How (Relatively) Simple Symmetries Underlie Our Expanding Universe

Is It Okay to Laugh at Florida Man?

What the Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact Taught Us

Rare Human-Sized Giant Jellyfish Caught On Camera

Headed to Mars? Pack Some Aerogel—You Know, for Terraforming

This is now the world’s largest volcano, geologists say

Explaining a Novel to Pakistani Intelligence

What Leonardo da Vinci Couldn’t Finish

The real midlife crisis confronting many Americans

New face of the Bank of England’s £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing

The women who win hundreds of sweepstakes per year

An Epidemic of Disbelief

Three People Lived in This Village Until Two Were Murdered.

Five stars or fake? How to beat fraudulent online reviews

Interstellar Probe, a mission concept for NASA, aims to travel 93 billion miles past the sun

Margaret Hamilton was in charge of the software for the 1969 Apollo moon landing

Mysterious illness that paralyzes healthy kids prompts plea from CDC

How U.S. Tech Giants Are Helping to Build China’s Surveillance State

Trash Talk: On Translating Garbage

Scientists unveil the first-ever image of quantum entanglement

Scientists Are Genetically Engineering Plants to Fight Climate Change

Urinary Tract Infections Affect Millions. The Cures Are Faltering.

Neanderthals Were About as Right-Handed as Modern Humans

It’s Hard To Win At Poker Against An Opponent With No Tell

AI made from a sheet of glass can recognise numbers just by looking

First Moon landing was nearly a US–Soviet mission

Gallery: UNESCO Adds 29 New World Heritage Sites to Its List of Landmarks

Why Dogs Now Play a Big Role in Human Cancer Research

Egypt Opens Ancient Pyramids for First Time Since 1960s

Brain implant restores partial vision to blind people

Powerful X-ray telescope launches to map cosmos

Why New Zealanders Love DIY Coffins

Bats regurgitate nectar for their babies—a new discovery

Half a million people signed up to storm Area 51. What happens if they actually show up?

Would you drink camel milk?

Found: 15 Wallets From the 1940s, Stolen and Stashed Behind a Bathroom Wall

Alien moon likely seen forming in first-of-its-kind picture

Skyfall: How America’s First Space Station Returned to Earth

Pair of supermassive black holes discovered on a collision course

The US land forever leased to England

Superstrong artificial muscle can lift 1000 times its own weight

The sticky problem of plastic wrap

How sounds, shapes, speech and body movements convey emotion through one shared property

Why Siberia Drives on the Wrong Side of the Road

The rise of the ‘vanlords’: renting out parked vans as living spaces in California

30 Years Later, a Sunken Soviet Sub Is Still Leaking Radioactivity

Surveillance Cameras Debunk the Bystander Effect

These Photos Reveal the Pollination Secrets of Florida’s Most Elusive Flower

The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Mirrors

The College That Became a Prison

The 25-billion-dollar gamble

Video: Where Are All the Bob Ross Paintings? We Found Them [10:50]

Generalise, don’t specialise: why focusing too narrowly is bad for us

Found: A Seditious Cufflink From the Colonial Resistance Wardrobe

Reckoning With My Mother’s Kidnapping

The Vietnam War Was Already Lost, but I Had to Go Anyway

Japanese space probe Hayabusa 2: Second touchdown on asteroid Ryugu

How a Volunteer Firefighter Became a Serial Arsonist

Why Men Thought Women Weren’t Made to Vote

The Neural Similarities Between Remembering and Imagining