Why Migration Is Bigger and More Contentious Than Ever

The Andromeda Galaxy Has Swallowed Up Multiple Dwarf Galaxies, Study Finds

Catherine the Great: the first woman to rule Russia

Face masks to decoy t-shirts: The rise of anti-surveillance fashion

False witness: why is the US still using hypnosis to convict criminals?

Paralysed man moves in mind-reading exoskeleton

Scientists start mapping the hidden web that scaffolds the universe

On this day in 1951 Henrietta Lacks’ body died, though a multitude of her cells are alive today

Interstellar comet starts coming into focus

Intriguing Discovery Grants New Insights Into Photoelectric Effect

The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way

The Messy Consequences of the Golden State Killer Case

The long, loving search for Betsy, bovine escape artist

Exposure to air pollution increases violent crime rates, study finds

Juno is Afraid to Death of Jupiter’s Shadow. So it Fired its Thruster for Over 10 Hours to Avoid It.

Mathematical “Golden Ratio” Observed in Human Skulls

Key to learning and forgetting identified in sleeping brain

First video of viruses assembling released

The object 2I/Borisov seems to come from a solar system similar to ours

In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer

So You Crashed a $3 Million Bugatti. Now What?

FBI Issues ‘High-Impact’ Cyber Attack Warning

In the twisted story of eugenics, the bad guy is all of us

Silk Gets Even Stronger in Freezing Outer Space Temperatures, Scientists Discover

Japan spacecraft releases rover to asteroid in last mission

Falling Fireballs Crashed in Chile Last Week. They Weren’t Meteorites, Experts Say.

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How Mary Roberts Rinehart, Queen of the Mystery Novel, Was Very Nearly Murdered

Why Red Means Red in Almost Every Language

Plate tectonics runs deeper than we thought

Intelligent Ways to Search for Extraterrestrials

What moons in other solar systems reveal about planets like Neptune and Jupiter

Gandhi’s ashes stolen and photo defaced on 150th birthday

Emma Tenayuca and the San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938

Man who agreed to donate sperm for 5 pregnancies learns he has at least 17 kids

‘My decade as a fugitive’

Inventing the World’s Strongest Silver

Meet the breeders obsessed with creating remarkable new crops

The Diver Who Brings Up the Bodies

What Happens When Your Internet Identity Is Beyond Your Control?

Collision course: why are cars killing more and more pedestrians?

Proving Ground: Photos of the US military’s Dugway weapon testing range in Utah

Earth’s magnetic field flips much more frequently than we thought

NASA launches a new planet-hunting telescope using a giant balloon

Deceitful behavior diminishes our ability to read emotions, with many consequences

Beyond quantum supremacy: the hunt for useful quantum computers

‘I Worked at Capital One for Five Years. This Is How We Justified Piling Debt on Poor Customers.’

Paid Child Care for Working Mothers? All It Took Was a World War

New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains

Man Confesses to Brutal Killings That Terrorized South Korea, Police Say

How Much Longer Will the Hubble Space Telescope Last?

Would Finding Life on Mars Really Change Anything?

The Beatles’ revolutionary use of recording technology in ‘Abbey Road’

The first message sent through the ARPANET was “LO.” It was supposed to be “LOGIN,” but the network crashed after the first two letters

Feeling Lucky? A Brief History of Gambling with Dice

The bias that can cause catastrophe

Amazing fossil shark skeleton is the first of its kind

What Makes People So Gullible?

The Evolution of the Hard Hat

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: 40 years of parody and predictions