Who Cleans Up All the Gore and Goop When the Horror Movie Cameras Stop Rolling?

DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators

The holiday islands where locals have nowhere to live

Body of woman missing since 1992 found in lake

Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts’ origins

Toy Stories: Kids from around the world posing with prized possessions

Indian woman, 73 gives birth to twin girls

India Loses Contact With Chandrayaan-2 Lander During Moon Descent

The Mysterious Evacuation of Sunspot Observatory

The Accidental Invention of the Lifesaving Pacemaker

How to Plan a Family Around an Interplanetary Mission

China’s First Cloned Kitten, Garlic

Studying the Superhuman

Early animal had ‘complex behaviour’

The psychology behind why we find clowns so creepy

Geel, Belgium has a radical approach to mental illness

Thieves Used Audio Deepfake of a CEO to Steal $243,000

If We Find Alien Life, Can We Avoid Harming It?

Is Armed Conflict Possible in Today’s Europe?

The Saltwater Railroad

Why the Return of the Airship Makes More Sense Than Ever

Gallery: The Unbuilt Streets of California’s Ghost Metropolis

The Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector That’s Puzzling Modern Researchers

The Hidden Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice

How the East India Company became the world’s most powerful business

‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets

The story of cannibalism that came true

India’s first lunar lander about to try for risky touchdown

Satellite Captures Four Tropical Cyclones from Space

Large Underwater Observatory Disappears Without a Trace, Baffling Scientists

Left-handed DNA found – and it changes brain structure

Ancient farmers burned the Amazon, but today’s fires are very different

Photos: The Wreckage Left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas

1949 Chicago: A City Of Extremes Photographed By Stanley Kubrick

Utopia, Abandoned

Metaphors Are Us

What Statistics Can and Can’t Tell Us About Ourselves

Why the U-2 Is Such a Badass Plane

How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors

Is there a worst time of day to get sick?

Sign of the times: how the signature became a meaningless scrawl

How warm oceans supercharge deadly hurricanes

Please, My Digital Archive. It’s Very Sick.

The Tragedy on Howse Peak

Why Polish people hate rules

Why Monster Stories Captivate Us

America’s lost street kids: the scapegoating of troubled youths

The Hard-Drinking Early Smithsonian Naturalists of the Megatherium Club

How American Tycoons Created the Dinosaur

The race to create a perfect lie detector – and the dangers of succeeding

These Marsupials Drop Dead After Mating

The Mercury 6 Flight Story In Photos

Remote diagnosis from wee to the Web

Killer Set: The Strange History of Performers Dying Onstage

Bacterial Clones Show Surprising Individuality

Superconductivity at the boiling temperature of water is possible, say physicists

Planet WASP-12b Might Be on a Death Spiral into its Parent Star

‘A Photo Trip to Washington State, Dedicated to My Parents’