Do you believe in rectangles?

World’s oldest pearl discovered near Abu Dhabi

Incredible Illustrations for Alice’s Adventure’s In Wonderland by Salvador Dalí

One of these is a deadly viper. The other is a harmless toad. Can you tell the difference?

Powered by Sunlight, ‘Artificial Leaf’ Successfully Produces Clean Gas From CO2 and Water

Why Do Pigeons Bob Their Heads?

Astronomers have spotted a new type of storm on Saturn

A Scientist Created ‘Gravity Crystals’ to Simulate Dead Stars on Earth

Nikon Small World photo winners reveal hidden world around us

World’s loudest bird “sings” at a deafening 125 dB

What was the first color in the universe?

Researchers have grown muscle cells on edible gelatin scaffolds that mimic the texture and consistency of meat

An Ancient History of Piracy

Restoring the Ship of Theseus

The newest gene editor radically improves on CRISPR

Space May Soon Become a War Zone

Why don’t evergreens change color and drop their leaves every fall?

The lost river: Mexicans fight for mighty waterway taken by the US

Would An Alien Civilization Classify Earth As An ‘Interesting’ Planet?

When do the clocks change around the world? And why?

This bizarre primate has a newly discovered digit

The Two Mughal Princes Who Stood in the Way of the British East India Company

A Nun’s 450-Year-Old ‘Last Supper’ Makes Its Museum Debut in Florence

For The First Time Ever, Scientists Discover Fractal Patterns in a Quantum Material

Why It’s So Hard to Make a Better Baby Formula

A British actor left Hollywood to fight ISIS. Now he’s marooned in Belize. It’s quite a story.

Antibiotics Are Getting into Everything

Bayan Obo: The Chinese Mine That Makes All Gadgets Possible

Road built by biblical villain uncovered in Jerusalem

The miraculous journey of a captive-bred hermit crab

Doubting death: how our brains shield us from mortal truth

The Not-Com Bubble Is Popping

A brief history of theater fires in New York City—and the regulations that helped people escape them

Does Io Have a Magma Ocean?

The $68,000 Fish: The future of salmon in the Pacific Northwest

Dark Matter’s Biggest Problem Might Simply Be A Numerical Error

Murder in Paradise: The Tale of the Baroness and the Bohemians

Why Neanderthals Could Outsprint Humans

‘Miracle of the dancing sun’ may be a meteorological event

Why Harriet Tubman risked it all for enslaved Americans

Canadian breakthrough that became the world’s most expensive drug, then vanished, gets second chance

The Untold Story of the 2018 Olympics Cyberattack, the Most Deceptive Hack in History

‘As the ancient Egyptians left them’: Archaeologists uncover more than 20 sealed coffins

All plastic waste could be recycled into new plastic

Hubble reveals that galaxies without dark matter really exist

The True Story of the Genetically Modified Superfood That Almost Saved Millions

New stable form of plutonium discovered

The World’s Largest Geode Formed When the Mediterranean Sea Disappeared, New Study Reveals

Molecules in Blood Spike Hours before Seizures

FAA says Boeing withheld worrying messages on 737 MAX jet

Building China’s Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says

How Arson Became A Capital Crime

The internet threatened to speed up the death of endangered languages. Could it save them instead?

San Francisco’s Busiest Street Is Going Car-Free

Technology exposed Syrian war crimes over and over. Was it for nothing?

From 440 to 25,000: One Humpback Whale Population’s Amazing Recovery

A major California fault has begun moving for the first time on record

Why Does the U.S. Still Have So Many Lead Water Pipes?

Roman emperor Domitian’s feast of death

First all-woman space walk puts spotlight on spacesuit design