Anne Frank’s ‘dirty jokes’ found in hidden diary pages

Hippos Poop So Much That Sometimes All the Fish Die

Three years of research into #thedress, digested – a lesson in humility for perceptual science

MH370 experts think they’ve finally solved the mystery of the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight

How Julian Assange became an unwelcome guest in Ecuador’s embassy

An Ice Core Reveals the Economic Health of the Roman Empire

The Owl Thieves of Sweden

How 3,000-Pound Dinosaurs Sat on Eggs, But Didn’t Crush Them

Japan Is Running Out Of Whisky

A New Theory Linking Sleep and Creativity

US cell carriers are selling access to your real-time phone location data

A new lineage of microbes discovered in Yellowstone’s thermal features sheds light on the origin of life

Gallery: A hidden world 30m below Budapest

Do long prison sentences deter crime?

How Exercise Can Help You Recall Words

Identical Twins Hint at How Environments Change Gene Expression

Two surgeons in China developing a method to transplant a human head

Frank Sinatra’s Mob Ties and Other Secrets from His FBI File

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