Full-scale engineering mock-up of next-gen American lunar lander unveiled

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A quantum thermometer to measure the coldest temperatures in the universe

Scientific American: ‘Reckoning with Our Mistakes’

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The Bias in the Machine

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Incredible Fossil Shows a Sea Monster in the Belly of an Even Bigger Sea Monster

Police solve just 2% of all major crimes

When Asbestos Was a Gift Fit for a King

How outdoor advertising can deepen inequality

Anxiety grows as China’s Three Gorges dam hits highest level

The mechanical wonder that powered Versailles’s fountains

Photos: Dozens of Wildfires Burn Across California

1905 footage of a person who was reportedly born in 1791, upscaled and colorized

In Quantum Physics, Even Humans Act As Waves

First Detailed Study Deepens The Mystery of Vast Stone Monuments in Saudi Arabia

How Probability Misleads Us About The Universe

The Universe Has Made Almost All the Stars It Will Ever Make

Beirut blast: The inferno and the mystery ship

Face Values: The Surreal and Disturbing Collage Portraits of John Stezaker

America’s Most Flamboyant Private Eye and the 8,000-Mile Manhunt

Thousands of chicks arrive dead to farmers amid USPS turmoil

When the Misdiagnosis Is Child Abuse

The Man Who Swam the Full Length of the Mississippi River

First Male Murder Hornet in U.S. Caught in Washington State

How Fake CIA Spy Garrison Courtney Fooled Everyone and Swindled Millions

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How a Chemical Weapons Disaster in WWII Led to a U.S. Cover-Up—and a New Cancer Treatment

Oxford metastudy finds honey most effective treatment for coughs and colds

Microbes living on air a global phenomenon

An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction

Inside the Boogaloo: America’s Extremely Online Extremists

The Case of the Top Secret iPod

Was Our Sun A Twin? If So Then ‘Planet 9’ Could Be One Of Many Hidden Planets In Our Solar System

A New Study Suggests a Possible Disease Vector: Germy Dust

A car-sized asteroid made the closest Earth flyby a space rock has ever survived

The antibiotic paradox: why companies can’t afford to create life-saving drugs

In a first, astronomers spotted a space rock turning into a comet

Why Tokyo’s New Transparent Public Restrooms Are A Stroke Of Genius

‘Oumuamua remains a mystery: study nixes molecular hydrogen ice theory

A dismantled post office destroys more than mail service

First ever observation of ”time crystals” interacting

How Mongolia has kept the coronavirus at bay

To survive wild temperature swings, freeze-tolerant creatures can do something unthinkable to other species

Suffrage at 100: A Visual History

Lost Colony of Roanoke: Researchers say the ‘mystery is over’

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The robot revolution has arrived

Is body weight affected by when you eat? Here’s what science knows so far

NASA Is Tracking a Vast, Growing Anomaly in Earth’s Magnetic Field

One of NASA’s oldest Mars spacecraft spies a dusty, dark avalanche

Somehow, a Tiny Black Hole Is Causing a ‘Heartbeat’ 100 Light-Years Away

The Beatles Got Started in Hamburg. There’s a Reason for That.

The artist who can’t recognise her own face