Move Over, San Andreas: There’s an Ominous New Fault in Town

The world’s largest, deepest freshwater lake is home to hundreds of species that don’t live anywhere else on Earth

Prinkipo Orphanage: Europe’s Oldest Wooden Building

Global Warming Is Already Costing the Insurance Industry Historic Amounts

This new species of ancient carnivore was bigger than a polar bear

Two new studies investigate the habitability of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, three of which are in the ‘goldilocks’ zone

Scientists invent way to trap mysterious ‘dark world’ particle at Large Hadron Collider

How Columbine became a blueprint for school shooters

Oliver Sacks: The Healing Power of Gardens

Two murders stumped police for 40 years. The key was sitting in a bathroom cabinet.

The ancient memories trapped in the world’s glaciers

Hubble Celebrates its 29th Birthday with Unrivaled View of the Southern Crab Nebula

A Harvard Medical School scientist has developed AI to predict the 3D structure of proteins a million times faster than conventional methods

Fragile historic buildings open doors to virtual visitors

Why Archaeologists Are Studying 10,000-Year-Old Urine

Burned to death for reporting sexual harassment

Look What the Cat Dragged In: Parasites

How to identify a body: the Marchioness disaster and my life in forensic pathology

How Did This Tiny Little Star Make Such a Big Sparkle?

Would life be happier without Google? I spent a week finding out

Gene therapy cures infants with ‘bubble boy’ immune disease

How a Chicago Woman Fell Victim to Candida Auris, a Drug-Resistant Fungus

NASA plans to send humans to an icy part of the moon for the first time

‘Partly Alive’: Scientists Revive Cells in Brains From Dead Pigs

Most ancient type of molecule in universe detected in space

The Hotshots of Helltown

What Happened Before the Big Bang?

“Global measles crisis” as WHO reports cases up 300% from last year

Peru ex-president Garcia shoots himself as police try to arrest him

Engineers create ‘lifelike’ material with artificial metabolism

‘When the Glaciers Disappear, Those Species Will Go Extinct’

20 years ago today a glider was struck by ‘positive lightning’, an unusual, powerful meteorological phenomenon

‘Calling bullshit’: the college class on how not to be duped by the news

Liquid Blood Extracted From 42,000-Year-Old Foal Found Frozen in Siberia

You Can Now Smell a Flower That Went Extinct a Century Ago

In Notre Dame fire, echoes of the 1837 blaze that destroyed Russia’s Winter Palace

Sex-selective abortions may have stopped the birth of 23 million girls

The Dreams You Can’t Remember Might Never Have Occurred

In a battle for readers, two media barons sparked a war in the 1890s

Notre-Dame Attic Was Known as ‘the Forest.’ And It Burned Like One.

‘Why I write fake online reviews’

Dentistry is much less scientific—and more prone to gratuitous procedures—than you may think

LIGO Is Up and Running Again and Already Spotted Two Possible Black Hole Mergers

First U.S. Patients Treated With CRISPR As Gene-Editing Human Trials Get Underway

The Children of the Children of Columbine

How 5G is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk

The Quest for the Most Elusive Material in Physics

What’s New About Conspiracy Theories?

Selfie Deaths Are an Epidemic

Exploding Aphids Plaster Holes in Their Home With Bodily Fluids

Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary system

How air pollution is doing more than killing us

Weatherwatch: the science behind lightning’s crackle

When Doctors Thought ‘Wanderlust’ Was a Psychological Condition

1,060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) captured by Amateur Astronomers

Low-intensity ultrasound can change decision-making process in the brain, research shows

Stonehenge: DNA reveals origin of builders

Investors are using real-time satellite images to predict the performance of companies like Walmart, Starbucks, and Whole Foods

How long do neutrons live? Physicists close in on decades-old puzzle

The Coming Obsolescence of Animal Meat