Neil Armstrong: First Man on the Moon, and Its First Great Geologist

Ancient life awakens amid thawing ice caps and permafrost

Without parking, thousands of Americans who live in vehicles have nowhere to go

The California coast is disappearing under the rising sea. Our choices are grim

Why Do Gravitational Waves Travel Exactly At The Speed Of Light?

The Faults That Ruptured in Twin California Quakes Are Very, Very Weird, Geologists Say.

Texas A&M Chemists Develop Nanoscale Bioabsorbable Wound Dressing

If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time

A new old home for the nation’s dinosaurs

How to Tell If Someone Is Bugging or Tracking You

The science behind California’s two big earthquakes

‘How a video game community filled my nephew’s final days with joy’

Why you shouldn’t feed wild animals (except maybe birds)

Viking Grave Discovery In Sweden Leaves Archaeologists Stunned

Your Nose Knows When It Comes to Stronger Memories

What Good Does a Pacemaker Do in a Corpse?

The Pioneering Female Doctor Who Argued Against Rest

We are stardust. And Big Bang dust.

The living hell of children trapped in Dhaka’s brothels

The Dawning Truth about Night Owls

How a childhood of anger led the founder of 8chan to create one of the darkest corners of the internet

How the Manson Killings Gripped Los Angeles

Where pilots and flight attendants sleep on long flights

Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way

How Britain can help you get away with stealing millions: a five-step guide

No, The Laws Of Physics Are Not The Same Forwards And Backwards In Time

Physicists Find a New Way to Make Hybrid ‘Particles’ That Are Part-Matter, Part-Light

A math equation that predicts the end of humanity

These superbug-fighting viruses are making a comeback

The Most Famous Band You’ve Never Heard Of

Magnetic Materials Help Explain How Arctic Ice Melts

The Airplanes That Rescue Ebola Patients

India’s forgotten power broker—what was her secret?

Vietnam’s vast underground world

DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think

Slavery ring that forced 400 people to work for 50p a day is broken

Stored in Synapses: How Scientists Completed a Map of the Roundworm’s Brain

So far cultured meat has been burgers – the next big challenge is animal-free steaks

Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe

X-ray images of quasars, supermassive black holes spinning at near the speed of light, appearing as multiple points due to gravitational lensing

Experience: I went jogging and lost my leg

Why Waves of Seaweed Have Been Smothering Caribbean Beaches

Pioneering surgery brings movement back to paralysed hands

Before America Got Uncle Sam, It Had to Endure Brother Jonathan

Extremely Rare Lava Lake Discovered on Remote British Island

During a Solar Eclipse, What Are Plants Doing?

Oregon’s Tsunami Risk: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

We Need Insects More Than They Need Us

Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

Decades ago, he stole a tree branch. Now he is the Durian King

Micronutrient deficiencies affect two billion people worldwide

‘I bit off its tongue – it was in my mouth’: the man who survived a bear attack

The Dubious Past of the Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest

Why We’re Patriotic: Whether it’s our country or our football team, we need to belong

How our brain sculpts experience in line with our expectations

Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus Is Likely the ‘Perfect Age’ to Harbor Life

Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld

A raging heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s yearlong, 30-bank robbery spree

Astronomers ponder halos around galaxies