CERN approves plans for a $23 billion, 62-mile long super-collider

The Far Side of the Moon Has a Strange Asymmetry – Scientists Think They Finally Understand Why

One-fifth of Earth’s ocean floor is now mapped

Journalist’s phone hacked by new ‘invisible’ technique: All he had to do was visit one website. Any website.

Vast neolithic circle of deep shafts found near Stonehenge

Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin Has a Secret Disaster Relief Squad

Nabta Playa: The world’s first astronomical site was built in Africa and is older than Stonehenge

‘My dad launched the quest to find alien intelligence. It changed astronomy.’

The History That James Baldwin Wanted America to See

‘The wondrous map’: how unlocking human DNA changed the course of science

The Exploding Women of Early 20th Century “Trick Films”

How PTSD went from ‘shell-shock’ to a recognized medical diagnosis

30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

‘We caught bacteria from the most pristine air on earth to help solve a climate modeling mystery’

Texas’s cactus cops battle to save rare desert beauty from smuggling gangs

Our deepest view of the X-ray sky

Josiah Henson: the forgotten story in the history of slavery

NASA To Fund Search For Signs Of Alien Civilizations. ‘Now We Know Where To Look’ Say Scientists

A strange earthquake swarm lasted for years. Scientists finally know why.

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