‘He should be as well known as Schindler’: Documents reveal Canadian citizen Julius Kuhl as Holocaust hero

Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

The 1920 peace plan for Europe that divided up the continent like a pie

On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived another atomic bomb

Video: NASA Curiosity rover’s 5-year time-lapse

‘Quite a treasure’: Scientists find 4,200-year-old bird preserved in glacial ice

Multilevel-marketing companies like LuLaRoe are forcing people into debt and psychological crisis

1,000-year-old German dinner reveals long-distance Viking trade routes

The Hippies Who Hated the Summer of Love

Dark Matter May Be Trapped in All the Black Holes

Why Germans pay cash for almost everything

Better Business Through Sci-Fi

The confusing world of the Liger

Rich SF residents get a shock: Someone bought their street

There would have been no mass dino extinction if the asteroid had arrived ten minutes earlier or later

Mushroom rises from fungus buried in sea for 20 million years

After 5 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries

How a fish tank helped hack a casino

The Man Who Picked Victorian London’s Unpickable Lock

On this day in 1931, an old, retrofitted submarine set out for the north pole

Evidence that ancient farms had very different origins than previously thought

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case

Having trouble sleeping? Blame evolution, study says

Hubble Telescope Detects Stratosphere on Huge Alien Planet

The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe

See the exquisite fossil that revealed the colors of a giant armored nodosaur

Ever-Elusive Neutrinos Spotted Bouncing Off Nuclei for the First Time

Losing It in the Anti-Dieting Age

They were partners in fighting crime. The only problem: Neither was a cop

The Arsonist Was Like a Ghost

Spending six days in a cave without any light means hallucinations, hypothermia, and the potential for fatal falls

Why Corrupt Bankers Avoid Jail: Prosecution of white-collar crime is at a twenty-year low

Three visual illusions that reveal the hidden workings of the brain

She Was Convicted of Killing Her Mother. Prosecutors Withheld the Evidence That Would Have Freed Her.

The Secret Economic Lives of Animals

Mother of all blooms: is this what the last common ancestor of flowers looked like?

Inmates use peanut butter to escape Alabama jail

Scientist may have solved the century-old mystery of why a legendary Civil War submarine sank

Proxima b Probably Isn’t Habitable After All, NASA Says

A New Explanation for One of the Strangest Occurrences in Nature—Ball Lightning

What Exactly is Bubble Gum Flavor?

A race is on to discover Planet Nine using classical astronomy and new computational techniques

“Ghost forests”: What they are and why they’re becoming more common

This teen stalker stole Queen Victoria’s panties and lived in Buckingham Palace chimneys for a year

The Violent, Lonely World of Myanmar’s Child Boxers

China’s supercomputer simulated the Universe with 10 trillion digital particles

The Space Launch System—the most powerful rocket ever built

The Drug Runners

Busted: How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Bellevue

NASA scientists will chase solar eclipse in jets

New computer models back theory that life is an inevitable outcome of thermodynamics

Inside the Insane History of the World’s Greatest White House Replica

Video: Extraordinary Octopus Takes To Land (BBC Earth)

Why astronomers reluctantly announced a possible exomoon discovery

Meet the Other Legendary Female Aviator (who Could Drink Any Sailor Under the Table)

Blue light from digital devices could contribute to sleep dysfunction by suppressing melatonin

Gold lunar module stolen from Neil Armstrong museum in Ohio

Sea-level rise could destroy Tampa Bay if a major hurricane hits

Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Cake Bacteria by 1,400 Percent

Is the world really better than ever?