Survivors recount Nazi massacre at Sant’Anna di Stazzema

The journalist who exposed the Jeffrey Epsteins of Victorian London

Mass shooters seek notoriety, and the media provide it. Is there another way?

‘I Lost My Identity to a Fraudster, and It Took Six Years to Clean Up the Mess’

The Great Land Robbery

Inside the search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane

What It’s Like to Slowly Go Blind

An attempted heist at Coinbase was scary good, even though it failed

Human microbiome churns out thousands of tiny novel proteins

Lake Titicaca’s 150-year Old Steamship That Runs on Dung

Unexpected fractal behavior gives us clues about the early universe and the arrow of time

Get to Know Maxwell’s Equations—You’re Using Them Right Now

The Swaying Power Of Scented Spaces Isn’t Always Right Under Our Nose

Video: The World War of the Ants

Are We Living in a Computer Simulation? Let’s Not Find Out

Acres of saltwater pools in the desert are growing an algae food revolution

The Dispute at the Heart of Cosmology

New SETI Project Will Practice Looking for Alien Life Near Deep-Sea Vents on Earth

Chinese karaoke lover suffers collapsed lung after straining to reach the high notes

Why These Praying Mantises Are Wearing Itty-Bitty 3D Glasses

Road to the Future: A Century of Weird, Wonderful Concept Cars

How One Mathematician Solved a 2,000-Year-Old Camera Lens Problem

From ball pits to water slides: the designer who changed children’s playgrounds for ever

Remote Triggering of Earthquakes

Hubble Telescope’s Gorgeous New Jupiter Views Could Help Demystify Shrinking Great Red Spot

Catastrophe by Mail – reflecting upon rare and curious tektites

Pine trees send chemical warning to each other when pine beetles attack

Why Speed Kills Cities

A schemer with an English degree used his literary know-how—and a cocktail of drugs—to fool his victims into re-writing their wills

What is geoengineering—and why should you care?

How Safecrackers Can Unlock an ATM in Minutes—Without Leaving a Trace

World’s Largest Frogs Are So Big, They Build Their Own Ponds

‘Welsh Wikipedia Gives Me Hope’

Legless, Leaping Larvae

One is Chinese. One is American. How a journalist discovered and reunited identical twins

On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived an atomic bomb for the second time

Zombie debt: How collectors trick consumers into reviving dead debts

The new field of sonogenetics uses sound waves to control the behavior of brain cells

The baffling origin of London Stone

Bizarre fossils reveal Asia’s oldest known forest

Chase Bank cancels all credit card debt for Canadian customers

Volcano forecasts could soon be a reality, thanks to AI

‘Popular’ Kids Aren’t That Special

Study: many of the “oldest” people in the world may not be as old as we think

Mystery solved? Why cats eat grass

Chernobyl’s ‘Sarcophagus’ Is Being Taken down Due to Fear of Collapse

Two planets orbiting Teegarden’s star described as most earthlike found yet

Did dark matter arise before the Big Bang?

In the Ethiopian Mountains, Ancient Humans Were Living the High Life

A protein in your brain behaves like a virus, infecting your cells with memories

We’ve finally gotten a look at the microbe that might have been our ancestor

The life of a white-hat hacker

Has this scientist finally found the fountain of youth?

The Non-Weirdness of Negative Interest Rates

Can we trust our own eyes? Motivated perception, explained.

$13,000 NES cartridge found at the bottom of a Safeway sack

Claws out on Japan’s ‘cat island’ as foul play feared in spate of deaths

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Stumbles Upon a Strangely Complicated Martian Rock

The U.S. Army Plans To Field the Most Powerful Laser Weapon Yet

Jakarta’s Rooftop Villages