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Cloud cuckoo land? How one bird’s epic migration stunned scientists

It’s Hard to Poop on the Moon. NASA Wants You to Make It Easier.

A quarter of all U.S. newspapers have died in 15 years, a new UNC news deserts study found

The Health Transformation Army: The history of the World Health Organisation

The Korean War never technically ended. Here’s why.

China Reaches New Milestone in Space-Based Quantum Communications

The USSR’s secret Siberian ‘democracy’

This pharaoh’s painted tomb was missing its mummy

A Burst of Light Unlike Any Captured Before

The Incredible Science Of Lake Baikal: The World’s Largest, Oldest, Deepest Lake

Scientists Taught Mice to Smell an Odor That Doesn’t Exist

Almost 1 in 3 pilots in Pakistan have fake licenses, aviation minister says

Video: See a sunset on Uranus, other worlds (and a moon, too) in this NASA simulator [2:59]

This Is Not a Test: A Letter from Disaster City

The Cartoon Picture of Magnets That Has Transformed Science

Down the rabbit hole: how QAnon conspiracies thrive on Facebook

Our greatest invention was the invention of invention itself

The Mystery of the Dark Asteroid That Scorched Russia

The Crime Victim Who’s Obsessed with True Crime Shows

We need to send at least 110 people to Mars to build a civilisation, study finds

Scientists have discovered four new species of gigantic, single-celled organisms on the Pacific floor

Hard to imagine: some people’s minds are blind

This Hopping Robot Could Explore the Solar System’s Icy Moons

Video: Ten years of images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory compressed into one hour [1:01:17]

Did an Alaskan Volcano Help Change the Face of the Mediterranean World?

How Tear Gas Became a Staple of American Law Enforcement

‘Into the Wild’ Bus Airlifted Out of the Wilderness

Saharan Dust Storms Are Giving Earth Life

The Ultimate Human Bias

How the internet will change our coronavirus memories

‘We live in a cage’: residents hide as macaque ‘gangs’ take over Thai city

The OPERA Experiment and the Value of High-Profile Scientific Blunders

When Henry VIII and Francis I Spent $19 Million on an 18-Day Party

People who feel wealthy are more likely to think their political views are objectively true, study finds

‘Black neutron star’ discovery changes astronomy

The Great Grape Graft That Saved the Wine Industry

In Germany, confronting shameful legacy is essential part of police training

The SS Yongala: How a mysterious wreck became a destination

New research suggests the familiar red supergiant Betelgeuse may be the outcome of one star in a binary pair consuming the other.

Experts call for regulation after latest botched art restoration in Spain

Poker and the Psychology of Uncertainty

Mars Is About to Have Its ‘Wright Brothers Moment’

‘A chain of stupidity’: the Skripal case and the decline of Russia’s spy agencies

New evidence suggests something strange and surprising about Pluto

Fighting forest fires with fire: Pyrotechnics and flaming Ping-Pong balls

This Man Sees Numbers as Squiggles

Arctic Circle sees ‘hottest-ever’ recorded temperatures

What Is a Side Channel Attack?

The Windy History of Penny Lane: The Beatles, the Slave Trade and a Now-Resolved Controversy

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