Why Is Uranus The Only Planet Without Interesting Features On It?

UV light may help birds navigate forests

Why your new heart could be made in space one day

Yorimitsu and Shuten-Dôji: The drunken demon of Kyoto

Man with ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Watches Computer Icons Leap Off Screen

Iraqi scientist says he helped ISIS make chemical weapons

How Ants Sniff Out the Right Path

What we do and don’t know about gut health

Oceans Are Getting Louder, Posing Potential Threats to Marine Life

Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

DNA study debunks Rudolf Hess impostor theory

Video: What Did We Leave on the Moon & What Will Happen to it in the Future?

On this day in 1968 North Korean forces seized the USS Pueblo

The Treasure Behind the Wall

The new elite’s phoney crusade to save the world – without changing anything

Four Types of Stars That Will Not Exist for Billions or Even Trillions of Years

The Language Debate Inside Japan’s Convenience Stores

Lifting the veil on the black hole at the heart of our Galaxy

‘Ancient’ Stone Circle Actually Built in 1990s by Scottish Farmer

‘Blindsight’ explained: there’s a neural shortcut

Smart microrobots that can adapt to their surroundings

Researchers develop a machine learning method to identify fake honey

Genetics extends the long arm of the law

In China, a link between happiness and air quality

Researchers Find A Web Of Factors Behind Multiple Sclerosis

The Secrets of Lyndon Johnson’s Archives

Massive Storms Swirl on Jupiter in This Awesome NASA Photo

Is it Planet Nine or a massive disc?

Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed by a deranged woman. At 29, he almost died.

Is Only-Child Syndrome Real?

Archaeology reveals Cold War nuclear bunkers in Poland

Faecal transplant researchers identify ‘super-pooper’ donors

Pollution in India Could Reshape Monsoons

What the earliest fragments of English reveal

Cleaning New York’s filthy harbor with one billion oysters [autoplay video]

‘The bed that saved me from the Taliban’

Scientist Who Edited Babies’ Genes Is Likely to Face Charges in China

Unscrambling the Hidden Secrets of Superpermutations

Inside a ‘Making a Murderer’ Lawsuit and the Hidden Dangers of TV’s True-Crime Craze

Moqui Marbles And Martian Blueberries

25,000 Years Later, Javelin Is Still Embedded in Mammoth’s Rib

A clearer picture of how massive stars die

Paramount Was Hollywood’s ‘Mountain.’ Now It’s a Molehill.

Coups and murder: the sinister world of apartheid’s secret mercenaries

The Inside Story of How We Got Two Warring Fyre Festival Documentaries in the Same Week

Inverted Grand Canyon

They said I’d go blind. Now gene therapy has changed that

These “church forests” protect Ethiopia’s fragile landscapes

How Scientific Chance and a Little Luck Helped Usher in the Nuclear Age

Physicists stimulate Hawking radiation from optical analogue of a black hole

Damning court docs show just how far Sacklers went to push OxyContin

A group of amateur treasure hunters are searching for Jose Gaspar’s treasure. Does it matter that the legendary pirate didn’t exist?

Virtual cities: Designing the metropolises of the future

Are Psychopaths Attractive to Other Psychopaths?

Honey Bees’ Oddly Hypnotizing ‘Shimmering’ Is Actually a Clever Defense

Illicit images of secretive rituals

Online experiment finds that less than 1 in 10 people can tell sponsored content from an article

Two hundred years ago, it was hard for Americans to miss the message that they had a serious drinking problem

Elephants are evolving to be tuskless after decades of poaching pressure

To Save the Sound of a Stradivarius, a Whole City Must Keep Quiet