Looming Landslide in Alaska Could Trigger Tsunami at Any Moment

Mount St. Helens isn’t where it should be. Scientists may finally know why.

Dutch spies helped Britain’s GCHQ break Argentine crypto during Falklands War

Project seeks 4D view of Earth’s mantle

Humans coexisted with three-tonne marsupials and lizards as long as cars in ancient Australia

On this day in 1899 Nikola Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs to conduct experiments with wireless electricity

Researchers print rainbow colorants on shimmering chocolate

An unforgettable day in May

Rwanda genocide suspect Kabuga arrested in France

Astronomers Find a Record-Breaking Star That’s Nearly as Old as The Universe

The unsurpassed 125-year-old network that feeds Mumbai

The Last Place on Earth We’d Ever Expect to Find Life

To Work Out Like a Samurai, Swing a Stick, Take a Hike—or Push Some Pencils

We Just Found Traces of The Solar System’s Oldest Fluid in Meteorite Shards

First Observation of a Pauli Quantum Crystal

Archaeologists Will Excavate a Viking Ship for the First Time in Over 100 Years

Why Humans Totally Freak Out When They Get Lost

Snakes have friends too

Aircraft spies gravity waves being sucked into Antarctica’s polar vortex

How the internet kept running even as society closed down around it

Where neutrinos come from

Roman legions fought barbarians along the Danube River for centuries

Moon’s mysterious disappearance 900 years ago finally gets an explanation

When Manhattan Was Mannahatta: A Stroll Through the Centuries

Prehistoric Footprints Provide Rare Snapshot of Ancient Human Group Behavior

Coming Soon: A Nuclear Reactor—With a 3D Printed Core

The Countries Taking Advantage of Antarctica During the Pandemic

How Do We Know the Nukes Still Work?

Tyrannosaurus rex built for distance, not speed, research shows

New episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast: Curious Weights

How did people find out where their local boundaries were before there were reliable maps?

Video: If Rockets were Transparent [9:12]

NASA’s weird wing design could lead to futuristic, fuel-efficient airplanes

‘I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist’

Possible microbes in the Mariana Trench hint at life on Jupiter’s moon Europa

New hybrid embryos are the most thorough mixing of humans and mice yet

Space junk: Astronomers worry as private companies push ahead with satellite launches

Chimp raised like a human child shows phalangeal curve is genetic

Video: Exploring an Abandoned Missile Engine Test Site [17:37]

The Carouser and the Great Astronomer

Inside Deep Undersea Rocks, Life Thrives Without the Sun

Cold War Nuclear Testing May Have Caused Extra Rain Around the World

Video: How the Movement of Other Planets Affects Earth [7:03]

This Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily Guarded Limestone Mine

Using Saturn’s Rings as a Seismometer

French serial-killer expert admits serial lies, including murder of imaginary wife

Long-Lost Ultra-Rare Blue Bee Discovered In Florida

Assassin cells armed with anticancer drugs kill cancer masses

How NASA Certifies New Spacecraft Safe Enough for Humans

To challenge misguided beliefs about science, try satire

Why a Struggling Rust Belt City Pinned Its Revival on a Self-Chilling Beverage Can

Experts Doubt the Sun Is Actually Burning Coal

This is what aliens would hear if they flew by Earth

60 years ago today NASA launched its first “satelloon”

Milestone Evidence for Anyons, a Third Kingdom of Particles

Experts solve the mystery of a giant X-shaped galaxy, with a monster black hole as its engine

Gallery: Following Comet SWAN

Gallery: ‘Time to embrace history of country’: Bruce Pascoe and the first dancing grass harvest in 200 years

How the news changes the way we think and behave

The Secret Lives of Fungi