How scientists are engineering silk to save our bodies

Nearly Half The Kentucky Derby Field Is Racing Against A Half-Brother

60-year-old maths problem partly solved by amateur

All-American Nazis: Inside the Rise of Fascist Youth in the U.S.

The innovation turning desert sand into farmland

Editing brain activity with holography

The White-Collar-Crime Cheat Sheet

30 years ago today a fire started at a large chemical factory outside Henderson, Nevada

Hawaii’s famed Kilauea volcano erupts, spewing lava and forcing evacuations

Gassy Earthquakes Near Istanbul May Pose New Risks to Region

How scientists and engineers handle a spacecraft’s months-long journey to Mars

Can You Overdose on Happiness?

The Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code

Plants ‘talk to’ each other through their roots

Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working.

‘My whole life has been a lie’: Sweden admits meatballs are Turkish

The Man Who Cracked the Lottery

The toxic legacy of Canada’s CIA brainwashing experiments: ‘They strip you of your soul’

These Owl Chicks Have Two Moms and a Dad—a First

A Nuclear Reactor for Space Missions Passes Final Major Ground Tests

The Opioid that Made a Fortune for Its Maker — and for Its Prescribers

The Bering Sea’s ice has never melted this early before

Newly Digitized Collection of Early 20th-Century Lakota Drawings Tells a Curious History

Stanley Kubrick: Before He Wrote Scripts, He Took Photos

In Egypt, dating apps are a refuge for the LGBTQ community, but they can also be a trap

Notes from a Flat Earth conference

Framed for Murder by His Own DNA

How Did Birds Lose Their Teeth And Get Their Beaks? Study Offers Clues

The Mystery of the Killer Vacation

‘There Were Really No Other Women at All’

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

What it’s like to live in Nasa’s new spacecraft

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