The Day the Babies Arrive

The Unbelievable True Story of Bane the Nazi Hellhound, ‘Cornfed’ Schneider and the Dog-Mauling Case That Made Kimberly Guilfoyle Famous [note: profanity]

In Russia’s Far North, a Lone Group of Neanderthals May Have Been the Last of Their Kind

The accidental Singer sewing machine revolution

Insect Jewelry of the Victorian Era

Stealth Disease Likely To Blame For 20% Of Global Deaths

Visualization: Average World Temperature since 1850

What the earliest life on Earth looked like

Raise a glass! It’s the 100th anniversary of Prohibition.

How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots?

You can download NASA’s full Shuttle Crew Operations Manual (1,161 pages, PDF)…just in case.

Creating a buzz: Turkish beekeepers risk life and limb to make mad honey

“The Influence of These Nautch Girls”

Why Amsterdam’s Canal Houses Have Endured for 300 Years

This Strange Microbe May Mark One of Life’s Great Leaps

How Swedes were fooled by one of the biggest scientific bluffs of our time.

Why Discovering Martians Could Be Disappointing

Death and our digital ghosts

The Mysterious Lawyer X

Liberating the precolonial history of Africa

Bring up the bodies: the retired couple who find drowning victims

Buckets, Satellites, Robots And More — How We Measure The Earth’s Average Temperature

Blowing in the Wind: Why the Netherlands Is Sinking

The Amish Keep to Themselves. And They’re Hiding a Horrifying Secret

Robotic skins might enable the next generation of space exploration

Paris Museums Just Released 321,178 Works of Art Online for Free

Your Fat Cells Never Disappear — Making Future Weight Gain More Likely

Astronomers Find More ‘Unusual Objects’ Next to Milky Way’s Black Hole

Monks behaving badly

Being wealthy adds nine years to life expectancy, says study

Before Beauty Vlogging, There Were Renaissance ‘Books of Secrets’

First he was a Navy SEAL. Then he went to Harvard Medical School. The moon could be next.

Video: An Introduction to the James Webb Space Telescope Mission [03:43]

101 years ago today a massive molasses storage tank burst, flooding the streets of Boston with sticky goo

An emotionally intelligent AI could support astronauts on a trip to Mars

‘Fritz The Cat,’ [1972] The Infamous X-Rated Cartoon That Grossed $90 Million

Fewer than 200 Wollemi Pine trees are left in the wild, Australian firefighters just saved them

New diesel scandal hits European car industry

How Viruses Secretly Control the Planet

Secrets of ‘1,000-year-old trees’ unlocked

Man requests sword fight with ex-wife and lawyer to settle legal dispute

The first official transport to Auschwitz brought 999 young women. This is their story.

Winners of the 2019 Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest

Neural Dendrites Reveal Their Computational Power

What kind of data is my new car collecting about me? Nearly everything it can, apparently

‘The True Crime Story That Changed My Life’

Scientists Find an Explanation for Powerful Gamma-Ray Bursts: Binary Stars

Peyronie’s disease: the penis condition that affects one in 10 men

‘The Irishman’ tells us who killed Jimmy Hoffa. A lawyer with a secret trove of documents says the movie got it wrong.

Will the skyscrapers of the future be made out of wood?

Navigating disability in the kitchen is all about finding the right adaptations

Man Admits To Murdering Investigative Journalist, A Crime That Rocked Slovakia

‘My decade as a fugitive’: ‘I felt I could be killed at any moment’

The shipwreck that forever changed South Africa

For Better Brain Health, Preserve Your Hearing

The risky plan to haul minerals from a mine in the Alaska wilderness

MDMA researcher is fixing the bad science that sent him to prison

Cosmic Bubbles Reveal the First Stars

Photos: The Eruption of Taal Volcano in the Philippines

Scientists Found Ancient, Never-Before-Seen Viruses in a Glacier