Earth is missing a huge part of its crust. Now we may know why.

Ultracold atoms can make strange and beautiful quantum fireworks

ESA sets clock by distant spinning stars

Scientists Just Melted a Hole Through 3,500 Feet of Ice to Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake

Elucidating Cuttlefish Camouflage

Finally declassified: Swedish pilots awarded US Air Medals for saving SR-71 spy plane

How to Memorize the Largest Known Prime

How mountains of U.S. plastic waste ended up in Malaysia, broken down by workers for $10 a day

Woman Develops Donor’s Peanut Allergy After Lung Transplant

New Horizons heads for flyby of space rock 4bn miles from Earth

Teddy Roosevelt’s Critique of Ostrich Science

Your Brain Rewards You Twice When You Eat

Scientists Got Fruit Flies Drunk and Maybe Figured Out Why We Get Buzzed

What Kinds of Food Do You Serve at a Funeral?

Cyber-attack disrupts distribution of multiple US newspapers

The world should update its laws on outer space

‘For 30 years I’ve been obsessed by why children get leukaemia. Now we have an answer’

Arborists Have Cloned Ancient Redwoods From Their Massive Stumps

Second explorer completes Antarctic crossing

A Single Cell Hints at a Solution to the Biggest Problem in Computer Science

How Hawaii’s Volcanoes Could Help Us Find Life on Saturn’s Icy Moon

How to Dump 3,000 Pounds of Confetti on Times Square

Scientists model Mercury’s glaciers

The breakthroughs that could save our lives

How a pair of men in St. John’s survived the last duel fought on Canadian soil

This Napoleonic Soldier Survived For Two Months With Horrific Facial Wound Following 1812 Battle

Nancy Grace Roman, astronomer celebrated as ‘mother’ of Hubble, dies at 93

Earthquake-detecting balloons could help reveal the internal structure of Venus

How TV shows use serious archaeology to promote bogus history

The USSR Planned a Super Sub That Launched Rockets and Delivered Tanks

This May Be Life’s ‘Missing Ingredient’

Chilling discovery: ice house discovered under London street

An Elephant’s Personhood on Trial

Blue Light Appears Above New York After Transformer Explosion at Con Edison Plant in Queens

How Metal Thieves Pulled off a 100-ton Heist in Rotterdam

35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here is what he wrote

Collecting clean water from air, inspired by desert life

‘Spaghetti’ Magnetic Fields Might Be Powering Cosmic Particle Accelerators

Finally, US hospitals will have to post their prices online

Austinite Richard Overton, America’s Oldest Veteran, Dies At 112

This clever and stylish 1960 film is the most fun you’ll ever have at a physics lecture

Firefighters spray water from high-rises to fight air pollution in India

In 12 Minutes, Everything Went Wrong

Man Gets Black Widow Spider Bite. Then He Can’t Pee.

How a Real-Estate Scuffle Turned into a True Tale of Miami Vice

List of BBC reporters in Russia leaked online along with their photos

If alien civilizations exist, could we spot their industrial footprints in space?

French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin, 71, sets off on voyage across the Atlantic in a barrel

PSA: How to watch coverage of mission activities if the US government is still shut down during the New Horizons’ Ultima Thule flyby

Video: Aliens under the Ice – Life on Rogue Planets

What Defines a Stem Cell?

Shocking Stories of Survival

Explorer completes historic Antarctic trek

How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually.

As Light Pollution Spreads, National Parks Become Stargazing Sanctuaries

How many dimensions are there, and what do they do to reality?

The Complete History of the Autopsy

Go behind the scenes of NASA’s farthest-ever flyby mission

The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre

One Giant Step for a Chess-Playing Machine