Is there a link between mass shootings and mental illness?

Invasive rabbits have ravaged one of the most remote islands on the planet

The spectacular power of Big Lens

A Beginner’s Guide to Hawaii’s Otherworldly Lava

Scrolls and other artifacts found inside a centuries-old statue of Buddha in Japan

Dozens killed as Kenya dam bursts, causing ‘huge destruction’

Why kids and teens may face far more anxiety these days

Dead end: What it’s like to live in Queens surrounded by cemeteries

Astronomers Have Accidentally Taken a Direct Photo of a Possible Baby Exoplanet

The truth about Hans Asperger’s Nazi collusion

120 years ago today scientists liquefied hydrogen for the first time in history

The Oldest Virus Ever Sequenced Comes From a 7,000-Year-Old Tooth

A hangover pill? Tests on drunk mice show promise

Biggest Test Yet Shows Einstein Was Wrong About ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’

Image: The Red Rectangle Nebula from Hubble

The enduring myth of the mad genius

The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA

Potential new cure found for baldness

55 years ago today scientists installed an artificial ring around the Earth

We are more than our brains: on neuroscience and being human

Did Syria create the world’s first song?

Children of the Opioid Epidemic

The Last Days of the Blue-Blood Harvest

How Criminals Steal $37 Billion a Year from America’s Elderly

Our fiction addiction: Why humans need stories

She was told her perpetually runny nose was from ‘allergies.’ It was a brain-fluid leak.

The health effects of breathing lunar dust over long periods of time could be severe

One of the Milky Way’s fastest stars is an invader from another galaxy

Construction Begins on One of the World’s Most Sensitive Dark Matter Experiments

Study: Students of artistic subjects at increased risk of developing schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression

How a Bank Glitch Let a Man Named “Milky” Get Away With Millions

How America Broke Its Economy

Earth’s Orbital Changes Have Influenced Climate, Life Forms For at Least 215 Million Years

‘Prime number’ cicada life cycles undisturbed by crossbreeding

The material science of building a light sail to take us to Alpha Centauri

Bird migration explained at last: It’s all about energy efficiency

How the chicken nugget became the true symbol of our era

How the Father of Computer Science Decoded Nature’s Mysterious Patterns

A Hidden Promise in the Language Cells Use to Communicate

Meet the ancestors… the two brothers creating lifelike figures of early man

Scientists launch huge survey to find alien life

How a German city changed how we read

How a spider jumps on its prey – science has the answer

Image: The observable universe

People think she’s a Parkland ‘crisis actor.’ It’s terrifying.

Sun ‘will flare into massive planetary nebula when it dies’

Hail the matriarch: the world’s only colony-building beetle

The Birds that Live with Lava

Japan has a form of capitalism that works

Bill Gates in Search of Nuclear Nirvana

How the Kent State massacre helped give birth to punk rock

Your Body Acquires Trillions of New Mutations Every Day

96-Year-Old Secretary Quietly Amasses Fortune, Then Donates $8.2 Million

What Happens When You Kill a Bicyclist?

On this day in 1931, Harland Sanders engaged in a shootout over an advertising dispute

Psychedelic drugs appear to fundamentally reorganize the brain — and they’re starting to turn into approved treatments

New survey confirms no hidden Nefertiti chamber in Tutankhamun’s tomb

Thousand years of Tibetan masterpieces revealed for first time

People adapted to the cold and got more migraines as a result

When cops can’t convict a ‘top Mafia boss,’ they turn to desperate measures