SETI’s followup on the “interesting” detection from star HD 164595

Abandoned in Iraq: Inside Two Soldiers’ Harrowing Escape

The Contestant Who Outsmarted The Price Is Right

Video: A Day in Pompeii – computer-animated simulation of the AD 79 eruption of Mt Vesuvius

A Tiny Jellyfish Relative Just Shut Down Yellowstone River

Visual nudge can disrupt recall of what things look like

Mars simulation ends after a year on Hawaiian mountain

NASA’s Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby

An Interesting SETI Candidate in Hercules

Video: The Secret History of China’s Female Emperor

Study: BMIs of adopted children correlates strongly with biological parents, not their adoptive parents

Researchers discover first known RNA animal virus with separate segments of genetic material

“Plasma actuators” could power a future generation of airplane wings

The man with the golden blood

The Mammoth Pirates: In Russia’s Arctic north, a new kind of gold rush is under way.

Firefighter Patrick Hardison Feels ‘Normal’ A Year After Face Transplant

Astronomers detect a large galaxy made almost entirely of dark matter

The Secret Nazi Attempt to Breed the Perfect Horse

Crusader-era “hand grenade” found in deceased man’s private antique collection.

Earlier rumors confirmed: Earth-Like Planet Found Orbiting the Nearest Star to the Sun

An MIT Scientist Claims That This Pill Is the Fountain of Youth

How a Curious Condition Solved a Neuroscientific Mystery

Sitting Up: A brief history of chairs

Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America

Wind musicians warned over hygiene as fatal case of ‘bagpipe lung’ reported

Rare photo of “gigantic jet lightning” over China

How To Investigate a Flying Saucer, according to the CIA

Study: Divorce is seasonal, peaks following family vacations

As Homeless Find Refuge in Forests, ‘Anger Is Palpable’ in Nearby Towns

In-browser 3D nebula explorer (warning: autoplay music)

The tragic story of Sheffield’s Park Hill bridge

The story of how some parents decided to fight back against child protective services

“I Went on a Weeklong Cruise For Conspiracy Theorists. It Ended Poorly.”

Ottawa man’s paralyzed hand moves again 18 months after landmark surgery

NASA just made all its research available online for free

The Life and Murder of Stella Walsh, Intersex Olympic Champion

Video: Boredom and its physiological manifestation

The Unauthorized, Daredevil Documentation of the Horizons Ride at Disney World

The Blind Man Who Taught Himself to See

Video: Dividing by zero on an old mechanical calculator

Clothing study reveals stylish secrets of leather-loving ancient

Video: Restoring Leonardo’s five-century-old painting “The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne”

Brain scans hint at an explanation for the phenomenon of déjà vu

Why There’s New Hope About Ending Blindness

Googly-Eyed Purple Squid Sighting Delights Scientists

Newly discovered blue whirl fire tornado burns cleaner for reduced emissions

Mystery of Cahokia – why did North America’s largest city vanish?

The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted Its 1980 Olympic Village Into a Prison

Roach milk inspires food supplement

The Man Who Created Bigfoot

The CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, published 1944 (PDF)

How the Hunt Brothers Cornered the Silver Market and Then Lost it All

Solar storms, a cause of northern lights, nearly led to nuclear war in 1967

“Earth-like” planet possibly discovered orbiting our nearest solar neighbor Proxima Centauri

The Strange Brain of the World’s Greatest Solo Climber

Five years after the tsunami, a husband still searches the sea for his wife

The race to save a dying language

Cassini Finds Flooded Canyons on Titan

A mysterious object has been discovered with an inexplicable orbit

The fight over the brain of “H.M.” – the patient who revolutionized the science of memory.