The Life and Times of “The Most Intelligent Bird in the World”

Astronomers thought comet Borisov was pretty boring. They were wrong

Scientists Implant and Then Reverse False Memories in People

Florida’s only lead smelter exposed hundreds of workers to high lead levels

Meet the Italian Grandmothers Making the World’s Rarest Pasta

Growing Up as a ‘Gifted Child’ and the Rude Awakening of Adulthood

The hidden fingerprint inside your photos

Mystery brain disorder baffles Canadian medicine

A Giant Whale Has Somehow Escaped Human Attention

How the US Lost to Hackers

Nearest Exoplanet to Our Solar System

Explosion from the early universe illuminates secret black hole

Bizarre ‘worm tornado’ in New Jersey has scientists baffled

The World’s Largest Pyramid Is Hidden Within a Hill

How NASA’s MOXIE Could Change Mars Forever

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Energy-harvesting card treats 5G networks as wireless power grids

How Einstein Became a Celebrity

These Mutant Rabbits Walk on Two Legs, and Geneticists Now Know Why

The real reason humans are the dominant species

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How mRNA Technology Could Change the World

70 years ago today a pipe bomb exploded in Grand Central Terminal. It was but the first of many.

A remnant of a protoplanet may be hiding inside Earth

Suez Canal traffic resumes after cargo ship Ever Given is moving again

The Vampire Ship

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His Plane Crashed in the Amazon. Then Came the Hard Part.

Bioplastic made from wood powder entirely degrades in three months

Stalin statue site reveals chilling remains of Prague labour camp

This High Schooler Invented Color-Changing Sutures to Detect Infection

How Mary Wortley Montagu’s bold experiment led to smallpox vaccine – 75 years before Jenner

Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began

How can some planets be hotter than stars? We’ve started to unravel the mystery

NASA Says Asteroid Apophis Isn’t A Risk To Earth For 100 More Years

The Bombs That Never Went Off

The Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal: The 2700-year-old ‘fake news’

The Actress, the Steward and the Ocean Liner: What Really Happened in Cabin 126?

Is there such thing as a maximum temperature?

Buildings made with fungi could live, grow — and then biodegrade

Merck’s Little Brown Pill Could Transform the Fight Against Covid

The Mathematical Pranksters behind Nicolas Bourbaki

The U.S. Is One Step Closer to Establishing a Research Program to Block the Sun

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The truth about lying

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This week: Rainbow science, Einstein’s paparazzi, new layers of the Earth, and more!

How humans became the best throwers on the planet

The Rise and Fall of the Jet Pack

It looks like a saxophone but plays 512 notes — many you’ve never heard before

World War II in Color

The forgotten medieval fruit with a vulgar name

What Killed These Bald Eagles? After 25 Years, We Finally Know.

NASA planet hunter spied 2,200 candidate worlds in its first 2 years

The scientists releasing cats in Australia

GCHQ releases ‘most difficult puzzle ever’ in honour of Alan Turing

The Deepest Diver in the History of Free Diving Goes Below the Ice

The Ancient Method That Keeps Afghanistan’s Grapes Fresh All Winter

Lava, floating rocks and the Blob: the mystery behind the deaths of millions of seabirds