What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm

A photographic primer on the dynamics of marine ice

Those Who Can’t Forget

3,500-Year-Old Hand is Europe’s Earliest Metal Body Part

The waiting list for organ transplants is finally shrinking — for a grim reason

A 124-year-old statue reviled by Native Americans – and how it came down

No One Knows Exactly What Would Happen If Mosquitoes Were to Disappear

Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in ‘fishing hut’

Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes

Antarctica Greenhouse Produces Cucumbers, Tomatoes and More in Mars-Like Test

How scientists captured a stunning, hellish menagerie of half-dissolved creatures

What Darwin Didn’t Know About Evolution

The Nazis Tried and Failed to Build the World’s Largest Stadium

NASA tech is in your everyday life — find out where with this interactive tool

When Televisions Were Radioactive

The bridge that crossed an ocean (And the man who moved it)

Interactive: Listen to the World

Shell and Exxon’s secret 1980s climate change warnings

Your gut is directly connected to your brain, by a newly discovered neuron circuit

Astronomers detect matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the speed of light

Murdered man’s body found after tree ‘unusual for the area’ grew from seed in his stomach

Hitler v Lennin: Peru mayoral election is a historical showdown

Japanese companies plan to build moon colonies

How do you solve catastrophic hyperinflation?

On this day in 1979, something resembling a nuclear explosion occurred in the Indian Ocean

Praying mantis seen hunting for fish in wild for first time ever

The lunar gateway: a short cut to Mars?

Japan Has Enough Nuclear Material to Build an Arsenal. Its Plan: Recycle.

“Gummy squirrels,” single-celled organisms the size of softballs and strange worms thrive in a Pacific Ocean zone some considered an underwater desert

They Made It! Japan’s Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu

What’s the Maximum Gravity We Could Survive?

After Decades of War, This Jungle Is Now Open for Exploration

Discovery of Galileo’s long-lost letter shows he edited his heretical ideas to fool the Inquisition

The Dangers of DNA Testing

Paedophile cult leader Warren Jeffs tore this town apart. Now his victims are putting it back together

Get ready for a flood of new exoplanets: TESS has already spotted two

The Brothel Empire and the Ex-Detective, Always One Step Ahead of the Law

Newly discovered photographs reveal family life of the Romanovs

ScanMars demonstrates water detection device for astronauts on Mars

Geologists Are Feuding About the Collapse of Civilization

A Breakthrough for U.S. Troops: Combat-Ready Pizza

Video: Animated short: One Small Step

The Bizarre Scheme Using Viral Abuse Stories and Stolen Pics to Sell Diet Pills on Twitter

Inside the eight desperate weeks that saved SpaceX from ruin

Unknown Signal from Andromeda -“There’s Something Out There That We Can’t Sense Yet”

New Microscope Shows the Quantum World in Crazy Detail

Alan Abel, Hoaxer Extraordinaire, Is (on Good Authority) Dead at 94

The outrageous plan to haul icebergs to Africa

The microbial menagerie in the air

Scientists have finally confirmed that weird 558-million-year-old ribbed oval fossils are from animals

Scientists Gave MDMA to Octopuses—and What Happened Was Profound

The Brash Genius Who Built a Railway Empire

The Palmdale Bulge: A Geo-Crisis That Likely Never Existed

Worms, water fleas and bacteria could bring clean water to remote areas

Build walls on seafloor to stop glaciers melting, scientists say

New species of blind eel that burrows through the soil discovered

Golf Digest helped vacate this man’s murder conviction after 27 years [autoplay video]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars Sidelined by Glitch

How the octopus got its smarts