Mauritania’s Iron Ore Train

How to catch a catfisher

Could Earth’s Oceans Ever Boil Away?

NASA Set to Demonstrate X-ray Communications in Space

Researchers peer inside the mind of the worm for clues on how memories form

This is the loneliest road in America

Zombie Stars Shine on after Mystery Detonations

Ong’s Hat: The Early Internet Conspiracy Game That Got Too Real

A diminutive new species of T. rex fills an important gap

The World’s Largest Bee Is Not Extinct

A town where most speak sign language

High risk: anti-vaxxers in the delivery ward

How Drug Company Ads Downplay Risks

Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon

The Surprising Reason Zebras Have Stripes

Supreme Court Limits Police Powers to Seize Private Property

The Language of Your Love Life

‘Our little brown rat’: first climate change-caused mammal extinction

The Big Money: How Cherokee Teenagers Prepare for a Financial Windfall

Scientists have discovered that grasses are able to short cut evolution by taking genes from their neighbours

Should We Kill Off Disease-Causing Pests?

The term “Miscegenation” was coined in an 1864 pamphlet by an anonymous author

Hot, Small, or Couch, Why Potatoes Make Great Idioms

Earth’s atmosphere stretches out to the moon – and beyond

Four-day week: trial finds lower stress and increased productivity

Citizen scientist finds ancient white dwarf star with enigmatic dust rings

This New Optical Device Could One Day Detect Plant Life on Distant Alien Worlds

With the best air pressure sensor ever on Mars, scientists find a mystery

When Kids Realize Their Whole Life Is Already Online

Scientists Release Controversial Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In High-Security Lab

Did Scientology Drive Kenneth Wayne Thompson to Commit Bloody Murder?

Why microwaving grapes creates a dazzling plasma light show

She was a maid at 9, wrote a hit song at 11 — and won a Grammy at 93

Why humans have evolved to drink milk

Grand Canyon visitors may have been exposed to radioactive material for two decades

Some Yellowstone geysers are getting more active—but why?

Infusions of young blood not proven ‘safe or effective’, US government warns

The Lab Discovering DNA in Old Books

Virgin of the Rocks: A subversive message hidden by Da Vinci

Flight reaches 801 mph as a furious jet stream packs record-breaking speeds

Hudson Yards Is a Gilded City Straight Out of a Billionaire’s Fantasy

This supermassive black hole sends jets ricocheting through its galaxy

New Squid Genome Shines Light on Symbiotic Evolution

Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker?

First privately-funded spacecraft to journey to moon set for launch

Simulated space journeys to help keep the peace on manned trips to Mars

Disturbingly Black Snow Has Blanketed Several Towns in Siberia

What Is the Great Blue Hole in Belize?

A Different Kind of Theory of Everything

Should Mental Disorders Have Names?

New research suggests that the 80 two-ton blocks of Stonehenge were transported 230km over land

Inside the Spittlebug’s Bubble Home

Are we on the road to civilisation collapse?

The Herbal Supplement That Might Be a Deadly Drug

The True Story Behind an Iconic Vietnam War Photo Was Nearly Erased — Until Now

How the world got hooked on palm oil

This Simple Optical Illusion Could Actually Cause a Delay in Your Brain

Exotic spiraling electrons discovered by physicists

The Devastating Allure of Medical Miracles

An 81 megapixel composite photo of the moon (link to full version in the reddit comments)