The History Channel is Digging Up John Dillinger’s Body But Nobody Really Knows Why

How Does a Male Black Widow Find a Mate? Follow the Other Guys

‘Mystery’ over orthopaedic plate found inside huge crocodile

‘It won’t be long’: why a Honduran community will soon be under water

How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not

The Lost Art of Warez

Political polarization is about feelings, not facts

Victims, Families and America’s Thirst for True-Crime Stories

Physicists Peer Inside a Fireball of Quantum Matter

All of Those Products Are Making Your Skin Worse

The village that lost its country

There Are Places You Cannot Go

How to keep valuables safe: use cereal and toy boxes, say ex-burglars

We Need a New Science of Progress

The Sahara buried this ancient Roman city—preserving it for centuries

‘Mind-reading’ may help those who cannot speak

All spent nuclear fuel in the U.S. will soon end up in one place

Brain scans of incarcerated men reveal reduced gray matter in homicide offenders

Letters of the Damned: Exorcising the Curse of the Petrified Forest

The Maid Who Mapped the Heavens

Researchers model unihemispheric sleep in humans

On Hitler’s Last Desperate Plan to Destroy Paris

The Good Kind of Crazy: The Quest for Exotic Propulsion

Murder in the Moroccan Mountains

Researchers build artificial cells that sense and respond to their environment

A Brief and Awful History of the Lobotomy

Everything We Know About the Air Force’s Secret X-37B Spaceplane

The VR illusion that makes you think you have a spider’s body

Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

How the sound in your office affects your mood

The business of sleep

Humans Interbred with Four Extinct Hominin Species, Research Finds

A Cultural History of First Words

Potosí: the mountain of silver that was the first global city

Boar wars: how wild hogs are trashing European cities

Ancient Mars tsunami hints at surprisingly wet world

The forgotten ‘wolf children’ of World War II

A Photo Trip to Bagan, Myanmar

Reconsidering the other historic event that took place during the moon landing

The Invention of Money

Sun’s Puzzling Plasma Recreated in a Laboratory

What is a fogbow?

Mysterious Radiation Cloud Over Europe Traced to Secret Russian Nuclear Accident

The Creepy Anglerfish Comes to Light. (Just Don’t Get Too Close.)

Australia’s Mouse Plagues

Discovery of 3 Exoplanets in a System Just 73 Light-Years Away Has Scientists Excited

Why Do People Faint?

The Bizarre, Peaty Science of Arctic Wildfires

These gut bacteria prevent mice from becoming obese—what could that mean for us?

The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack

Today Is Not 24 Hours Long

A Recession Is Coming (Eventually). Here’s Where You’ll See It First.

Stanford physicists count sound particles with quantum microphone

‘It’s a superpower’: how walking makes us healthier, happier and brainier

Video: Tiny Bombs in your Blood – The Complement System

It’s time to highlight our fungus friends in our microbiomes

The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets

Ffordd Pen Llech: The World’s New Steepest Street

Quantum Darwinism Could Explain What Makes Reality Real

‘Who do you think they’re going to believe?’: Violinist Lara St. John says she was abused, silenced at elite Curtis Institute