Explorers Say They’ve Found the World’s Deepest Underwater Cave

Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget

Happy ‘Galactic Tick Day’!

Natural born killers: humans predisposed to murder, study suggests

How being alone may be the key to rest

Researchers find that riding a roller coaster can help dislodge kidney stones

Image: Nifty new photo of Saturn from the Cassini probe

The Man Who Almost Missed Puberty

For First Time, Destruction Of Cultural Sites Leads To War Crime Conviction

First ‘three person baby’ born using new method

Celebrity molecules promised to transform our health, but haven’t always lived up to their billing

Video: SpaceX Interplanetary Transport System proposal for colonization of Mars

The Month That Killed the Sixties

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All

Further evidence that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa throws jets of water out into space

Three Working Stuntmen, Battle-Tested With the Scars to Match

On the high-risk, poorly regulated police practice of enlisting young offenders as confidential informants

In San Francisco, a Sinking Skyscraper and a Deepening Dispute

China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope

The untold stories of Japanese war brides

Photographer Nicky Bay Documents Mirror Spiders Adjusting their Silver Plates to Appear More Reflective

Cheese in a healthy diet could actually protect against cardiovascular and metabolic diseases

When Nazis held mass rallies in Madison Square Garden

‘Hangover-free alcohol’ could replace all regular alcohol by 2050, says David Nutt

Fish recorded singing dawn chorus on reefs just like birds

Women of the CIA: The Hidden History of American Spycraft (autoplay video)

The Medical Mystery of Hair That Whitens Overnight

Scientists use ‘virtual unwrapping’ to read ancient burned scrolls

Online sleuth solves perplexing mystery of identity thief Lori Ruff

The story of ‘Big Lonely Doug,’ a solitary, towering survivor of logging in a Canadian old-growth forest

Video: The Hubble Deep Field, explained by the man who made it happen

Documentary (2000): People living in an abandoned Amtrak tunnel under Manhattan (strong language, drug use)

Neandertals made their own jewelry, new method confirms

The secret lives of long-lived particles

Man v rat: could the long war soon be over?

China’s space agency confirms the Tiangong space station will burn up sometime late next year.

BBC Interactive: Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Baclofen: the controversial pill that could ‘cure’ alcoholism

The cypherpunk revolution

Scientists have created a drug that replicates the health benefits of exercise

‘Perfectly preserved’ Nazi time capsule from 1934 found in Poland

Pigeons can read a little bit, new research shows

A century ago two sworn enemies came together with a plan to feed America using hippo meat

The woman who is allergic to water

Astronomers capture best view ever of disintegrating comet

So you think you can fake your own death?

The Truck Stop Killer

Cognitive bias cheat sheet

Scientists reveal most accurate depiction of a dinosaur ever created

Tank at 100: Baptism of fire, fear and blood

The love story that shocked the world (warning: autoplay video)

New fertilization technique could allow male couples to combine DNA to produce offspring

Over one billion stars pinpointed in Gaia’s new Milky Way map

Video: The theoretical physics of torus-shaped planets

How discovering an equation for altruism cost George Price everything

Study: Large earthquakes are more likely to occur at times of a full or new moon.

The brain’s stunning genomic diversity revealed

Brain-sensing technology allows typing at 12 words per minute

The FBI Accused Him of Terrorism. He Couldn’t Tie His Shoes.

New Map Shows Where Earth Has Gained and Lost Land