The Secret Life of Urban Crows

Tabby’s star is dimming again, and astronomers are excited

Rivers on three worlds tell different tales

33 years ago today a very special episode of Press Your Luck was taped

New Zealand quake scientists make surprising find underground

Antarctica: “mosses that once grew less than a millimeter per year now growing over 3mm per year on average”

Origins of ‘eh’: How 2 little letters came to define Canadians

NASA Notices Unexpected Flashes of Light Reflecting Off Earth

American Trees Are Moving West, and No One Knows Why

Scientists have found a mysterious ‘puffy’ planet with the density of styrofoam

90 years ago today Grace Fryer filed a lawsuit against the employer who was killing her with radioactive paint

‘Molecular Condoms’ Could Be the Best Form of Birth Control Yet

Video: LUNAR – A gorgeous short film about Apollo 11

How hard did it rain on Mars?

The Mystery of the 2,000-Year-Old Iron Beads

When Your Child Is a Psychopath

The Bizarre Story Behind the FBI’€™s Fake Documentary About the Bundy Family

Three murders in Philadelphia in the early 1990s, and three men who didn’t commit them

An Air Force Academy cadet created a bullet-stopping goo to use for body armor

Movie Shows Ceres at Opposition from Sun (one fully lit rotation)

Cosmic rays suggest dark matter is a self-annihilating WIMP

20 years ago today President Clinton apologized on behalf of the nation for a true evil government conspiracy

What causes that feeling of being watched

Closest alien world to our solar system could be ripe for life, models suggest

A Story of Slavery in Modern America

Measles Outbreak Caused by Anti-Vax Campaign, Officials Say

400 year-old mystery of Prince Rupert’s drops finally cracked

Atomic clocks and solid walls: New tools in the search for dark matter

Resurrecting a Dragon: A 3D visualization of the incredibly well preserved nodosaur fossil

Dinosaur asteroid hit ‘worst possible place’

40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found

I acted as a man to get work – until I was accused of rape

“Artificial blowhole” generates electricity from ocean waves

New York’s City only exclusively exotic animal hospital (autoplay video)

Video: The first-ever footage of Narwhals using their tusks for feeding

Finding Lisa: A story of murders, mysteries, loss, and, incredibly, new life

Ancient whale tells tale of when baleen whales had teeth

Elizabeth Taylor, Christie’s, and the Case of the Cursed Necklace

Not a lizard nor a dinosaur, tuatara is the sole survivor of a once-widespread reptile group

Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends?

Clinical review: Psilocybin therapy could be significantly better than current psychiatric treatments

On this day in 1939, a five-year-old child gave birth :(

Radar survey in Egypt leads to discovery of 2,300-year-old necropolis containing 17 mummies

The Painful Truth About Teeth [in America]

Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years

Metal detectorist rewarded with nearly £2m after unearthing Britain’s biggest Viking treasure

Why do mountaineers choose the hardest routes to the top

Let’s obliterate the myth that humans have a bad sense of smell

110-million-year-old dinosaur with skin and soft tissue discovered in Canada

Culprit behind 2014 CIA hack turned out to be … the CIA

Stalin’s Soviet Union comes to life in full color with the discovery of a long-hidden collection of images.

Focus On Infants During Childbirth Leaves U.S. Moms In Danger

We’re Bad at Death. Can We Talk?

NASA’s mission to Mars includes a year-long stay on the moon

The incredible taste of umami was proven in 1907 in Japan—but ignored by the West for a century

NYU Accidentally Exposed Military Code-breaking Computer Project to Entire Internet

Video: history of the entire world, i guess (some salty language)

Where have all the insects gone?

Seeing with Your Tongue

‘All the Men Here Are Either on Drugs or Unemployed’