A new artificial eye mimics and may outperform human eyes

This Classic Calculator Was Literally Reverse Engineered From the Bare Metal

‘There are too many’: bones of 60 mammoths found in Mexico

The extreme parkour team whose death-defying jumps caught the attention of Hollywood

Scientists Detect a Flickering Signal Coming From The Heart of Our Galaxy

Leonardo da Vinci transformed mapping from art to science

How Cosmic Rays May Have Shaped Life

“Thin gene” discovered and scientists already know how to target it

The Things Inside This 105-Year-Old Time Capsule Have Hardly Aged a Day

How Loners Are an Evolutionary Insurance Policy

Astronomers May Have Spotted a Tiny Moon in The Outer Solar System

‘The Weird American Story of Why My Hometown Is Underwater’

Fuzzy Green ‘Glacier Mice’ Move In Groups And Puzzle Scientists

The U.S. Is Getting Shorter, as Mapmakers Race to Keep Up

Disappearances, danger and death: what is happening to fishery observers?

Eat Rat, Make New Body: Easy Stuff for Pythons

This Lickable Screen Can Recreate Almost Any Taste or Flavor Without Eating Food

A brief history of human spaceflight—1961 to present

Wandering stars pass through our solar system surprisingly often

The game that ate the world: 40 facts on Pac-Man’s 40th birthday

A new episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast is now available: Stash Wig

Underground Chambers Discovered Near Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Nature: Bumblebees’ ‘clever trick’ fools plants into flowering

What the ‘trolly-lolly’ of gibberish means for language

Why ancient pandemics may hold the key to our future survival

Jurassic bug: Researchers find 151-million-year-old Morrisonnepa Jurassica insect fossil in Utah

Death mask of King Henry VII is brought to astonishing life in a digital restoration

Ultrasound brain stimulation changes monkey behavior directly

Do Humans Have a ‘Mating Season’?

The Many-Worlds Theory, Explained

On this day in 1946 Louis Slotin was bitten by the nuclear dragon

Scientists recreated ancient Earth’s ocean hell to figure out how life began

The Kentucky Miner Who Scammed Americans by Claiming He Was Hitler and Plotting a ‘Revolt’ With ‘Spaceships’

Pluto’s Weird Atmosphere Just Collapsed

Tiny plankton drive processes in the ocean that capture twice as much carbon as scientists thought

Jupiter is so Big that our Solar System almost had two Suns

Will Titanic’s iconic telegraph be recovered by deep-ocean robots?

How a rapper’s social media posts got the FBI’s attention

‘My Father, the QAnon Conspiracy Theorist’

Astronomers discover oldest disk galaxy ever hiding deep in the cosmos

The Rogue Experimenters

Why are Africa’s coronavirus successes being overlooked?

The Soviet Tank That Changed the World

To safely explore the solar system and beyond, spaceships need to go faster

The Life and Times of a Real Tiger Queen

What Astronauts Can Teach Us About Mental Health and Isolation

Painted Silos Are Turning the Outback Into an Alfresco Art Gallery

Japan’s forgotten indigenous people

How pheromones help bee queens rule and lemurs ‘flirt’

Photos: A Flamboyance of Flamingos

The Tunguska Explosion Could Have Been Caused By An Asteroid That Still Orbits The Sun

Scientists use pressure to make liquid magnetism breakthrough

Neutrinos: Why the U.S. Is Betting It All on the Most Puzzling Particle in the Universe

Astronomers spot evidence of a baby planet in a young star system

Nasa head of human spaceflight suddenly resigns days before ‘historic’ space mission

Graduate Student Solves Decades-Old Conway Knot Problem

On this day in 1984 an infamous episode of Press Your Luck was filmed

Here’s how we could mine the moon for rocket fuel

‘Precious’ footage from 1935 of last-known Tasmanian tiger released

Astronomers created an environmental color decoder to find habitable exoplanets