High efficiency ultra-thin planar lens could replace heavy, bulky lenses in smart phones, cameras and telescopes

Samples of personal ads from the past two centuries

There is a way to find fossils of Martian life

Does an Octopus Have an Inner Life?

A startup says a 50-trillion-pixel image of Earth, refreshed daily, is coming later this year

American Food Science Is Broken

A Danish astronaut has captured the best-ever images of rare blue flashes

“…in the United States young children have close to a one in two chance of living on the brink of poverty”

Ultrasound dramatically accelerates the process of aging liquor

‘It was as if I had peered into hell’: the man who brought the Nazi death squads to justice

Who Started the First Fire?

Giant winged Transylvanian predators could have eaten dinosaurs

The Darkest Town In America

We finally have a computer that can survive the surface of Venus

Total recall: the people who never forget

Astronomers discover the first white dwarf pulsar in history, ending half a century of searching

Sweden’s ‘latte pappas’ are dads with lowered testosterone and elevated hormones of attachment

Why Dragonfly Wings Kill Bacteria

Why the Higgs Boson Found at the Large Hadron Collider Could Be an ‘Impostor’

Searching for California’s lost Viking treasure ship

This Crab Clones Its Allies by Ripping Them in Half

Your Personality Changes When You Move to a New Place

At the Rock Springs massacre, 28 people were killed because white miners feared Chinese immigrants

Study: School shootings “significantly correlated to increases in economic insecurity”

The hidden history of Nasa’s black female scientists

Calculating what it would take to park a solar sail at Alpha Centauri

Photo: Saturn, rings edge-on, with the moon Enceladus near the bottom center

She Received 65 Proposals, but Never Married

This robot flies by mimicking the flight of bats

Misophonia: Scientists crack why eating sounds can make people angry

Heisenberg’s Astrophysics Prediction Finally Confirmed After 80 Years

The Brain’s Connections Shrink During Sleep

The surgeon giving his patients VR instead of sedatives

On the “self-enhancement” effect, and how it can have negative consequences for all of us

Indirectly detecting black holes via “tails” of gas

Monitoring Post-Mortem Gene Transcription in Mice and Zebrafish

Is Willpower a Finite Resource, or a Myth?

The unimaginable, infamous case of Pam Hupp

How Psychologists Determine Whether Someone Is Faking Insanity

Documentary: The story of Kevin Mitnick, infamous 80s-era computer hacker

“Science curious” more likely to explore data contradicting their world view

How to Fund an Expedition

Did a violin teacher from Plano, Texas solve the world’s greatest classical music mystery?

The hi-tech war on science fraud

The story of the strange apparent reappearance of an American commando, MIA in Vietnam since 1968

‘Startling’ dinosaur protein discovery

Matter-antimatter asymmetry confirmed in baryons

LSD unlocks how our brains impart meaningfulness

The man who sold his back to an art dealer

38,000-year-old carving includes enigmatic “punctuation” pattern

Embarrassing bodies: what did the Victorians have to hide?

Computer Lets Fully Paralyzed Patients Speak for First Time

What happened to black Germans under the Nazis

Our 9,000-Year Love Affair With Booze

A peek into what the NASA twins study will reveal about a manned mission to Mars

Scientists find a new process to make valuable graphene using soybean oil

Milky Way being pushed through space by cosmic dead zone, say scientists

A huge mouth and no anus – this could be our earliest known ancestor

Saturn’s B Ring, Finer Than Ever

Study finds first observational evidence that our universe could be a vast, complex hologram