disease (ALS)

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