There’s a Ticking Time Bomb in the Constellation of Orion…

Aspirin: The First Wonder Drug

Inside the Mind of a Hurricane Chaser

Depression, obesity, chronic pain could be treated by targeting the same key protein

Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa? Lander Design Team Hopes to Be the Ones to Find It

69 Million Years Ago, Crested Duck-Billed Dinosaurs Roamed the Warm, Forested Arctic

Europe Stores Electricity in Gas Pipes

Millions of Americans have taken antidepressants for many years. What happens when it’s time to stop?

32 Women Who’ve Changed Life As We Know It

The surprising reason polar bears need sea ice to survive

A Leonardo Made a $450 Million Splash. Now There’s No Sign of It.

The Hidden Air Pollution in Our Homes

Physicists Just Detected a Very Odd Particle That Isn’t a Particle at All

MIT and NASA engineers demonstrate a new kind of airplane wing

After China’s deadly chemical disaster, a shattered region weighs cost of the rush to ‘get rich’

A world isolated from life by 1,400km

No word of a lie: scientists rate the world’s biggest peddlers of bull

Ancient monument reveals secrets of horrific battle with Cleopatra that gave birth to the Roman Empire [autoplay video]

What an Everest Climb Looks Like in 2019

The World’s Greatest Delivery Empire

‘Ching, wap, ox’: slang interpreters decipher texts for court evidence

Mount Everest: Melting glaciers expose dead bodies

The bizarre story of the L.A. dad who exposed the college admissions scandal

Russia Ordered a Killing That Made No Sense. Then the Assassin Started Talking.

How Vitamins Went From Medical Marvel to Marketing Scam

The Perfect Irony That ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ Film Was Also a Real-Life Scam

The keeper of the secret

How Sovereign Citizens Helped Swindle $1 Billion From the Government They Disavow

England’s oldest man says the secret to a long life is ‘avoid dying’

Cryptic pregnancies: ‘I didn’t know I was having a baby until I saw its head’

The Tiger and the Tragic Trick: Siegfried & Roy’s Animal Handler Breaks Silence on Mauling, Alleges Cover-Up

The Deadly Price of the Automation Paradox

Here’s What the Speed of Light Looks Like in Slow Motion

How Pain Tolerance and Anxiety Seem to Be Connected

Kuiper Belt Objects Are as Mysterious as They Are Distant

For Centuries, Know-It-Alls Carried Beautiful Miniature Almanacs Wherever They Went

The story of the dacoit who spread violence to influence India’s first general elections

How cherry blossoms came to the United States

When a massive Caribbean volcano erupts, the island’s residents flee, leaving their beloved animals behind

Here’s why a system designed to stabilize the 737 Max may have caused two deadly crashes in five months

By finding two galaxies severely lacking in dark matter, researchers have made a compelling case for the existence of the mysterious material

How the Little Ice Age Changed History

From moms to medical doctors, burnout is everywhere these days

Ghost Villages Are for Sale in Spain

There’s a Troubling Link Between Believing Conspiracy Theories And Petty Crime

Proof Finds That All Change Is a Mix of Order and Randomness

3D-printed material is designed to treat difficult bone injuries

What Happens When a Meteorite Hits a House?

Closing in on a century-old mystery, scientists are figuring out what the body’s ‘tuft cells’ do

4 things we’ll learn from the first closeup image of a black hole

Military Tries Out Fish as Underwater Spies

How to Avoid a Meteor

Volcanoes! Lightning! And Radioactive Gas, Too

‘The Most Wonderful Map in the World’: Urbano Monte’s Planisphere of 1587

NASA’s Cassini Finds Saturn’s Rings Coat Tiny Moons

NASA Wants to Place Calls to Deep Space With X-Rays

Last of the giants: What killed off Madagascar’s megafauna a thousand years ago?

The Salton Sea is a disaster in the making. California isn’t doing anything to stop it

The Lost History of One of the World’s Strangest Science Experiments

Portugal baby born to woman brain dead for three months