New brain imaging research shows that when we expect something to hurt, it does

Do We Actually Experience the Flow of Time?


Caught in the inferno: How the Camp Fire overwhelmed Paradise

Has a Piece of the World’s Oldest Computer Been Found?

Gallery: The 2018 National Geographic Photo Contest

Remarkable tale of Hitler’s young Jewish friend

Lie About Yourself Enough and Even You’ll Believe It

Why space debris cleanup might be a national security threat

Stem Cells Remember Tissues’ Past Injuries

Hundreds of Tiny Terracotta Warriors Found Guarding 2,100-Year-Old Chinese Site

Behind-the-scenes audio from Apollo 11 mission made public for first time

Image: Jovian Close Encounter

What makes us? Nature or nurture? The DNA debate comes back to life

A ‘Time Capsule’ for Scientists, Courtesy of Peter the Great

Good Grief!: The beguiling philosophy of Peanuts

How World War I Became the First Modern War of Science

New Mucus Study Could Hold the Key to Clearing Your Phlegm

What would a smog-free city look like?

How plants evolved to make ants their servants

Could you have this memory disorder?

‘It’s something out of a Hitchcock film’: Experts re-examine unsolved Canadian airliner bombing

The plastic backlash: what’s behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?

UFOs spotted off Irish coast under investigation

Hubble snaps clearest ever shots of cataclysmic cosmic collisions

Star Trek-like Tech Seals Wounds with a Laser

Marie Curie and her X-ray vehicles’ contribution to World War I battlefield medicine

Can Better Photosynthesis Help Feed the World?

How Forest Fires Make Their Own Hellish Weather

Sourdough Hands: How Bakers And Bread Are A Microbial Match

My Father’s SOS—From the Middle of the Sea

Researchers brace for dark matter ‘hurricane’

Bats Beat Dolphins in the Battle over Who Has the Best Sonar

The buried secrets of the deadliest location on Earth

Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon

NASA’s Curiosity Rover on Mars Is Rolling (and Drilling) Again

Super recognisers: the people who never forget a face

No One Has Ever Crossed Antarctica Unsupported. Two Men Are Trying Right Now.

Eye implant uses magnets to manage glaucoma

Two More Mysterious Rogue Planets Found

How Dad’s Stresses Get Passed Along to Offspring

Is Sex Binary? Skeletal Studies Shows It’s More Complex

Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains?

Black on the battlefield: Canada’s forgotten First World War battalion

How Edgar Allan Poe Got Kicked Out of the U.S. Army

Moths use acoustic camouflaging fur to evade bats

100 years ago today the First World War ended, as illustrated by the abrupt silencing of artillery in this sound ranging tape

Dozens of cat mummies found in 6,000-year-old tombs in Egypt

The Plan to Sell Texas to Great Britain

Huge Lakes Thought to Be Hiding Beneath Antarctica’s Ice Seem to Have Vanished

Delivering drugs directly to the eye using microneedles that dissolve

Pretentious, impenetrable, hard work … better? Why we need difficult books

The Chemists’ War

Newly Revealed Letter Shows Einstein Feared Persecution Long Before Nazis Took Power

It ended in 1767, yet this experiment is still linked to higher incomes and education levels today

180 people died on serial killer Elizabeth Wettlaufer’s shifts in one nursing home. Was that a red flag?

Parker Solar Probe singed but safe after historic close encounter with the Sun

Love Letters From the Battlefield

Could consciousness all come down to the way things vibrate?

Long-Lost Continents Under Antarctica Revealed in Old Satellite Data

Learning to Read in Your 30s Profoundly Transforms the Brain