The Fifth Force of Nature Could Be Real and Fantastic

Two gamma-ray bursts emit highest energy photons ever seen from GRBs

Detectorists stole Viking hoard that ‘rewrites history’

Experimental HIV vaccine successfully elicits broadly neutralizing antibodies to the virus

Also on this day in 1980, a devastating fire broke out at Las Vegas’s MGM Grand Hotel

On this day in 1980 drillers accidentally drained an entire lake into a salt mine

How two intruders from interstellar space are upending astronomy

An Alarming Discovery in an Astronaut’s Bloodstream

It’s Still Not Aliens: ‘Mars Bug’ Claim Could Damage the Search for Life

The ancient doctors who refused payment

How our home delivery habit reshaped the world

How to Predict Extreme Weather

Scientists Are Just Beginning to Understand Mysterious DNA Circles Common in Cancer Cells

Dirt-Road America

This gorgeous art was made with a surprising substance: live bacteria

The Long-Forgotten Flight That Sent Boeing Off Course

Deadly Collision Blows an Asteroid Apart

Humans put into suspended animation for first time

The Hidden City of Myanmar

Why the CDC warns antibiotic-resistant fungal infections are an urgent health threat

Found: Pollen on a 99-Million-Year-Old Beetle, in Amber

A history of using daughters as currency, from ancient Greece to the Stuart monarchy

Vodka Shots with Stalin: On the Dinner That Changed the War

Ever heard of Blade Runner: A Movie? No, not that one

How heat from the sun could help clean up steel and cement

Why are humans so bad at predicting the future?

‘No one will know the difference’: studio wanted Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman

A Hint About the Affliction That Kept Marat in the Bathtub

Havana on its 500th birthday – then and now

Women who have given birth have younger brains

Hologram Within a Hologram Hints at Fate of Black Holes

A galaxy cluster where stars are forming at a furious rate

On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

Supernova 1987A: ‘Blob’ hides long-sought remnant from star blast

An Alabama shipwreck reveals the untold story of the international slave trade

How the Brain Can Rewire Itself After Half of It Is Removed

1,200 Stolen Paintings Were Discovered in a Los Angeles Storage Locker

Where to hunt for life on Mars

The Evolutionary Power of Cities and Light

One of the most perilous positions on a German Zeppelin during WWI was that of the aerial lookout

Blue Babies, Big Egos, and the Wild World of Early Open Heart Surgery

Physicists Just Created the Most Detailed Simulation of the Universe in History

When a homeless camp rises outside your window

The Mister Rogers No One Saw

Highway to hell: the rise and fall of the car

‘I was the detective on call when Tevan Tobler took his life’

What America Lost When It Lost the Bison

How Large Can A Planet Be?

The fight to get citizenship for descendants of German Jews

From Berth to Death: How world trade is inextricably tied to the spread of influenza

Will Science Ever Give Us a Better Night’s Sleep?

What’s behind a phobia of holes?

Who’s the daddy? Difficult to say in Victorian times

Leaked Intelligence Reports Expose How Iran Dominates Iraq

NASA Scientists Confirm Water Vapor on Europa

Hibernation Works for Bears. Could It Work for Us, Too?

First global geologic map of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, completed

Earth’s magnetic song recorded for the first time during a solar storm

Bubble Subs Arise, Opening Eyes to the Deep Sea

Scientists develop slippery toilet coating to stop poo sticking