The Great Rikers Island Art Heist

Photos From the Aftermath of Hurricane Michael

The Maya Kept Jaguar Zoos For Centuries

Serial killers of Ecatepec confess to eating the remains of their victims

Cryptocurrencies Just Plummeted $13 Billion in Value Over the Course of a Few Hours

The Fight to Save the Last Swimming Camels on Earth

Child marriage in the U.S. is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder

Mysterious Deep-Space Flashes: 19 More ‘Fast Radio Bursts’ Found

The Raid on Bermuda That Saved the American Revolution

Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness

So Can We Terraform Mars or Not?

Ballistic Reentry: How Astronauts Survive a Failed Launch

The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System

Video: Sunshine and stadium effect inside the eye of Michael

How will 9 billion or 10 billion people eat without destroying the environment?

Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing for US-Russian Space Station Crew

Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names

Small-Town Injustice: The Aftermath of a Police Officer’s Murder Conviction in Rocky Ford

How Hurricane Michael Became a ‘Worst-Case Scenario’

The All-Women Team of Scientists That Trekked to the Heart of Kilauea Volcano’s Eruption

Astronomers Wonder: Can Moons Have Moons?

How a fraudster got $12 million out of a Canadian university: They just asked for it

Newly declassified documents show why the Americans and the Soviets came so close to war in 1973

“My-side bias” makes it difficult for us to see the logic in arguments we disagree with

Something Eerie Happens to The Bees During a Total Solar Eclipse

US scientists have laid out a plan to search for life in the universe

Why We’re Stuck With An Inadequate Hurricane Rating System

Russian Whistleblower Assassinated After Uncovering $200 Billion Dirty-Money Scandal

Proof of life: how would we recognise an alien if we saw one?

1,700-Year-Old Sock Spins Yarn About Ancient Egyptian Fashion

Plants Can’t Talk. But Some Fruits Say ‘Eat Me’ to Animals.

How to Understand the UN’s Dire New Climate Report

Dutch museums discover 170 artworks stolen by Nazis

This new food museum expects to upset your stomach — and then make you think about why

To Heil, or Not To Heil, When Traveling in the Third Reich

Lost Chain of Underwater Volcanoes Is a Massive Whale Superhighway

Calvin Klein fragrance could be used to lure killer tiger

Meet the trillions of viruses that make up your virome

Extreme heat of Vesuvius eruption vaporized body fluids, exploded skulls

How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler

Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces to Fight Killer Lice

New study looks at the factors behind the extremely high mortality of the 1918 flu pandemic and how to prepare for future pandemics

Scientists present new clues to cut through the mystery of Titan’s atmospheric haze

French police officer caught selling confidential police data on the dark web

A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come

Secret Life of a Psych Ward Security Guard

Should You Stop Exercising During Wildfire Season?

Future spacecraft landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa may have to navigate jagged blades of ice

Sleep: how much do we really need?

Protesters battle police in a fight for an ancient forest

Gene editing in human embryos takes step closer to reality

When Is a Nova Not a ‘Nova’? When a White Dwarf and a Brown Dwarf Collide

How Do You Find an Alien Ocean? Margaret Kivelson Figured It Out.

One of the deadliest fires in human history occurred on this day in 1871

French doctors fail to solve mystery of babies with missing limbs

Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure

Andy Warhol Said He Came From ‘Nowhere.’ This Is It.

Astronomers Are Getting Excited Over Ghostly Traces of a Massive Cosmic Explosion

Wind-powered ships are making a comeback