Why surgeons amputated a 7-year-old’s leg and reattached it the wrong way

A New Spider Family Tree Tries to Untangle the Evolution of Webs

A Killing at Donkey Creek

In a medical first, drugs have reversed an inherited disorder in the womb

The Era of Very Low Inflation and Interest Rates May Be Near an End

Scientists figured out how some of the world’s smallest creatures pack such powerful punches

Stolen heart of Dublin’s patron saint returned intact

CIA plans to replace spies with AI

‘Gene map for depression’ sparks hopes of new generation of treatments

Earth May Have Been Formed by a Bunch of Tiny Space Pebbles

Highly interactive simulation of the human vocal system

Neandertals, Stone Age people may have voyaged the Mediterranean

Inside the bloody drug crackdown in the Philippines

What I learned by living without artificial light

The last man who knew everything

Asteroids Really Could Have Brought Water to Earth, Experiment With Giant Rock Blaster Shows

Space agencies intent on mission to return Mars rocks to Earth

Quantum radar to render stealth technologies ineffective

Drumming Beats Speech for Distant Communication

The Race to Save the Axolotl

Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic script to the Latin-based style favoured by the West

A pileup of 14 distant galaxies is set to become the most massive structure in the universe

‘Unique in the world’ fossil footprints show a human chasing an extinct giant sloth

Could diabetic blindness be prevented by glowing contact lenses?

The UK might have to build an entire new satellite system because of Brexit

Wings Of Desire: Why Is An Obsessive British Collector Risking Jail To Kill Rare Butterflies?

Dose entire population with anti-malaria drugs to eradicate disease – study

Hunger is a gatekeeper of pain in the brain

Swedish archaeologists uncover brutal 5th century massacre

A Lynching’s Long Shadow

How our heartbeat shapes our thinking

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