These Physicists Watched a Clock Tick for 14 Years Straight

Is Exxon Mobil the next Philip Morris?

NASA: A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission Recovery

Black bears are going bald. It might be even worse than it looks.

Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated

What It’s Like to Trip on the Most Potent Magic Mushroom

Small Asteroid Strikes Africa Just Hours After It Was Spotted

Is America Ready for the Next Superstorm?

The metamorphosis of masturbation

Toronto police officer on paid suspension for 11 years could finally be fired

‘I was looking for my mother but found my twin instead’

Hell on Wheels: The Rogue World of One of New York’s Major Trash Haulers

National Security Agency (NSA) security/motivational posters from the 1950s and 1960s (PDF)

14 years ago today the Killdozer emerged

Disgust is likely to be structured around the people, practices and objects that pose disease risk

The Psychology of Money

The new lighter-than-air race for space

This Fish’s Eyes Turn Black When It Gets Mad

Guatemala volcano in pictures

Study: People faced with scheduled appointments perceive they have less time than in reality, and perform fewer tasks as a result

Webring History: Social Media Before Social Media

Remembering When Only Barbarians Drank Milk

The Penguin That Loved Too Much

Rice grown by Chinese scientists using seawater in Dubai’s deserts

Bringing back languages from scraps of paper

Team discover how microbes survive clean rooms and contaminate spacecraft

The secrets of a diary written on castle floorboards

A story of survival: New York’s last remaining independent bookshops

Video: The Liquid Bomb Plot (Crime Documentary)

How my bipolar landed me in crippling debt

Antibiotics greatly reduce effectiveness of cancer treatment – study

Does Dark Matter Have an Electric Charge?

The strange tale of the hovertrain, the British hyperloop of the 1970s

At Folsom prison, Johnny Cash found his cause

Three Bodies Found at House Where Massachusetts Kidnapping Suspect Lived

Meet Norman, the psychopathic AI

Flooding And Rising Seas Threaten America’s Oldest Farmland

Link between bacteria metabolism and communication could pave way for new antivirulence drugs

Tales from the far-flung Faroes

Video: Simulation of the formation of the moon after Earth’s impact with hypothetical planet Theia

The Terrifying Lessons of a Pandemic Simulation

A ‘self-eating’ rocket engine which could place small satellites in orbit more easily and more affordably

An evolutionary adaptation that doesn’t directly rely on new mutations

Colliding Neutron Stars Likely Birthed a Baby Black Hole

Evidence Found for a New Fundamental Particle

161 years ago today was the date of birth for a gentleman of singular talent

Canadian researcher helps shed light on ‘hawk’ mummy that was really human

A suitcase full of photographic wonder

40 years ago this month an architect realized that a strong wind could topple one of his skyscrapers

The face in the waves

How The Marine Corps Blew The Biggest War Crimes Case Since Vietnam (note: disturbing images)

Mars Express has revealed the red planet in stunning new ways

‘Holy grail of cancer research’: doctors positive about early detection blood test

Blood Will Tell, Part 2: Did Faulty Evidence Doom Joe Bryan?

Is it really healthier to live in the countryside?

Do Dogs Really Prefer Baby Talk? You Might Be Surprised.

Sign Washed Away in Hurricane Sandy Lands on Beach in France

How to flirt in Canada — give personal space, split bills and don’t wait on a Canadian man to make a pass

Details that look sharp to people may be blurry to their pets

The World War I Battle That Turned Into a Suicide Mission