82 Days Underwater: The Tide Is High, but They’re Holding On

Using Bacteria to Build a Base on Mars

Switzerland’s Nation of Hoteliers

The Real-Life Hollywood Hoax That Turned a Fake Bradley Cooper Epic Into a $14 Million Scam

This Is Why Dark Energy Is The Biggest Unsolved Problem In The Universe

Lethal Volcanic Gases at an Italian Country Club

Definitely a compliment to be recommended by the fine folks at BoingBoing

‘I Was Teaching a Lot of Misconceptions.’ The Way American Kids Are Learning About the ‘First Thanksgiving’ Is Changing

Ufology: From Fringe Field to Serious Science

‘Nine Secrets I Never Knew About Airports Until I Worked at LAX’

Cryptoqueen: How this woman scammed the world, then vanished

‘I learned to play the piano without a piano’

We’re in danger of missing our November goal. Would you consider making a small donation to keep us going?

What ISIS Will Become

Machine learning has revealed exactly how much of a Shakespeare play was written by someone else

A Family Tree Forever Changed By Disaster

The Endless Memories Preserved in Siberia’s Ice

The Jungle Prince of Delhi

There’s a Violent Battle Between Solar Wind and Cosmic Rays, and Voyager 2 Just Passed Through it

Of the Two Stars in Alpha Centauri, One is Probably More Habitable than the Other

Historians Find Another Spy in the U.S. Atomic Bomb Project

Very rare lion mummies discovered in Egypt

A Woman Missing in the Mountains

What a Memory Looks Like

Why Sleepwalking Still Mystifies Scientists

Everyone Loves Crispy and Crunchy, But What About Chewy?

Tragic coda: Years after a triple murder gutted a family, one last death is mourned

Secret bunkers and mountain hideouts: hunting Italy’s mafia bosses

‘What I have learned from my suicidal patients’

How the Collapse of Local News Is Causing a ‘National Crisis’

The dark side of Eureka: Artificially induced Aha moments make facts feel true

No, Thermodynamics Does Not Explain Our Perceived Arrow Of Time

Physicists Have Finally Seen Traces of a Long-Sought Particle. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal.

An in-depth look at the Devil Worm

Light pollution is key ‘bringer of insect apocalypse’

Are Saturn’s Rings Really as Young as the Dinosaurs?

Announcing our new podcast: Damn Interesting Week

On this day in 1987 a Max Headroom doppelgänger invaded Chicago airwaves

On the Great Secret-Keepers of History

Why you might be counting in the wrong language

President Nixon Never Actually Gave This Apollo 11 Disaster Speech. MIT Brought It To Life To Illustrate Power Of Deepfakes

The ultra-rich Sackler family that flooded America with OxyContin is now using the same playbook in China

A Comet We’ve Never Seen Has Been Lighting Up the Sky for 100 Years

The Eight-Hour Workday Is a Counterproductive Lie

Genetics of Left-Handedness: New Breakthrough

Was Same-Sex Behavior Hardwired in Animals from the Beginning?

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