Physicists just discovered a second state of liquid water

Ancient Scratched Stones: World’s Earliest Maps or Magic Artifacts?

Mystery of the Pulsating Spider

First home brain implant lets ‘locked-in’ woman play games

‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found

Princeton Team Directly Observes Planets Around Nearby Stars

Physicists say they’ve produced the first ‘supersolid’, and it’s even stranger than predicted

Brain implants allow paralysed monkeys to walk

Documentary: Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, narrated by Jon Ronson

How Your Brain Decides Without You

Image: On this day in 1918, WW1 officially ended with an abrupt silence, as illustrated by this sound ranging tape.

The truth about a strange blood-sucking monster

DeafBlind Americans developed a language that doesn’t involve sight or sound

New, 66 million year old species of feathered dinosaur found by construction workers in China

Archaeologists find a 1,000 year old Viking toolbox and tools at a ring fortress site in Denmark

The Mirror Effect: How the rise of mirrors in the fifteenth century shaped our idea of the individual

Video series: Imaginary numbers are real

Australians researchers have built a better qubit

The History of Butter

Before Helen Keller, There Was Laura Bridgman

Residents of an Arctic village find thousands of large, spherical snowballs covering a beach after heavy storm

Scientists snare their first ever observations of a solar wave erupting upward from a sunspot

Venezuela, a Failing State

You Can Have Emotions You Don’t Feel

Inside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory: NASA’s Crazy, Kooky, Legendary Research Facility

Two-Headed Sharks Keep Popping Up—No One Knows Why

The Story of ‘Ella and Louis,’ 60 Years Later

1986 video showing Carnegie Mellon’s NavLab 1, one of the first experimental self-driving cars

A Guy Walks Into a Bar — and Is Never Seen Again

Forget self-driving car anxiety: In the early days human drivers were the fear

What Happens When Crowds Try To Flee For Their Lives

Time to Dump Time Zones

“Space without space,” a visualization of all of our solar system’s solid surfaces (from xkcd)

For the first time, scientists have produced solid metallic hydrogen in a laboratory

ISU physicists help demonstrate existence of new subatomic structure

The James Webb Space Telescope is finally completed after 20 years

Human brain is predisposed to negative stereotypes, new study suggests

Astronomers Discover a “Nearly Naked” Supermassive Black Hole

The Legend of the Slap-Boxing Wife-Swappers of Panama

Canadian army interested in old nuke that may have been found off Haida Gwaii (autoplay video)

Two well-preserved mummified cave lion cubs found in northern Russia’s 30,000-year-old permafrost

Are Whales the Source of the Mysterious Noise In Canada’s Arctic?

Bellagio Bandit: How One Man Robbed Vegas’ Biggest Casino and Almost Got Away

Inside the brain of the man who would be ‘Blindfold King’ of chess

The first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was a 63-year-old teacher

The secret world of microwave networks

Video: Is This What Quantum Mechanics Looks Like?

First discovery of 50,000-year-old human settlements in Australian interior

The Dairy Industry Lost $420 Million From a Flaw in a Single Bull

The audacious plan to bring back supersonic flight

The Simpsons by the Data

The Simple Logical Puzzle That Shows How Illogical We Are

‘Post-Fire London was a magnificent, beautiful compromise’

How liars create the ‘illusion of truth’

Insects Are Scary Because Your Brain Confuses Disgust With Fear

The pyramid at the end of the world

The Tragedy That Boston Forgot

The secret of how life on Earth began

The FBI’s years-long investigation into a fictional anti-goth cult

The Legend of What Actually Lived in the “No Man’s Land” Between World War I’s Trenches