Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video

Confirmed: NASA Has Been Hacked

The invention that saved a million ships

Hack the Moon: An in-depth interactive history of the Apollo program

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?

An Ambitious Search for Aliens Came Up Short—so Astrobiologists Are Thinking Bigger

The secret life of Kim Jong Un

Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings

Night of the Living Painting

The Sky’s Creepiest Parasites

Smoke on the Water: 50 Years After the Cuyahoga Fire

Plastic wrapped in plastic: the wasteful reality of America’s grocery stores

Adrift in the Arctic

Apollo in 50 numbers: The workers

A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters.

The Narluga Is a Very Strange Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid

The fake French minister in a silicone mask who stole millions

Gallery: Unseen 9/11 photos bought at house clearance sale

The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science

The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder

Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?

House of a 1920s Lady Gaga

ESA’s new mission to intercept a comet

US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year, survey finds

Minimum Wage Still Can’t Pay For A Two-Bedroom Apartment Anywhere

How France is persuading its citizens to get vaccinated

From Two Bulls, 9 Million Dairy Cows

Can you stop yourself being infected with other peoples’ desires?

How to Turn a Quantum Computer Into the Ultimate Randomness Generator

Hypersonic Missiles Are Unstoppable. And They’re Starting a New Global Arms Race.

Catch me if you can: The American smuggler who left Indian police red-faced twice in the 1960s

Scientists amazed as Canadian permafrost thaws 70 years early

“Perhaps We’re Being Dense.” Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent the Printing Press

U.N. Reveals Contents of Secret Tape of Khashoggi’s Brutal Last Moments

They welcomed a robot into their family, now they’re mourning its death

Incredible Rock-Eating Shipworm Is First Of Its Kind

The rise of the only child: How America is coming around to the idea of ‘just one’

Meet ‘The Natter,’ Nazi Germany’s Wooden Rocket Plane

Photos: The Moods of Monument Valley

“Hulk”-like microorganisms in soil can survive high levels of gamma radiation

Boston Built a New Waterfront Just in Time for the Apocalypse

Drug screenings may be implemented at 2019 Burning Man

Meet Australia’s New Sex-Changing Tomato: Solanum Plastisexum

No, Black Holes Don’t Suck Everything Into Them

154 years ago this month, Sir Francis Galton published “Hereditary Talent and Character”, kicking off the eugenics movement

Women outperform men after Japan medical school stops rigging exam scores

A spider ate a possum. The photos are the ‘stuff of nightmares.’

Your Professional Decline Is Coming (Much) Sooner Than You Think

Why your emotions and senses go haywire on a plane

Balancing the Ledger on Juneteenth

‘Why do some people avoid news? Because they don’t trust us — or because they don’t think we add value to their lives?’

How to be a better tourist

Man caught smuggling dozens of live finches into New York inside hair rollers

The Immortal Mind of the Archive

Facebook moderators break their NDAs to expose desperate working conditions

Video: A Year Along the Geostationary Orbit

Video: The Movie That Accidentally Killed Almost Half Of Its Cast

Photograph lays bare reality of melting Greenland sea ice