IBM says its new quantum chip can’t be simulated by classic supercomputers

Astronauts Forced to Take Shelter as Debris Cloud Threatens Space Station

Packed ports and empty shelves: Inside the issues behind the U.S. supply chain crisis

‘Every Breath You Take’ is the ultimate all-round song (according to science)

The motoring pioneer who died penniless

‘It’s like hunting aliens’: inside the town besieged by armadillos

Forget Radio! Transmitting With Neutrons

Finally, a Practical Use for Nuclear Fusion

NASA scientists hope singing trees could help us reach another planet

Serious People Are Giving Serious Thought to Colonizing Mars

Why These Badass Balloons Are the Pentagon’s New Secret Weapon

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade: A History in Pictures

This man won a Guinness World Record for his tree that bears 10 types of fruit

US bank robber identified after decades-long hunt

Those Bullet Effects In Terminator 2 Weren’t CGI

The Year America’s Hair Fell Out

Try, try and try again: why did modern humans take so long to settle in Europe?

How many satellites orbit Earth?

The eccentric dog breeds that vanished

Researchers recreate deep-Earth conditions to see how iron copes with extreme stress

Glowing Worms Could Shed Light On the Secrets of Regeneration

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Discovered Cheap New Way to Do Nuclear Fusion

A New Era of Cosmological Discovery: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope To Unravel the Secrets of Dark Energy and Dark Matter

Why the rockfish can live for centuries and you can’t

NASA Mars rover roughs up a rock, peers at ‘something no one’s ever seen’

Photos: NY Begins Construction On $107 Million ‘Living’ Barriers To Fight The City’s Rising Seas

The most dangerous woman in San Francisco

Meet the Obsessive Role-Players Who Live Inside the World of Grand Theft Auto

The elephant in the room: a Thai village’s unwelcome guests

In an Astonishing Feat, a New Drug Reversed Paralysis in Mice With Spinal Cord Injury

Diamond delivers long-sought mineral from the deep Earth

To Catch a Turtle Thief: Blowing the Lid Off an International Smuggling Operation

This week: 🧬 Dust genomics, 🔥 Antarctica on fire, 🚽 origins of the public restroom, and more!

Clothes From 8,000 Years Ago Were Made From Trees, New Research Suggests

Clues to what causes long COVID are starting to emerge

89-Year-Old Earns the PhD in Physics He Dreamed of Decades Ago

The Debonair Restaurateur Who Inspired the First Chinese-American Cookbook

Fungi Were Able to Absorb Radiation on the ISS. Could Astronauts Grow Their own Radiation Shields in Space?

A New Theory for Systems That Defy Newton’s Third Law

New imaging method gives live glimpse into how cells work

The extraordinary story of how 300 volunteers rescued a stranded caver

Cuttlefish can learn with the brains they keep in their arms

Exploring the Effects of Music on Creativity

School of secrets

Next-gen supercharged COVID-19 vaccines may also target the common cold

Astronomers Think a Near-Earth Asteroid Is a Chunk of the Moon

London’s Thames, once biologically dead, has been coming back to life

Off-world colony simulation reveals changes in human communication over time with Earth

‘I wanted less than a minute’: 105-year-old unsatisfied after 100m world record

New NASA video takes you plummeting through Venus’ atmosphere [2:53]

Laughter in the Time of Cholera

The Moon’s top layer alone has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years

The hunt for alien life on Phobos, one of Mars’ mystifying moons

Duelling doctors of the 18th century

What Whale Barnacles Know

Did Cars Rescue Our Cities From Horses?

The UK village that lost its cheese

Why do some people sleepwalk? Too much relaxation may be a factor

Alabama boy certified as world’s most premature baby

Before Oxford’s Library Was the Finest Institutional Library in Europe, It Was… Kind of a Dump