Fantastic New View of Ryugu Asteroid Reveals a Distinctly Dice-Like Shape

The Neuroscience of Pain

The nuclear bunker in ‘Europe’s North Korea’

People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a day lost in their imagination

When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

DNA on napkin used to crack 32-year-old cold case, police say

The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life

NASA gives Jupiter the Van Gogh treatment with magnificent new image

Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You’re Not Alone.

Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter

Nearly 400 years later, the fork remains at the center of American dining controversy

How one man went from hunting meteorites to being hunted by the law

Why it’s okay for bilingual children to mix languages

What if we knew when and how we’d die?

My Daughter Is Trapped Under Five Feet of Snow

The Fight for the Right to Be Cremated by Water

Are humans still evolving?

Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing

The world blurs when I’m on tour with the band

How Pots and Pans Turned Us Into Creative Cooks

A Rattle with Death in Yosemite

Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks

Letters From the Archives: Harry Truman Explains Why He Dropped the Bomb

Image: Once in a Blue Dune

Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power

FBI Releases Study of Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters (PDF)

U-M researchers create world’s smallest ‘computer’

He stole the identity of a dead 8-year-old. Police now want to know what he was hiding from

‘Drunken’ kangaroos may be suffering grass poisoning, vets say

Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

Cyprus turns off taps to farmers as fresh water levels drop

To Believe is to Feel: When a Mysterious Epidemic Isn’t So Mysterious

Putting the brakes on metastatic cancer

The ‘Baby’ that ushered in modern computer age

Keystone Virus Makes Jump From Mosquitoes To Human For First Time

The unlikely home of the world’s smallest desert

The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools

When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong

To save money, my insurance company forced me to try drugs that didn’t work

Gene-edited farm animals are on their way

Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

Magnetic Sense Helps Billions of Moths on an Australian Migration

Neanderthal ‘minibrains’ grown in dish

Alzheimer’s link to herpes virus in brain, say scientists

The Mysterious ‘Jumping Gene’ That Appears 500,000 Times in Human DNA

The unlikely nation filled with cryptocurrency mines

Epic Dust Storm on Mars Now Completely Covers the Red Planet

How one man died so a whale might live

Spite buildings: when human grudges get architectural – in pictures

Some Rivers Are So Drug-Polluted, Their Eels Get High on Cocaine

Koko, the beloved gorilla that learned to communicate using sign language, has died (aged 46)

The people who cannot smile

Disposable America: A history of modern capitalism from the perspective of the straw

Why Hitchcock’s Kaleidoscope was too shocking to be made

Did Scientists Just Find a Missing Piece of the Universe?

The Summer Solstice and the Search for Life in the Cosmos

Theory Suggests That All Genes Affect Every Complex Trait

Where a Taboo Is Leading to the Deaths of Young Girls

Why Would You Want a Prosthetic Hand That Feels Pain?

NASA can’t find most of the asteroids threatening Earth, but it has a plan