Lost Colony of Roanoke found groundbreaking evidence released in new book

Scientists create a pattern so complicated it’s impossible to duplicate

Zombie Satellites Return From the Graveyard

A new episode of Damn Interesting Week: Interstellar Therapy

Wall Street, bribery and an opioid epidemic: the inside story of a disgraced drugmaker

Are planets with oceans common in the galaxy? It’s likely, NASA scientists find

How We Know a Volcano Is Restless in Remote Alaska

Haptic technology uses ultrasound waves to create Braille out of thin air

Original ‘Juneteenth’ order found in the National Archives

Gallery: The most colourful sights on Earth

Soap bubbles pollinated a pear orchard without damaging delicate flowers

Science Finally Explains This Classic Optical Illusion

Bacteria Found in Nuclear Reactors Could Be the Secret to Faster, Cheaper Vaccines

What if all viruses disappeared?

The Real Amazons: Separating Fact from Fiction

The modern human mind evolved further and farther back

Why Aliens and Volcanoes Go Together

The Cave Kingpin Buying Up America’s Underground

The Quarantined Hippies Trapped in a Jungle Paradise

NASA rushing to complete Mars launch before planet moves out of range

The end of tourism?

‘I used an algorithm to help me write a story. Here’s what I learned.’

Ex-NHL star Datsyuk ‘holed up at monastery defended by Cossacks with priest who claims Covid is cover-up to microchip population’

Seeking Dark Matter, They Detected Another Mystery

Did Galaxies Grow from Quantum Static?

Travelling the World, One Webcam at a Time

Police, Power, and the Specter of Guns

Plan to release genetically modified mosquitoes in Florida gets go-ahead

Lasers can help us detect viruses faster than typical medical tests

DNA of ‘Irish Pharaoh’ Sheds Light on Ancient Tomb Builders

Nano-motor of just 16 atoms runs at the boundary of quantum physics

How bicycles transformed our world

Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown

The Bomber That Was Mistaken for the Loch Ness Monster

Theft of CIA hacking tools spotlights the spy agency’s “lax” security

In Mongolia, a Mysterious Island Ruin is Finally Giving Up Its Secrets

Vienna police fine man €500 for ‘massive intestinal wind’

Himalaya ‘ghost cats’ are finally coming into view

New ideas in the search for dark matter

Why isn’t Washington, D.C. a state? It started with a drunken mob.

The High Seas Murder That Shocked—And Baffled—The World

Suspected 14th-century statue fished out of river in Spain

Are We Ever Offline Anymore?

The Ancient History of Board Games

Measuring the spin of a black hole

Mice Have Survived a Weeklong Hibernation. Are Humans Next?

The FDA just approved the first prescription video game — it’s for kids with ADHD

Former eBay Execs Allegedly Made Life Hell for Critics

Video: Adam Savage’s One Day Builds: Rhombic Dodecahedron [50:06]

Diluting blood plasma rejuvenates tissue, reverses aging in mice

The Two Forms of Mathematical Beauty

The coronavirus has gutted the price of coca. It could reshape the cocaine trade.

‘Our team climbed Everest to try to solve its greatest mystery’

Birds and other animals may see colours that we cannot even imagine

The record-breaking jet which still haunts a country

Why Gravity Is Not Like the Other Forces

Weird green glow spotted in atmosphere of Mars

The Campaign That Sold the Klan

The US military is getting serious about nuclear thermal propulsion

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Finds Heat, Cold Fracturing Rocks on Asteroid Bennu