Study: Walking to work or doing the vacuuming can extend your life

Neanderthal children were slow to grow up — just like modern kids

3D-printable synthetic muscle is three times stronger than you

Portugal treats addiction as a disease, not a crime.

This hacker gained access to hundreds of companies through their helpdesk

The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project

On this day in 1979, a nuclear bomb was detonated in the Indian Ocean…maybe

Scientists just discovered the first brainless animal that sleeps

Cassini’s Final Full Image Of Saturn Before It Destroyed Itself Is Breathtaking

The correct way to be a cannibal

These Women Are the Last Thing Standing Between You and Nuclear War

The Spotlight Effect: How to Stop Being So Self Conscious All the Time

Lightning storms triggered by exhaust from cargo ships

Access denied: wheelchair metro maps versus everyone else’s

How flying seriously messes with your mind

The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason [mild spoilers for the book Seveneves]

This Is One of the Strangest Objects Ever Discovered in the Solar System

Shellfish Surprise: Common ‘Herbivore’ Dinosaur Found To Snack On Crustaceans

The Electronic Computers, Part 2: Colossus

A Brain Built From Atomic Switches Can Learn

Video: The girl born with her heart outside her chest

Mysterious flesh-eating bacteria is raging in Australia

The Mysterious Origins of the Phrase ‘Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire’

Treasure Island: The Extraordinary Finds of an Amateur Diving Club in Holland

She told them she was Hugo Chavez’s ex-wife and worked in the White House. And she’d make them rich.

The problem for the world’s most expensive spice

Photo: Sandwiches for sale. London, 1972

Keepers of the Secrets

Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think

The boy who killed – and the mother who tried to stop him

Video: Rotary Jails and Accidental Amputations

Light has been stored as sound for the first time – one step closer to photonic computers

Insight Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2017 winners – in pictures

The U.S. Navy’s most advanced submarines will soon be using Xbox controllers

Size matters when it comes to extinction

Mutant butterflies reveal the genetic roots of colorful wings

Ancient Canadian meteor strike created hottest rock on Earth

Institution M: the German spy on trial for evading millions in tax

Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs—And That’s a Big Deal

This Crystal Mimics Learning and Forgetting

Gut Germs Appear to Play Role in Multiple Sclerosis

Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction?

Octlantis is a just-discovered underwater city engineered by octopuses

‘I was just doing my job’: Soviet officer who averted nuclear war dies at age 77

My Drowning (And Other Inconveniences)

What’s Killing the World? High Blood Pressure, Poor Diet, Tobacco, Huge New Study Says (autoplay video)

How Don Hewitt Invented 60 Minutes and Changed Journalism Forever

Much ado about nothing: ancient Indian text contains earliest zero symbol

Lazy ants make themselves useful in unexpected ways

On this day in 1920 a deadly terrorist attack struck Wall Street in New York City

The Parasite That Wires Plants Together

Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

A Letter to Einstein from the Future

Prehistoric frogs were predators with fangs, U of T researchers find

Hookworm, a disease of extreme poverty, is thriving in the US south. Why?

“For the first time in 300 years there’s not a single living person on the island of Barbuda”

A nationwide reporting adventure tracks improbably frequent lottery winners

Cottage Country Murder: After 20 years, police still can’t find the bodies of the 4 missing seniors in Muskoka

The Contentious Physics of Wiffle Ball

Untangling the Controversial Legacy of Sigmund Freud