Mystery Solved: How Plant Cells Know When to Stop Growing

What it’s like to live in a world where you are incapable of recognizing faces or places

“A Revolutionary Beauty Secret!” On the Rise and Fall of Radium in the Beauty Industry

Chickpeas are in peril. Gene editing could save them.

Neurons Unexpectedly Encode Information in the Timing of Their Firing

The Bank Robbers Who Couldn’t Shoot Straight (Or Do Anything Right, Really)

The toppling of Saddam’s statue: how the US military made a myth

The Planets with the Giant Diamonds Inside

Scientists Studying Temperature at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency

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How deep brain stimulation changes a person’s sense of confidence

The Space Shuttle Engines Will Rise Again

Video: New Lakes Discovered Under Antarctic Ice with NASA’s ICESat-2 [1:55]

It’s not just bad behavior – why social media design makes it hard to have constructive disagreements online

Fear of an Insect Planet

This star cluster is slowly being taken over by black holes. In a billion years they’ll kill it.

‘Social’ Mitochondria, Whispering Between Cells, Influence Health

A shadowy birthplace may explain Jupiter’s strange chemistry

The U.S. Military Is Testing a Pill That Could Delay Aging

Video: How Taiwan held off Covid-19, until it didn’t [9:40]

The Croatian village where the land became ‘Swiss cheese’

11-Year-Old Gets Physics Degree, Says He’ll Use It to Attain Technological Immortality

The Pros and Cons of Spiky Genitals

Chinese researchers propose deflecting ‘Armageddon’ asteroids with rockets

Methane in the plumes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus: Possible signs of life?

“Hearing contact lens” claimed to outperform regular hearing aids

How the Beaches of the South Got There

Did lead poisoning cause downfall of Roman Empire? The jury is still out

How children are spoofing Covid-19 tests with soft drinks

Damn.

Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)

Psychedelic spurs growth of neural connections lost in depression

China demonstrates most powerful quantum computer

Video: How To Terraform Venus (Quickly) [12:47]

Kepler telescope glimpses population of free-floating planets

No Soil. No Growing Seasons. Just Add Water and Technology.

The AI Wolf That Preferred Suicide Over Eating Sheep

Microbes that feast on crushed rocks thrive in Antarctica’s ice-covered lakes

NASA Mars helicopter pulls off ‘most nerve-wracking flight since Flight 1’

A New Kind of Ransomware Tsunami Hits Hundreds of Companies

Solar-Powered Moon Rovers Will Help Scientists Seek Lunar Ice

Video: What Really Happened at the Hernando de Soto Bridge? [12:54]

Blood Types, Explained (Plus: How To Find Yours)

What Made Early Humans Smart

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Compelling new clues to how gut bacteria can influence social behavior

There’s Something About Lizard Blood

The hunt for extraterrestrial life is about to enter a new era

Here’s what a Falcon 9 looks like after 8 flights to space in a year

140 years ago today, U.S. president James Garfield was shot by an assassin

Gallery: A new road to an inaccessible land

Breakthrough CRISPR Gene Therapy Could Be a ‘One and Done’ Injection

Watch thousands of fire ants form living ‘conveyor belts’ to escape floods (Video)

The scientists hired by big oil who predicted the climate crisis long ago

Brighter Than a Billion Billion Suns: Gamma-Ray Bursts Continue to Surprise

Science YouTuber Wins $10,000 Bet With Physicist

Physicists observationally confirm Hawking’s black hole theorem for the first time

On this day in 1953 the strange and tormented movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.” first appeared in theaters

How Trees Act As NYC’s “Natural Air Conditioning Units”

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