Something Weird Happened to Men 7,000 Years Ago, And We Finally Know Why

What Pluto and California Have in Common

Here’s what Earth looks like from the US’s most advanced weather satellite

Colleges Are No Match for American Poverty

Greenland Telescope Opens New Era of Arctic Astronomy

Using Deep Space Climate Observatory Measurements to Study the Earth as An Exoplanet

Wearing glasses may really mean you’re smarter, major study finds

Researchers have identified 121 giant planets that may have habitable moons

Is This Inscribed Stone a Notorious Forgery—or the Answer to America’s Oldest Mystery?

Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore

Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it, but the reasons remain largely mysterious

Race Against the Rains

How the resurgence of white supremacy in the US sparked a war over free speech

How an Unproven Forensic Science Became a Courtroom Staple

The Bizarre Not-Murder of Arkady Babchenko

The shining moment when Russian revolutionary women reinvented sex

Stricken hiker’s ‘terror’ stranded in California desert

Experiment Could Help Scientists Predict Avalanches Through Sound

Video: Floating an Anvil on Liquid Mercury

New vitamin supplement study finds they may do more harm than good

Process takes CO₂ from the air, converts it to carbon nanotubes

Desire for sugar eliminated in mice by rewiring brains

Two different forms of water isolated for first time

Here’s what we know about China’s future space station

Britain tried to kill Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1918 with secret RAF bombing raid, reveals archives

Mystery of Earth’s Missing Nitrogen Solved

What will we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.

‘This is a genocide’: villages burn as war rages in blood-soaked Cameroon

‘Murdered’ Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko turns up alive

Valencia village lays claim to original Coca-Cola recipe

In the search for cheap, clean, sea power, one company has turned to a 100-year-old invention: a sail that looks like a tube

Your Recycling Gets Recycled, Right? Maybe, or Maybe Not

First 3D printed human corneas

Study: Women’s voices become temporarily deeper after pregnancy

The Forgotten Girls Who Led the School-Desegregation Movement

New research reveals ocean waves play greater role in trapping carbon dioxide

Speculative biology: understanding the past and predicting our future

How to Impregnate a Rhino (Besides the usual way)v

Ringing the chords of the Universe: how music influenced science

Can the town of Asbestos, Canada ever escape the shadow cast by its history?

Reptilian-Mammal Fossil Unearthed In Utah, Turning Previous Theories Upside Down

Hotter years ‘mean lower exam results’

The stowaways abandoned on the ice

The Thieves Who Steal Sunken Warships, Right Down to the Bolts

Digital Ambulance Chasers? Law Firms Send Ads To Patients’ Phones Inside ERs

South African ‘world’s oldest man’ wants to stop smoking

Time crystals may hold secret to coherence in quantum computing

These bugs’ babies get eaten by birds but it might be for their own good

Genetic Intelligence Tests Are Next to Worthless

Privately funded search for lost flight MH370 halted after four years

US flight instructors kidnapped and tried to deport trainee to China, say police

Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

Being a Couch Potato May Change Your Personality

Please Don’t Roast Marshmallows Over the Erupting Hawaii Volcano, USGS Warns

The most popular course at Yale teaches how to be happy

Gallery: The Fading Battlefields of World War I

The Carpenter Vs. The Gardener: Two Models Of Modern Parenting

Self-driving technology is going to change a lot more than cars

Archaeologists uncover remains of Pompeii victim ‘decapitated while trying to flee’

Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia