Mystery of missing Chicago girl Mary Agnes Moroney may be finally solved

Surprisingly Few Insects Live in The Ocean, And We May Finally Know Why

Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle

Genetically modified bananas out to stop Cavendish catastrophe

A private company has an audacious plan to rescue NASA’s last “Great Observatory”

Video: How the portal illusion works [9:41]

Mouse Study Reveals Unlikely Connection Between Menthol And Alzheimer’s

Two rare, unknown Rembrandt portraits worth millions discovered in private collection

We are (mostly) on break until Tuesday, 16 May. In the meantime, we offer some stuff from the archive:

On this day in 1944 the Allies began their final assault on Monte Cassino with the assistance of a 500-pound brown bear

Video: Controlling Turbulence and Evolution: How Engineers Overcome Uncertainty [12:21]

SolarWinds: The Untold Story of the Boldest Supply-Chain Hack

Bizarre object 10 million times brighter than the sun defies physics, NASA says

What Survives in the Atacama Desert?

Hammerhead Sharks ‘Hold Their Breath’ When Deep Diving

The Plot to Steal the Other Secret Inside a Can of Coca-Cola

From DiscoVision to SelectaVision

Runaway black hole with tail of stars may be galaxy in disguise

Soap can make humans more attractive to mosquitoes, study finds

Marine Monsters of the Jurassic Seas Were Twice the Size of Killer Whales

Patient M: The man who started seeing the world backwards after being shot in the head

‘It’s hell’: life under the American mobile home king who calls himself a ‘grave dancer’

NASA’s JWST discovers a reflective Mini-Neptune with a steamy atmosphere

Qubits 30 meters apart used to confirm Einstein was wrong about quantum

Video: Is there a Black Hole in our Solar System? [11:51]

The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris

An 11-Year-Old Climber Fell 50 Feet at an Oregon Crag. He Survived.

The 19th-Century Trippers Who Probed the Mind

Dark waters: how the adventure of a lifetime turned to tragedy

A mysterious object has been spotted that’s 10 million times as bright as the sun. Scientists can’t work out why it hasn’t exploded.

How finding a home in America became so absurdly expensive

Hurricanes of Data: The Tiny Craft Mapping Superstorms at Sea

This Mauritius Palm Is the Last of Its Kind in the Wild

Video: Nuclear energy – The fears and the facts around the world’s most contentious energy source [32:54]

Wendy’s to begin replacing drive-thru staff with AI chatbots

Remembering When Horse Diving Was an Actual Thing

What if we tolerated diseases?

NASA’s Interplanetary Plans May Be Lurching toward Disaster

Researchers craft a fully edible battery

A Radical Plan to Make AI Good, Not Evil

Scientists Unveil a More Diverse Human Genome

How the Voyager probes keep going and going decades after launch

‘Struck by lightning, my face burned and my memory disappeared. Here is how I made it back’

Detailed image of the human retina

Loving father exposed as a convicted killer who lived life on the run

There’s a New Plan to Relocate Hubble Space Telescope and Extend Its Lifespan

Some of the first humans in the Americas came from China, study finds

Earth Could Soon Be More Detectable by Aliens, Study Says

Memories may be stored in the membranes of your neurons

Physicists Create Elusive Particles That Remember Their Pasts

Remembering the Golden Age of Airline Food

Apparent meteorite strikes house in New Jersey (photos)

Edward Burtynsky’s photos show the scars of human-altered landscapes

The Team of Sleuths Quietly Hunting Cyberattack-for-Hire Services

The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe

Video: Testing Out JPL’s New Snake Robot [2:05]

60 years ago today scientists gave Earth a temporary ring using 480 million tiny copper needles

In Norway, the Electric Vehicle Future Has Already Arrived

Supercomputers have revealed the giant ‘pillars of heat’ funnelling diamonds upwards from deep within Earth

A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation