On this day in 1939 legendary Finnish sniper Simo Häyhä hit his personal record for a single day: 25 confirmed Russian kills

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Gallery: Tour an abandoned 1960s Frank Lloyd Wright palace in Iran

New Horizons May Make Yet Another Flyby After Ultima Thule

How to write a hit song

Explorer Reaches the Deepest Point in the Atlantic Ocean

He suspected his roommate left the racist graffiti. He didn’t know about the poison.

The Genetic Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition

Antarctic explorers enter no-rescue zone

With First-Ever Landing on Moon’s Farside, China Enters “Luna Incognita”

‘We are at war’: New York’s rat crisis made worse by climate change

Highlights From the Year in Space and Astronomy Developments

A Courting Peacock Can Shake Its Partner’s Head From Afar

Bloodstain Analysis Convinced a Jury She Stabbed Her 10-Year-Old Son. Now, Even Freedom Can’t Give Her Back Her Life.

Photos: 50 Years Since Apollo 8 Showed Us Earthrise

Who Wants to Go Ice Skating Across This Wintry Martian Crater?

The Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Very Litigious Bikini

Sound tweezers levitate and manipulate small objects for noninvasive surgery and 3D displays

Plastic pollution discovered at deepest point of ocean

For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

Rising Waters Are Drowning Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor

NASA’s InSight Lander Plops Seismometer on Mars to Hunt Marsquakes

World’s Oldest Flower Unfurled Its Petals More Than 174 Million Years Ago

Meet the last horsemen of these paradise islands

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Puzzling Montana Shooting Blamed on Sasquatch Mistake: ‘I Thought You Were Bigfoot’

Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain

These Dinosaurs’ Noses Made Breathing Complicated for a Very Good Reason

Vintage Scotch whiskies found to be fake

Is quantum computing a cybersecurity threat?

Iron Is the New Cholesterol

How the CIA Watched Soviet Parades for New Military Tech

Google’s Earth: how the tech giant is helping the state spy on us

I Went to China to Race a New Car. Then Things Got Weird

Advanced digital networks look a lot like the human nervous system

In the Ancient Valleys of Macedonia, a Pall of Air Pollution

China’s Bizarre Program to Keep Activists in Check

This Humongous Fungus Has Been Around Since the Birth of Socrates

How a weird fire vortex sparked a meteorological mystery

The submariner who attended his own funeral

The fallen metropolis: the collapse of Caracas, the jewel of Latin America

The Machines That Spy on Antarctica’s Hidden Lakes

Breakthrough ultrasound treatment to reverse dementia moves to human trials

Nasa’s New Horizons probe on course for historic flyby

Houseplant with added rabbit DNA could reduce air pollution, study shows

The Chemical Weapons Detectives

Bronze Age regicide? German forensics team say prince of Helmsdorf was murdered

Having a second child worsens parents’ mental health: new research

A conversation with a false rock god

Big dinosaur predator from Italy was given a burial at sea

There’s no easy fix for our nuclear past

The Nantucket Sea-Serpent Hoax (1937)

DNA sugar can form in space, experiments show

This Native American Nation Maintained Canals In The Face Of Flooding For Over 1000 Years

People fall off cruise ships with alarming regularity. Can anything be done to stop it?

Rare relic is one of only three fossil clouds known in the universe

Matter Sucked in by Black Holes May Travel into the Future, Get Spit Back Out

Can Rivers Cause Earthquakes?

Digital cadavers are replacing real ones. But should they?