New ‘mini-moon’ set to be captured by Earth might just be space junk

Wildfires took her home. She returned on an outlaw mission to salvage a family treasure

The CIA Once Considered Using Lightning to Assassinate People

Studies Show Far-UVC Light Can Kill Coronaviruses Without Harming Humans

Video: Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down? [5:47]

The fiasco of the 1976 ‘swine flu affair’

Earth Is About to Capture a Minimoon, But There’s Something Odd About This One

The Simple Math Problem We Still Can’t Solve

Exploring Chernobyl’s Imprint on Neighboring Belarus

Why Covid-19 Patients Are Suffering From Distorted and Phantom Smells

Ancient empire collapse seen in violent injuries in nomad graveyard

Bot or Not — CAPTCHAs have evolved to reflect the untenable distinction between real and fake users

Video: The Largest Star in the Universe [11:58]

A Strange, Glowing Ultraviolet Aurora Has Just Been Detected Around a Comet

Is The Matter In Our Universe Fundamentally Stable Or Unstable?

If there is life on Venus, how could it have got there? Origin of life experts explain

NASA Publishes Artemis Plan to Land First Woman, Next Man on Moon

Where Camels Take to the Sea

Internet: Old TV caused village broadband outages for 18 months

Gallery: Winning entries in the 2020 Insight Investment Astronomy Photographer of the Year

Ecologists confirm Alan Turing’s theory for Australian fairy circles

Airbus eyes hydrogen-powered future with commercial aircraft concepts

How rescuing drowning migrants became a crime

The Indian queens who modelled for the world’s first vaccine

Why there is no speed limit in the superfluid universe

The Race to Redesign Sugar

Saturn’s ocean moon Enceladus has fresh ice in unexpected place

A Doctor High on Greed, a Biker Gang High on Opioids, and The Woman Who Paid the Price

Wikipedia edits have massive impact on tourism, say economists

The detection of phosphine in Venus’ clouds is a big deal – here’s how we can find out if it’s a sign of life

The Walther PPK, the classic spy gun that changed the game

Mexican archaeologists identify the first Mayan slave ship to be discovered

Why the Supreme Court ended up with nine justices—and how that could change

The deadly viruses that vanished without trace

“Galaxy-Sized Big Bang” –Largest Black Holes in Observable Universe May Be Source of Dark Matter

What did people use before toilet paper was invented?

New curio by Marisa Brook: Signs and Space

Mathematicians May Have Figured Out How ‘Stone Forests’ Form

A Strange New Magnetoelectric Effect Has Been Discovered in a Symmetrical Crystal

The search for life – from Venus to the outer solar system

An Arsonist Destroyed A Wonder Of The World For Modern Reasons

Egypt tomb: Sarcophagi buried for 2,500 years unearthed in Saqqara

Video: Music lovers will be astonished at the influence The Wrecking Crew wielded over rock and pop music in the 60s and 70s [1:41:52]

Mayflower 400: the science of sailing across the ocean in 1620

Hiding a 10,000 Year Clock inside a Mountain

Colorado couple’s 20-year search for extinct fruit finally pays off

Parental Advisory: The Story of a Warning Label

The Himalayan invention powered by pine needles

Why is space a vacuum?

How Creativity Changes as We Age

Sea scorpions almost as big as humans were already crawling to shore 340 million years ago

UFO Sightings: Japan’s Military Is Investigating UFO Sightings

Primary role of sleep changes from learning support to brain maintenance in early childhood: study

Scientists find ‘secret molecule’ that allows bacteria to exhale electricity

The Vikings Were More Complicated Than You Might Think

Nero, History’s Most Despised Emperor, Gets a Makeover

If The Big Bang Wasn’t The Beginning, What Was It?

40 years ago today a technician dropped a large ratchet socket into the depths of a Titan II nuclear launch complex in Arkansas

280 years ago today Commodore Anson’s squadron departed from England on a secret world-circumnavigating mission

Solid roundup of the science so far on how COVID-19 spreads. Big takeaways: Surfaces are safe (mostly), masks + social distance works