Stephen Hawking’s final theory sheds light on the multiverse

The Baby-Formula Crime Ring

Why replacing politicians with experts is a reckless idea

Forgotten Data From 1996 Sheds New Light on Jupiter’s Mysterious Moon Ganymede

This creature has the oddest eyes in the animal kingdom

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Can We Stop a ‘Mass Extinction’ of Human Languages?

Hassan Diab spent 3 years in a French prison for a 1980 bombing despite little evidence he committed the crime

Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Interview With One of America’s Last Living Slaves

Body found inside wall of washroom at Calgary shopping mall

The Great High School Impostor

A rare eye cancer showed up in three friends. Doctors want to know if the cases are connected.

Mars InSight: NASA’s Journey Into the Red Planet’s Deepest Mysteries

The Future of Science Storytelling

‘There’s a lot of fakery’: insiders spill on the dirty tricks behind wildlife photos

This ocean path will take you on the longest straight-line journey on Earth

Evolving starship concept from students and researchers at Delft University of Technology

Ash could paralyze Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupts, government report warns

Sick building syndrome: is it the buildings or the people who need treatment?

75 years ago today the corpse of an Allied officer and his briefcase of secret papers washed ashore in Spain

The Spy Who Came Home

The Digital Vigilantes Who Hack Back

Calcium-based MRI sensor enables more sensitive brain imaging

A Population That Pollutes Itself Into Extinction (and It’s Not Us)

Our Galaxy Was Walloped by a Neighbor in Its Not-So-Distant Past, New Analysis Suggests

A History of What We Do in the Dark

‘Catastrophe’: French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes

Jackson Pollock painting gets a cleaning, and the public gets to watch

How to be alone: ‘I feel most alive when I’m with my own thoughts’

Don’t Be Afraid of the Multiverse

The Man Who Saved Havana

Scientists on the verge of creating hybrid elephant and mammoth

France seizes France.com from man who’s had it since ‘94, so he sues

Music activates regions of the brain spared by Alzheimer’s disease

Seattle Vacates Hundreds of Marijuana Charges Going Back 30 Years

Unusual eruptions at world’s largest active geyser in Yellowstone

Health warnings after toxic caterpillar outbreak in London

Honeybees may unlock the secrets of how the human brain works

Wooden Statue Found in Late 1890s Likely Dates Back More Than 11,000 Years

Hints of Human Evolution in Chimpanzees That Endure a Savanna’s Heat

Farewell, No. 16: scientists left ‘miserable’ after world’s oldest spider dies aged 43

Video: Recently found footage of very early (1920s) Technicolor films

The military paid for a study on sea level rise. The results were scary.

Video: Hurricane in a Box

Icy Mars Crater Shines in European Probe’s 1st Photo from New Orbit

People built a whole island to protect the rarest of rare creatures — an albino orangutan

This Fungus Borrowed From Ancient Bacteria to Defy Gravity

How I got 30 years on death row for someone else’s crime

EU agrees total ban on bee-harming pesticides

Hubble captures first image of surviving companion to a supernova. And it seems that the companion star caused the explosion.

NASA Mars Mission Faces Setback After Heat Shield Cracks Under Pressure

Desert ants use the Earth’s magnetic field for orientation, a new study has found

You could be flirting on dating apps with paid impersonators

An MSG Convert Visits the High Church of Umami

Why we should bulldoze the business school

Ida B Wells: the unsung heroine of the civil rights movement

Noninvasive spinal stimulation method enables paralyzed people to regain use of hands, study finds

Korean leaders plan an end to war and ‘complete denuclearization’

Video: The Crazy Story Of A Real Life Treasure Hunt

Scientists can now keep brains alive without a body