Astronomers find fastest-growing black hole known in space

When Does a Moment Turn Into a ‘Movement’?

The Trip of a Lifetime: What LSD and other psychedelics can do for the no longer young

Cops Are Nearly 3 Times More Likely to Kill Black Americans Than White Americans

Scientists ‘transplant memories’ between sea snails via injection

Manhattan Project: Australian physicist alerted Britain to US secrecy plan

Records tumble as monster wave rolls through Southern Ocean

This Newfound X-Ray Pulsar Is Orbiting Its Partner at Record Speed

Moon of Jupiter prime candidate for alien life after water blast found

Employers are monitoring computers, toilet breaks – even emotions.

Gallery: How a city that floods is running out of water

‘My Dearest Fidel’: An ABC Journalist’s Secret Liaison With Fidel Castro

Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll

Jails are replacing visits with video calls—inmates and families hate it

Study suggests your adulthood self-esteem has its roots in the way you were raised as a child

Why Is Water Slippery?

Native Language Schools Are Taking Back Education

We Have ‘Eyes In The Back Of The Head,’ Study Shows

On this day in 1960 NASA launched its first ‘satelloon’

Colombia after the Violence

Neuroscientists Find First Evidence Animals Can Mentally Replay Past Events

Noise exposure is becoming ‘the new secondhand smoke’

The Mobster Who Bought His Teenage Son a Hockey Team

Inside the Final Days of Robin Williams

Self-repairing organs could save your life in a heartbeat

The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver

Remains of ancient horse discovered at Pompeii

This Asteroid Shouldn’t Be Where Astronomers Found It

Paul Simon vs. the World

Mars Helicopter to Fly on NASA’s Next Red Planet Rover Mission

Ultrasound helmet would make live images, brain-machine interface possible

Time travelers invited to Stephen Hawking send-off

‘Incredible’ bioluminescence gives California surf an eerie blue glow

‘Double Trojan Horse’ Drug Tricks Bacteria Into Committing Suicide

She didn’t see it coming: psychic arrested for $800,000 fraud

Record-holding blood donor James Harrison donates one final time (autoplay video)

Finland Is the Happiest Country in the World, and Finns Aren’t Happy about It

Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World’s Deepest Ocean Trench

Can we treat psychosis by listening to the voices in our heads?

How a Mugger Helped Create the NSA’s Post-9/11 Surveillance Program

Rare dinosaur skeleton for sale – along with the right to name species

Chasing the Pearl of Lao Tzu

Scientists to grow ‘mini-brains’ using Neanderthal DNA

Why our facial expressions don’t reflect our feelings

Genghis Khan’s Mongol horde probably had rampant Hepatitis B

“While paranoid people believe that almost everybody is out to get them, conspiracist believe that a few powerful people are out to get everybody”

Celebrating Richard Feynman’s 100th Birthday

Mysterious Light Seen Around A Newly Forming Star; Here’s What Astronomers Think It Means

The tragic story of America’s only native parrot, now extinct for 100 years

A 2-Year Stanford Study Shows the Astonishing Productivity Boost of Working From Home

How a Special Diet Kept the Knights Templar Fighting Fit

Inside the Secret Cities That Created the Atomic Bomb

Does Confidence Reflect Accuracy, or Just Consensus?

Virtual Reality Shows Promise in Treating Eating Disorders

Cells Talk and Help One Another via Tiny Tube Networks

Researchers say a breathalyzer has flaws, casting doubt on countless convictions

101 years ago today the “sleepy sickness” was first formally described

Beavers reduce river pollution by building dams, study shows

Army surgeon transplants ear ‘grown’ on Soldier’s forearm

Cave found in Kenya in which people lived for 78,000 years