‘Artificial ovary’ could help women conceive after chemotherapy

First confirmed image of newborn planet caught with ESO’s VLT

An Extraordinarily Expensive Way to Fight ISIS

Study: Magnetic brain stimulation lasting just over three minutes significantly reduces depression

Archaeologists uncover remains of a horrifying Iron Age battle in Denmark

On this day in 1959, three guys who all thought they were Christ walked into a room

A Lost Secret: How To Get Kids To Pay Attention

A 1980s Quantum Link to a modern-day Mutiny

A notorious gangster has escaped by helicopter from a prison in the Paris region, the French authorities say

NASA just launched 20 mice into space on a SpaceX rocket while their identical twins stay on Earth — here’s what they hope to learn

A Guide To Mosquito Repellents, From DEET To … Gin And Tonic?

More Clues That Earth-Like Exoplanets Are Indeed Earth-Like

Buried by the Ash of Vesuvius, These Scrolls Are Being Read for the First Time in Millennia

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

How to Tell the Difference Between a Panic Attack and a Heart Attack

Alternatives to Heterosexual Pairings, Brought to You By Non-Human Animals

Even great ideas can fail at first. Just look at the zipper.

The tools humanity will need for living in the year 1 trillion

High-Resolution Snapshot of Zika Virus Reveals Clues to Fighting It

Physics can explain human innovation and enlightenment

How perfectionism leads to depression

How to tell an asteroid from a comet, even when its from outside our solar system

The Mysterious Microbes in the Sky

The Evolutionary Origin of Descending Testicles

Psychiatric medications can interfere with the body’s ability to regulate temperature, and most patients don’t know

He Died at Pompeii, but His Head Wasn’t Crushed by a Block

The scarecrow master of Shikoku, Japan

Space is full of dirty, toxic grease, scientists reveal [for certain definitions of “full”]

Is a hole a real thing, or just a place where something isn’t?

These Female Pilots Broke Down Barriers in Aviation

The Young Milky Way Collided With a Dwarf Galaxy

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber

Black Wall Street: The African American Haven That Burned and Then Rose From the Ashes

“The Straight Dope” to shut down after 45 years of publication

‘Naked hermit’ who lived on deserted island for thirty years ‘captured’, brought back to civilisation

New species of tiny spider discovered in Indiana cave

Abalonia: The Island Nation That Never Was

Can Crows Make Mental Pictures of Tools?

The scientific reason your brain never runs out of problems to find

Three Identical Strangers: the bizarre tale of triplets separated at birth

Scientists have improved the performance of magnetic nanoparticles designed to roast and destroy tumors

How Long Can We Live? The Limit Hasn’t Been Reached, Study Finds

The Counterfeit Queen of Soul

Switzerland’s mysterious fourth language

A fascinating catalog of all objects found when workers drained a canal in Amsterdam

Flamingo that escaped a zoo in 2005 spotted in Texas

Archaeologists stumble on Neolithic ritual site in Suffolk

Genealogists Turn to Cousins’ DNA and Family Trees to Crack Five More Cold Cases

Nearly 2 million Africans were pulled into World War I, their reward was even more colonization

Happy Tau Day, the true circle constant

On this day in 1905, Dr. Beaurieux attempted to converse with a freshly severed head

How to get away with financial fraud

Why athletes need a ‘quiet eye’

This novel, one-and-done flu drug could be available soon in the US

The People Who Are Afraid of Food

On this day in 1945, stakeholders in AM radio succeeded in ruining the inventor of FM radio.

The Board Game at the Heart of Viking Culture

NASA’s next flagship space telescope is delayed again

Saturn moon Enceladus offers ‘tantalizing’ new hint it’s habitable

Interstellar Visitor ‘Oumuamua Is a Comet After All