The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice

Found: British author of 50-year-old message in a bottle that washed up in Australia

The Launch of the Cosmic Crisp

Video: Flying the final approach to Tranquility Base

“The Kennedy Machine Buried What Really Happened”: Revisiting Chappaquiddick, 50 Years Later

Can humans navigate by sensing the Earth’s magnetic field?

Wandering Space Rocks Help Solve Mysteries of Planet Formation

On the Fine (and Difficult) Art of Science Writing

The Tragic, Violent History of the Brooklyn Waterfront

Hollywood’s Doom Book and other Tales of Blacklisting in American Cinema

On this day in 1962 a portable atomic gun was tested in Nevada

The legacy of the Romanovs: how is the last Russian royal family remembered in Russia?

The D.C. Race War of 1919 — And the forgotten story of one African American girl accused of murdering a police officer.

How expectation influences perception

Your Smart Toaster Can’t Hold a Candle to the Apollo Computer

Some People Are Taking ‘Storming Area 51’ More Seriously Than Others

Video: An Astronaut’s Guide to Eating in Space

A barefoot woman scaled the face of Mount Rushmore, officials say. She almost made it to the top.

Notre-Dame came far closer to collapsing than people knew. This is how it was saved.

Where the Bodies are Buried

Italian forest rangers on the hunt of ‘escape genius’ bear

In pictures: 9,000 year-old settlement found in Israel

Southern Italy’s centuries-long dancing mania

Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?

HIV’s genetic code, extracted from a nub of tissue, adds to evidence of virus’ emergence in humans a century ago

The Legend of Bingen’s Mouse Tower

The U.S. Army Is Building a Smarter Land Mine

Was Bitcoin Created by This International Drug Dealer? Maybe!

Radiation Levels at the Marshall Islands Remain Disturbingly High

The Murderer, the Writer, the Reckoning

Did we mishear Neil Armstrong’s famous first words on the Moon?

Ed Dwight Was Set to Be the First Black Astronaut. Here’s Why That Never Happened.

Photo: Neil Armstrong’s family watching Saturn V launch him to the Moon 50 years ago today

Do our pets ever really love us – or do they just stick around for the food?

The Con Man Who Became a True-Crime Writer

Apollo 11 launch: Watch the most memorable moments from CBS News’ coverage [including the vintage ads]

A Visit with the Glacier Squad

Small horned dinosaur from China, a Triceratops relative, walked on two feet

The battle to separate Safa and Marwa

How to fight a war in space (and get away with it)

These scientists found 2,500 years of economic history frozen in ice

Eclipses make animals do strange things

The Promise and Price of Cellular Therapies

The Secret World of Air Traffic Controllers

The habitability of Titan and its ocean

Striped Maples Can Change Sex Repeatedly

Is It Time to Play With Spaceships Again?

Anorexia not just a psychiatric problem, scientists find

We Have The First-Ever Images of Molecules Changing Their Charge State

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