The End of Economic Growth Is Inevitable. Let’s Plan for It.

Ultra ultrasound to revolutionise technology

The Ocean Is Hotter Than It’s Ever Been

Fukushima Residents Return Despite Radiation

What People Actually Say Before They Die: Insights into the little-studied realm of last words

When Fungi Fight Back

He appeared to lead a typical suburban life – but he was secretly involved in international espionage

How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend

Dangerous minds: the writers hounded by the FBI

Study: Alzheimer’s memory problems associated with greater leakage in brain’s blood vessels, regardless of abnormal proteins amyloid and tau

This Russian startup wants to put billboards in space. Astronomers aren’t impressed

A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body

Third Cat in Wyoming Diagnosed with Plague: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic

Call to correct Gulliver’s Travels food estimates

One climber’s pursuit of an unclimbed peak

Europe unveils successor to the Large Hadron Collider

Potatoes Have a Form of ‘Depression,’ but Scientists Have an Idea to Cure Them

One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

How fever helps combat disease has now been better understood

The Obsessive Quest of High Pointers

Physicists Built a Machine That Breaks the Normal Rules of Light

Hidden Beneath a Half Mile of Ice, Antarctic Lake Teems with Life

Unlocking a kingdom’s long-hidden treasures

How Alex Honnold made ‘the ultimate climb’—without a rope

“Mona Lisa effect” is real but doesn’t apply to Leonardo’s painting

Jayme Closs, Kidnapped by a Stranger, Endured Horror, Police Say

Watching Venezuela’s Last Glacier Disappear

Our pets: the key to the obesity crisis?

A Leaky Memory May Be a Good Thing

This Quadruple Star System Is Unlike Anything We’ve Ever Seen Before

Massive Harvard-led genetic twin study homes in on the nature versus nurture debate

No boss? No thanks. Why managers are more important than ever

Screens Might Be as Bad for Mental Health as … Potatoes

Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief?

Giant leaf for mankind? China germinates first seed on moon

100 years ago today a massive amount of molasses made a monumental morass in Massachusetts

Memories of eating influence your next meal – new research pinpoints brain cells involved

What It Was Like To Carry the U.S. Military’s Cold War Backpack Nuke

The Joy of Being a Woman in Her 70s

Modeling the Climates of Worlds Beyond Earth

DARPA Wants to Turn Insect Brains into Robot Brains

The Art of Decision-Making

Why Do We Blame Women For Prohibition?

The Shady Link Between Sunscreen and Your Health

How one German city developed – and then lost – generations of math geniuses

Russia and Japan negotiate World War II peace plan

Stunning 17th-Century Drawings of Comets, Planets, and Moon Phases by a Self-Taught Artist and Astronomer

Should Hyping Edible Bugs Focus On The Experience Instead Of The Environment?

How Wrong Should You Be?

Imaging ever closer to the event horizon

The world’s first celebrity photographer

DNA scientist James Watson stripped of honors over views on race

Dark Matter Behaves Differently in Dying Galaxies

Mutiny on the Sex Raft: how a 70s science project descended into violent chaos

Can China grow a flower on the moon? The countdown begins

Russia’s Only Space Telescope Has Stopped Responding to Commands

“I Was Conned by a Real-Life Dirty John”

The inside story of how three unlikely allies won World War II

‘Raining spiders’: airborne arachnids appear over south-east Brazil