John Lennon and Yoko Ono shared their bed with the world 50 years ago — a plea for peace

Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control)

The planet’s prodigious poo problem

Why Would an Animal Trade One Body for Another?

Computer model suggests that Jupiter formed much further from the sun and migrated inwards over a period of 700,000 years

Inside the Surveillance Program IBM Built for Rodrigo Duterte

‘A State of Emergency’: Native Americans Stranded for Days by Flooding

On the Trail of the Robocall King

‘A Swiss cheese-like material’ that can solve equations

How Filmmakers Created Fake Newsreels in the 1920s

An Elusive Whale Is Found All Around the World

Ketamine: can it really be an antidepressant?

A Peek Inside the Extremely Metal Life of Lava Crickets

Passengers recount harrowing hours aboard stranded cruise ship facing 26-foot swells off Norway’s coast

Lithuanian Pleads Guilty to Stealing $100 Million From Google, Facebook

Survivor of Guatemalan massacre seeks justice

The lemonade enema

One of the Worst Earthquakes in Korea’s History Was Caused by Humans

Dear MESSENGER: How unmasking Mercury brought art to life

Drugged orangutan found in Russian’s airline luggage

Exoplanet tally set to pass 4,000 mark

There’s a reason England was able to harness geniuses like Isaac Newton

Bug Scientists Squash ‘Insect Apocalypse’ Paper

Astronomers Find Fossils of Early Universe Stuffed in Milky Way’s Bulge

What was the Cold War?

‘I wrote a story that became a legend. Then I discovered it wasn’t true.’

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Villain or Visionary? Wernher Von Braun: The Father of Rocket Science

A More Humane Livestock Industry, Brought to You by Crispr

Psychology may help explain why male and female serial killers differ

These x-rays of seeds turn biology into art

Science Says: Tiny ‘water bears’ can teach us about survival

Mongolia’s epic celebration at -40C

USAF Plans For Its “Skyborg” AI Computer Brain To Be Flying Drones In The Next Two Years

The Mortician and the Murderer

Those Midwestern Floods Are Expected to Get Much, Much Worse

Scientists rise up against statistical significance

An Impossible Scenario: Scientists Watch as Heat Moves at the Speed of Sound

The Old Daytime-Drinking, Sexual-Harassing Ways Are Thriving at Lloyd’s

Dirty lies: how the car industry hid the truth about diesel emissions

Navy Ready to ‘Burn the Boats’ with 2021 Laser Installation on a Destroyer

The Mola Is a Giant Bag of Secrets

‘Mindblowing’ haul of fossils over 500m years old unearthed in China

The Fight to Tame a Swelling River With Dams That May Be Outmatched by Climate Change

A Twin Inside a Twin: In Colombia, an Extraordinary Birth

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The Biology of Death-Feigning

Chop Up a Worm. It Will Regenerate. Scientists Figured Out Why.

‘Super-smeller’ helps develop swab test for Parkinson’s disease

On Pluto, It’s Been Spring Since 1990

An exclusive tour of the restoration of Apollo mission control

LHCb discovers matter-antimatter asymmetry in charm quarks

Edvard Munch’s Scream isn’t screaming, says British Museum

‘There Is No Reason to Cross the U.S. by Train. But I Did It Anyway.’

Stats Experts Plead: Just Say No to P-Hacking

HK G11: The Space-Age Rifle That Never Was

Aging Is a Communication Breakdown

What are the values that drive decision making by AI?

Quantum Machine Appears to Defy Universe’s Push for Disorder

How to move a masterpiece: the secret business of shipping priceless artworks