Marine Electric: The Wreck that Changed the Coast Guard Forever

New Map of Dark Matter Spanning 10 Million Galaxies Hints at a Flaw in Our Physics

A prison nurse said her husband died in a fire. Then police discovered her relationship with a murderer.

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Helle’s toilet: 12th-century three-person loo seat goes on display

Left to Their Own Devices, Pricing Algorithms Resort to Collusion

You know kilo, mega, and giga. Is the metric system ready for ronna and quecca?

Life probably exists beyond Earth. So how do we find it?

Monster Magnetar Pinpointed as Trigger of Ultrabright Stellar Detonation

Female human body blocks weak sperm, scientists find

Moving artificial leaves out of the lab and into the air

Most Americans don’t realize what companies can predict from their data

Strep A bacteria kill half a million a year. Why don’t we have a vaccine?

Shopping in Pyongyang, and Other Adventures in North Korean Capitalism

A new study finds that small teams of researchers do more innovative work than large teams do

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How 18th-Century Writers Created the Genre of Popular Science

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Love, Sex, and Cyanide—The Private Life of a Toxic Butterfly

The Secret History of Women in Coding

New clue in curious case of cassowary casque

New study suggests possibility of recent underground volcanism on Mars

Digging up the past: 40,000 skeletons being exhumed to make room for London train station

James Clerk Maxwell Telescope discovers flare 10 billion times more powerful than those on the sun

Inside the decadent love affair of Cleopatra and Mark Antony

Rare African black leopard captured by camera trap’s extraordinary photos

No One Really Knows What to Do With All of America’s Unclaimed Corpses

Nasa makes final attempt to communicate with Mars rover

Parkland: A Year After the School Shooting That Was Supposed to Change Everything

The Bizarre Planets That Could Be Humanity’s New Homes

Decolonizing Science Writing in South Africa

El Chapo Trial: Why His I.T. Guy Had a Nervous Breakdown

How the Brain Creates a Timeline of the Past

Explorers Discover the Wreck of the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet, Sunk in World War II

Impossible Cookware and Other Triumphs of the Penrose Tile

“Eskimos Have Fifty Words for Snow” is an amazing phrase, because every word in it is wrong.

How a 25-Inch Plot of Land in Greenwich Village Embodied ‘a Resistance’

Fossilized Tubes Point to Super-Ancient Mobile Organisms

America’s Pistachio Industry Came From a Single Seed

Skeleton of Teen Girl Found Buried Next to Mysterious Pyramid in Egypt

An earthquake lasted 50 days, but no one felt it. Here’s why.

Study Details How Phone Companies Prey on Families of Inmates in Local Jails

Hong Kong, Crossroads of the Criminal Wildlife Trade

The Swiss town obsessed with the number 11

Stonehenge, other ancient rock structures may trace their origins to monuments like this

The Tiny Swiss Company That Thinks It Can Help Stop Climate Change

Heineken claims its business helps Africa. Is that too good to be true?

Photos: 40 years since the Iranian Revolution

Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent

‘I tried to keep my unborn child secret from Facebook and Google’

The Long, Weird History of Strobe Weapons

Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way

Global insect decline may see ‘plague of pests’

People Who Are Most Fearful Of Genetically Modified Foods Think They Know The Most About Them, But Actually Know The Least

Mouse toes partially regrown after amputation thanks to two proteins

Lise Meitner – the forgotten woman of nuclear physics who deserved a Nobel Prize

Edwin Smith Papyrus: The 3,600-Year-Old Textbook of Surgery

The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting ‘Vinegar Valentines’ of the Victorian Era

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