Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers

A Mother Learns the Identity of Her Child’s Grandmother. A Sperm Bank Threatens to Sue.

Found: A 50-Year-Old Scientific Message, Stuffed in a Bottle

Killer whales eat dolphins. So why are these dolphins tempting fate?

Telling porkies: no, Peppa Pig is not giving American kids British accents

Why an Outlaw Was Stabbed to Death and Then Buried Face-Down in Medieval Sicily

The shady economics of ‘buy one, get one free’ deals

This Was The Last Photo Taken By NASA’s Opportunity Rover On Mars

The Army’s Next Infantry Guns Will Have Computerized Fire Control for Unreal Accuracy

A Whale’s Afterlife

Neutron star collisions hold key to universe expansion

The plot to assassinate George Washington — and how it was foiled

The truth about Hannibal’s route across the Alps

Saving the Bats, One Cave at a Time

The hunt for the fish pirates who exploit the sea

Searching Tardigrades for Lifesaving Secrets

You and your poo: Why fecal medicine could be the next big buzz

Is This the Footprint of One of the Last Neandertals?

‘Every Day Is A Good Day When You’re Floating’: Anne McClain Talks Life In Space

Common gut virus linked to coeliac disease

A suspected killer eluded capture for 25 years. Then investigators got his aunt’s DNA.

Did Henry VI have a sex coach in his marriage bed?

Smartwatches Are Changing the Purpose of the EKG

The Enduring Mystery of the Martian ‘Blueberries’ Discovered by Opportunity Rover

Cemetery Guns And Coffin Torpedoes

Landmarks in law: when female lawyers were declared ‘people’

Sky Islands And Starry-Eyed Frogs: Breathtaking Photos Of Remote Ecosystems

The Lost Art of Floating Logs Down the River

New ‘astonishing’ tarantula has strange horn on its back

This 1920s Concept for a Drive-Through Grocery Store Completely Failed

Space Harpoon Successfully Snatches Floating Hunk of Space Junk

Jokers please: first human Mars mission may need onboard comedians

Why Rembrandt’s The Night Watch is still a mystery

How to Get Close to a Black Hole

Hundreds of anti-witch marks found in Midlands cave

What are the biggest threats to humanity?

Honeybees Enter Virtual Reality So Scientists Can Study Their Brains

Reality check: Can cat poop cause mental illness?

Archaeologists Dismantled a Maya Pyramid in Guatemala and Never Put It Back Together

Microdosing reduces depression and mind wandering but increases neuroticism, according to first-of-its-kind study

Why Do Humans Hear So Well? You Can Thank the Tiny ‘Jell-O’ Violin Inside Your Ear

Chernobyl: The end of a three-decade experiment

Muons reveal the whopping voltages inside a thunderstorm

Ancient Earth’s Weakened Magnetic Field May Have Driven Mass Extinction

Moon photos from the 1960s were developed in space—here’s how

Why America’s Northernmost City Is Having a Weird, Hot Winter

How the US has hidden its empire

Antarctica’s most extreme rescue mission

‘I Fell Under the Spell of NASA’s Most Notorious Thief’

Algorithmically generated images of human faces based on “deep learning” (refresh page for new image)

Photos From the Opportunity Rover’s Mission on Mars

Images From Antarctica

Pompeii: Narcissus fresco uncovered by archaeologists

Two Satellites Almost Crashed. Here’s How They Dodged It

‘This Land Is Meant Only for Saffron. Without It, It Means Nothing.’

Step inside this massive cave labyrinth hidden under Borneo

Mysterious Quantum Rule Reconstructed From Scratch

When Divorce Was Off the Table, English Couples Dissolved Their Marriages With Beer

Video: Identical twins navigating life in South London with neurofibromatosis, a rare genetic disorder [11:24]

Meet the Amateur Astronomers Hunting for Spy Satellites