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How the Belarus-Ryanair Incident Changed the World

Galapagos tortoise species returns from “extinction” after 115 years

Site in Syria could be world’s oldest war memorial, study finds

Mars Helicopter Lands Safely After Serious In-Flight Anomaly

Inside Citizen’s Dangerous Effort to Cash In On Vigilantism

The Real Story of All Those Crazy Recording Devices Nixon Insisted on Installing in the White House

Your Gym Teacher Was Wrong — You Don’t Have to Stretch Before Working Out

Scientists induced hallucinations in mice to learn more about human psychosis

Phallic worm shared its home with bristly squatters in ancient symbiosis

Monkeys adopt ‘accent’ of other species when in shared territory

The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush

To what extent are we ruled by unconscious forces?

To be more tech-savvy, borrow these strategies from the Amish

Lockheed Martin and GM partner up to build next-gen lunar rover

On this day in 1962, Centralia began to burn

Across the Channel in a Nazi Helicopter

Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921

Squishy Neutron Star Setback Dampens Hopes of Exotic Matter

Rome’s Newest Subway Line Continues to Unearth Archeological Marvels

Cannibalism at sea: the starving Victorian sailors who ate a cabin boy

How a ranger stumbled upon one of the largest fossil finds in California history

A new method to determine biological age suggests a maximum human lifespan

The Entire History of Powered Flight

Food scraps recycled into materials stronger than concrete, yet edible

How your name affects your personality

The secret deportations: how Britain betrayed the Chinese men who served the country in the war

Mathematicians Find Long-Sought Building Blocks for Special Polynomials

Mapping the local cosmic web: Dark matter map reveals hidden bridges between galaxies

The Mystery of the Watermelon’s Origins May Have Been Solved

Misophonia: Scientists discover the brain connection responsible for ‘supersensitivity’ to noise

What the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Destroyed

Earth looks like Mars in surprising astronaut photo from the ISS

How Big Is The Universe’s Largest Galaxy, Really?

A death in Cryptoland

Radioactivity May Fuel Life Deep Underground and Inside Other Worlds

Video: The woman who stared at the sun [5:17]

Video: Why the world’s most famous car race is in Monaco [8:58]

Was the fiddler framed? How Nero may have been a good guy after all

The Berglas Effect: Magic’s Best Card Trick

The Long, Strange Life of the World’s Oldest Naked Mole Rat

Methuselah’s Star is not older than the Universe after all. But it’s still pretty frakking old.

Gamma rays 10 times more energetic than thought possible detected

Video: A Drive through New York City ca. 1935 colorized and interpolated via AI [10:27]

A long-lost letter from Albert Einstein made an uncanny prediction 70 years early

We’ve Tracked 5 Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts to The Arms of Distant Spiral Galaxies

Cheese photo leads to Liverpool drug dealer’s downfall

Why We Speak More Weirdly at Home

Mega-satellite constellations could lead to chain-reaction spacecraft pile-ups in orbit

These Little Creatures Have The ‘Weirdest Sex Chromosome System Known to Science’

The Secret Mission To Unearth Part Of A 142-Year-Old Experiment

Video: This Proves We Will Never Know Everything [33:59]

Scientists image atoms with record resolution close to absolute physical limits

China’s Zhurong Mars rover rolls onto the Martian surface (photos)

The Body’s Most Embarrassing Organ Is an Evolutionary Marvel

Video: Geothermal energy: Our oldest and most reliable resource [06:32]

Mafia mussel: the fight to save a mollusc from the mob

The hidden reason processed pet foods are so addictive

Why Is Ice Slippery? It’s Not a Simple Question

This Fuzzy Image Shows a Spiral Forming Soon After the Big Bang