The Bitcoin Bank Back From the Dead With Billions at Stake

Actors show different brain activity when in character, study finds

Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor

50 Years Later, Precious Moon Samples Will Finally Be Opened

Newly Remastered Archival Video Shows the Power of the First Nuclear Weapons Test

Two young sisters were lost in the woods. They used their wilderness training to survive.

In Spain, prisoners’ brains are being electrically stimulated in the name of science

Hundreds of Artifacts from Notorious Nazi Massacre Uncovered in German Forest

The Female Fossilist Who Became a Jurassic Period Expert

The Unintended Benefits Of Vaccines

Study: Loss of blood vessels in the retina could signal Alzheimer’s disease before other symptoms appear

Why So Many Babies Are Getting Their Tongues Clipped

Electrically syncing up brain regions improves depression in first-of-its-kind study

How secret conversations inside cells are transforming biology

Our Galaxy Could Have 50 Billion Rogue Planets

When Harper Lee Doodled in Shakespeare Class

‘Hobbit’ human story gets a twist, thanks to thousands of rat bones

A Genetic Basis for Insomnia Emerges from the Twilight

Pilot lived a mysterious double life. Then a plane crash exposed aliases, falsehoods and questions

Fake drugs kill more than 250,000 children a year, doctors warn

Saudi plane turns around after mother forgets baby at airport

Photos: An Ancient Ceremony to Celebrate the End of Winter

From Russia, With Thrusters

Your Environment Is Cleaner. Your Immune System Has Never Been So Unprepared.

A Bar at the Folies-Bergere: A symbol planted in cleavage

Tim Berners-Lee on 30 years of the web: ‘If we dream a little, we can get the web we want’

Two decades after vanishing, her daughter suddenly showed up with children, a new identity — and speaking Spanish

Living Near a Supermassive Black Hole

Jill the Ripper

Japan’s moon rover will be made by Toyota

This is what it’s like waking up during surgery

The Tragedy of Baltimore

Traces of Giant, 2,700-Year-Old Solar Storm Detected in Greenland Ice

Study: Infants as young as five months can differentiate laughter between friends and that between strangers

Sound by the Pound: Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass

LRO sheds light on lunar water movement

The Universe’s Ultimate Complexity Revealed by Simple Quantum Games

Why icing a sprain doesn’t help, and could slow recovery

Listening to quantum radio

Remembering the burglary that broke COINTELPRO

Time’s running out on daylight saving shift

How the Bauhaus Kept the Nazis at Bay, Until It Couldn’t

How Much Of The Unobservable Universe Will We Someday Be Able To See?

Engineering for the Long Haul, the NASA Way

How the Internet Travels Across Oceans

It’s 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

Stem cells divide faster in space

Radioactive Glass Beads May Tell the Terrible Tale of How the Fukushima Meltdown Unfolded

The Truth About People Who Have No Personality

Clean House to Survive? Museums Confront Their Crowded Basements

Sloths in the Water

Here’s What We Know About Planet Nine

What Happened to the Uber-for-X Companies

The Prankster Physicist: Richard Feynman

The Curious Reason Some Icebergs Are Green

The final indignity for ‘El Negro’, laid to rest in wrong country

The rise, set and rise of daylight saving time

An Antibody-Inspired Small Molecule Could Make For A Better Flu Treatment

Italian scholars unveil Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’

The Secrets of the Prague Astronomical Clock