What Would It Be Like to Live in an Era of Geoengineering?

If a medicine is too expensive, should a hospital make its own?

Babies in the womb have lizard-like hand muscles

Just 10 men are permitted to hunt and pickle 2,000 young seabirds on a desolate island each year

The monstrous Minotaur riveted ancient Greece and Rome

The Future of Silk

Artificial blood developed for patients of any blood type

250 years ago today a young Peruvian woman set off into the jungle to find her long-missing husband

Bad ancestors: does the climate crisis violate the rights of those yet to be born?

‘That Time I Conducted an Autopsy Without Any Medical Training’

Your Brain Chooses What to Let You See

“Everything That You’re Feeling Is Okay”

‘My favourite Nobel prize: Raman scattering is a universal fingerprint’

Climate change is changing the flavor of French wine

A Summer without Sunspots

How War Made the Cigarette

Swedish navy returns to vast underground HQ amid Russia fears

Direct evidence finally found of 3.5-billion-year-old microscopic life

China’s new 500-megapixel ‘super camera’ can instantly recognize you in a crowd

The Tragically All-Too-Common Suicide of Derrick Rose’s Investigator

The World’s Largest Refugee Camp Is Becoming a Real City

Hot-Air War Machine

The Missouri Monster ‘Momo’ Is the Cryptid Time Forgot

Why Your Dog Likes Sticking Its Head Out the Car Window

The true tale of a bona fide, one-of-a-kind “Lobster Girl”

A terrible crime, a patient waiting for a transplant: The tragic, redemptive journey of one heart.

Antibiotic resistance: researchers have directly proven that bacteria can change shape inside humans to avoid antibiotics

The Man Who Went to War With Canada

How the Nazis Rose to Power as an Extremist Coalition of the Discontented

Unraveling the Mystery of a Mannequin From the Movie Mannequin, Now on Display at a Philadelphia Mall

Inch by inch: how Angola is clearing its killing fields

Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone

A strange new type of crystal is made of fluid tied into knots

Image: Gorgeous 81 megapixel composite photo of the moon

He’s Trying To Fill In The Gaps On Google Street View — Starting With Zimbabwe

Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us

The Ticking Time-Bomb of WWII-era Shipwrecks

Gallery: The Former Soviet Union’s Surprisingly Gorgeous Subways

The Honeybee’s Most Fearsome Enemy

SpaceX Unveils Silvery Vision to Mars: ‘It’s Basically an I.C.B.M. That Lands’

On this day in 1957 a nuclear cooling tank at Russia’s Chelyabinsk-40 exploded

“Identity fusion” might explain why people act against their own interests

Image: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula

Mathematics as a Cultural Force

Video: The Billion Ant Mega Colony and the Biggest War on Earth [9:22]

RNA Vaccines Could Change Everything in the Fight Against Disease

There Are Parasitic Wasps, and Then There’s the Crypt-Keeper

A Soviet sailor’s 50-year-old message in a bottle makes it to Alaska

Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet From Climate Catastrophe

Hotel Mumbai: The stories of the real-life terror attack survivors

Into the great unknown: The Parker Solar Probe

OK, WTF Is Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’?

Deep Throat’s identity was a mystery for decades because no one believed this woman

Please Relax to This Video of an Octopus Changing Colors As It Naps

High-speed microscope illuminates biology at the speed of life

What If Planet Nine Is a Bowling Ball-Size Black Hole?

How Many Humans Could the Moon Support?

The Balloon Boy Hoax—Solved!

The Spycraft Revolution

Russia’s Circular Warships