Can Trauma Be Inherited Between Generations?

Did Uber Steal Google’s Intellectual Property?

Why Diving Tectonic Plates Get Stuck 400 Miles beneath Earth’s Surface

The Night Watch: Rembrandt painting to be restored under world’s gaze

The Dawn of Television Promised Diversity. Here’s Why We Got “Leave It to Beaver”

How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer’s Brain

What Happens When Humans Fall In Love With An Invasive Species

Coffee Rust Threatens Latin American Crop; 150 Years Ago, It Wiped Out An Empire

Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets form

NASA’s Flagship X-Ray Telescope Back Online After Last Week’s Safe Mode

The Employer Surveillance State

Neanderthals Suffered a Lot of Traumatic Injuries. So How Did They Live So Long?

‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss

On mana: why we bestow certain objects with unearthly powers

Are Black Holes Actually Dark Energy Stars?

A Naturalist With a Checkered Past Rediscovered a Long-lost Parrot…Then Things Got Interesting

Trees and plants reached ‘peak carbon’ 10 years ago

How an Unlikely Family History Website Transformed Cold Case Investigations

Male Gorillas Love Hanging Around With Infants

10 stomachs, 32 brains and 18 testicles – a day inside the UK’s only leech farm

The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world

Sensational find of Viking ships and Viking village in Halden, Norway (machine translated)

Sears, the Original Everything Store, Nears a Bankruptcy Filing

If You Traveled Far Enough Through Space, Would You Return To Your Starting Point?

The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece really being kept under wraps?

When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science

How the ‘blues’ of polar heroes throws light on Sad syndrome

Sprayable antennas turn surfaces into ultra-thin, transparent transmitters

Study: Most of the Arctic’s permanent ice is gone

Elaborate and ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ ancient Roman shrine uncovered by Pompeii excavators

Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future

Hubble’s Hardware Woes and the Painful Era of Aging Spacecraft

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents

Fifth-century child’s skeleton shows evidence of “vampire burial”

Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of ‘superhumans’

Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision

This Is The Real Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

Thinking outside the box: Adults with ADHD not constrained in creativity

Decades After Taking Henrietta Lacks’s Cells Without Consent, Johns Hopkins Names Building After Her

Researchers identify a “looming eyes” optical illusion that frightens birds away from airports

At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion

‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires

The Never-Ending Drought Story

Why is it fun to be frightened?

Surgery in Space: Medicine’s Final Frontier

Rocket launches to be grounded while mid-air failure is investigated

The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail

Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse

The last lighthouse keeper of Capri

Ancient rock carvings in India hint at a 12,000-year-old lost civilisation

Opportunity Rover Still Silent on Mars, 4 Months After Epic Dust Storm Began

Hidden Secrets of Pulsars Revealed by Trippy Computer Simulations

Africa’s ‘youngest’ billionaire kidnapped in Tanzania

See ancient Egypt’s stunning, lifelike mummy portraits

How five anomalous events at two neutrino experiments provide evidence for supersymmetry

Stunning snail found in dinosaur-era amber

New Mars rover gets high-tech paint job for harsh conditions on Mars

Psychologists’ face off reveals humans can recognise 5,000 people

Same-Sex Mice Parents Give Birth to Healthy Brood

Stephen Hawking’s final scientific paper released