Egyptian mummy adorned with tattoos

The Crisis in Flint Isn’t Over. It’s Everywhere.

Stanford researchers ‘stunned’ by stem cell experiment that helped stroke patient walk

Universe is expanding up to 9% faster than we thought, say scientists

A Short-Order Murder

4 devastating tornadoes hit Moore, Oklahoma, in 16 years. Was it geography or just bad luck?

Can primordial black holes fill in the dark matter blank?

Outwitting ‘Typhoid Mary’

Video: “Rolling” – Three cameras mounted to wheelchairs show everyday struggles and stigmas.

Uncovering Big Bias with Big Data

Video: Bright “red sprite” lightning caught on video near Amarillo, TX (best at 0:27)

The cave hospitals of Syria’s front line

King Tut’s dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms

Video: Extracting platinum from roadside dust

‘Oldest hand-written document ever found in Britain’ found at Roman London dig.

The world’s longest (57km) and deepest rail tunnel opened in Switzerland today.

Video: Who profits when disaster strikes? FRONTLINE and NPR investigate.

Getting babies to stop crying and not die may have made humans smarter

Videos: Are you your body? And which half of your brain is you?

How John Hinckley–the man who shot President Reagan–now spends his days

The Keyhole Seven: The worst disaster in Zion National Park’s 97-year history.

The man who seduced the 7th Fleet

Video: New Horizons’ Best Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface

Silver snake, with distinctive metallic appearance, discovered in Bahamas

Film from the US War Department, 1944: “Know Your Allies: Britain”

Researchers show that blue-green bird eggs protect the embryo from harmful sunlight.

Video: Lightning strike at 7,000 frames per second.

What is CRISPR and why is it so great?

Psychology of strategic deception revealed by online poker

The length of a second could be about to change

Archaeologists [probably] discover Aristotle’s 2,400-year-old tomb in Macedonia

Has a Hungarian physics lab found a fifth force of nature?

A Shocking Find In a Neanderthal Cave In France

Study: Europa’s Ocean May Have An Earthlike Chemical Balance

Swarm of bees follow grandmother’s car for over 24 hours attempting to rescue their queen

Paint-On GMOs Could Create Cattle, Dogs with Custom Fur

Super solar flares may have kicked off life on Earth (warning: autoplay video)

The Bank Robber: The computer technician who exposed a Swiss bank’s darkest secrets.

Vital Signs: She lost a piece of her brain and will never get it back.

Experiment shows that the air chemistry in movie theaters changes during certain scenes.

Study: Antibiotics that wipe out gut microbes may play havoc with memory

Report: Software used across the USA to predict future criminals is biased against blacks.

Everybody Is Constipated, Nobody Is Constipated

For World’s Newest Scrabble Stars, SHORT Tops SHORTER

Tyrannosaurus rex would have had lips, Toronto paleontologist says

Trees seen resting branches while ‘asleep’ for the first time

The Man Who Blamed Aging on His Intestines

How cameras in the wild have transformed what we know about animals

Feel Me: What the new science of touch says about ourselves.

A Secret Tunnel Found in Mexico May Finally Solve the Mysteries of Teotihuacán

Magic-mushroom drug lifts depression in first human trial

Video: Mechanically Stabilized Earth

I went to the hospital to give birth…and tested positive for meth

The False Promise of DNA Testing

The Secret Bones In Benjamin Franklin’s Basement

Video: New short documentary from Errol Morris: Demon in the Freezer

Astronomers crack the secret of this gorgeous poem by Sappho

World-first scanning helium microscope looks at spider fangs and butterfly wings

Study: Only two kinds of sexual arrangements are possible among social animals

Mysterious Mounds in South America Are Likely Worm Poop