The Woman on the Bridge

Do We Live in a Lopsided Universe?

How the World’s Squarest Fish Gets Around

A huge cloud of invisible particles seems to be missing from the Milky Way

Some Animals Have No Microbiome. Here’s What That Tells Us.

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Modern Submarine Torpedo Attacks Are Nothing Like What You See In The Movies

Video: Could You Get Pregnant in Space? [6:13]

How This 2001 Volvo Got Stuck on a Tiny Island in a Flooded Strip Mine

Team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds

We could soon be harvesting anti-viral antibodies from tobacco plants

The Hollywood Golden Age Producer Turned Cold War Spy

Like Lego: rare photo shows Stonehenge construction technique

The Toll of Long-Term Spaceflight on Human Health

Ignaz Semmelweis, the doctor who discovered the disease-fighting power of hand-washing in 1847

The plague writers who predicted today

Tarantula venom could produce addiction-free painkillers

Video: What Is the Point of Sex? [13:50]

The Case for Past Life on Mars Gets Stronger

Man accidentally ejects himself from fighter jet during surprise flight

AI spotted this pandemic. It could prevent the next one.

Our nearest star system is slowly revealing itself

The Mysterious Demise of Freshwater Mussels

Remembering the Unstoppable Freeman Dyson

Weird alien planet may be core of stripped-down gas giant

Apollo 13’s Astronauts Survived Disaster 50 Years Ago. Could It Happen Again?

The Highland Park Drug Ring

Astronomers Spot the Brightest Supernova Ever Recorded

A new machine can translate brain activity directly into written sentences

New Theory Explains How Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Got Its Freaky Shape

Turkey’s unique hand-sanitising method

How do we know what dinosaurs looked like?

The Most Important Image Ever Taken By NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope

Video: There’s a Lever in Your Ear and It Does Something Amazing [11:45]

Apollo 13: Enhanced images reveal life on stricken spacecraft

New, larger wave of locusts threatens millions in Africa

How Infectious Disease Defined the American Bathroom

The Hunt for Hazardous Asteroids Continues, Even After Most Telescopes Have Closed

We may have spotted a parallel universe going backwards in time

What did people do before toilet paper?

What was the best year for music?

Stunning Images Show The Rings of Uranus Are Like Nothing Else in The Solar System

‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls

Nasal vaccine for Alzheimer’s cuts atrophied brain matter in mice

Are Plants Listening to Us? It Depends Who You Ask

Video: 3 Times We Captured Physical Pieces of the Sun [6:43]

The Weirdly Enduring Appeal of Weird Al Yankovic

Black Hole Appears to Break Laws of Physics, But It’s an Optical Illusion

Awakening volcanic region in Iceland ‘could cause disruption for centuries’

A Spacecraft On Its Way To Mercury Just Captured Some Amazing Images Of Earth

Scientists ponder how jugglers seem to defy limits to human reaction times

The abandoned city of Ani was once the ‘City of 1,001 Churches’

How boredom can inspire adventure

Why Do We Even Listen to New Music?

Are Plants Quantum?

New episode of Damn Interesting Week: Basil Pepper Stew

Shine On Till Tomorrow: The Beatles’ Breakup at 50

Earth Is Spiraling Away From The Sun For Now, But Will Eventually Crash Into It

NASA’s Plan to Turn the Moon Into a Telescope Looks Like the Death Star

World’s most complex microparticle: A synthetic that outdoes nature’s intricacy