A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland’s Ice Sheet

Super-Earth Orbiting Barnard’s Star

Penises of the ancient world: phallus found in Roman toilet was far from the first

Teufelsberg: Berlin’s Graffitied Ruin Is Perfect for Spy Lovers

The Tay Bridge Disaster And The World’s Worst Poem

Jannie Duncan: “Beautiful Human” or Fugitive Killer?

Gaia spots a ‘ghost’ galaxy next door

Partial mycoheterotrophs: The green plants that feed on fungi

Pregnancy Changes Perception of Odors and Tastes

The U.S. Army Is Trying to Design a Civilian-Safe Land Mine

Re: Hate Mail

Trapped by Camp Fire, more than a dozen people – one 90 – survived in chilly lake

20 Americans Die Each Day Waiting for Organs. Can Pigs Save Them?

Looking Back on NASA’s Vivid 1970s Visions of Space Living

How the Midnight Sun Gave This Man ‘Rotten Zombie Skin’

Amazon tribe study reveals blood pressure clue

AI software helped NASA dream up this spider-like interplanetary lander

The mystery viruses far worse than flu

What 20,000 letters to an advice columnist tell us about what–and who–concerns us most

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