Will Cash Disappear?

When Two Become One: Twisted Cosmic Knot Shines in Hubble Photo

The Beautiful Intelligence of Bacteria and Other Microbes

The Greatest Computer Network You’ve Never Heard Of

Canadian journalist Florence Harper covered the Russian Revolution, but almost no one knows her story

Can Carbon-Dioxide Removal Save the World?

Why Can’t Addicts Just Quit?

Gallery: Photos of oceanic creatures that wait until nightfall to emerge from the depths

Tiny human brain organoids implanted in rodents, raising ethical concerns

Free Money: The Surprising Effects of a Basic Income Supplied by Government

The Bridge Wobbles. So Do You. That’s When the Trouble Starts.

Green Beret Discovered SEALs’ Illicit Cash. Then He Was Killed.

Love’s Road Home

Two Murder Convictions for One Fatal Shot

How Picasso Bled the Women in His Life for Art

Harvard scientists think they might have pinpointed the source of human consciousness

Mysterious ‘shadow zone’ traps 2000-year-old water

Is religious belief hard-wired into the brain?

Plastic-eating caterpillars could save the planet

Image: 99 years ago today, World War 1 ended with an abrupt silence

Oral testimony of an Aboriginal massacre now supported by scientific evidence

The Gross Inequality of Organ Transplants in America

Physics Has Demoted Mass

To save a woman besieged by superbugs, scientists hunt a killer virus

1917 Russian Revolution: The gay community’s brief window of freedom

Update on ‘Oumuamua’, Our First Interstellar Object

New film shines light on tiny Colombian island where English is the mother tongue

A combination of Tylenol and Advil worked just as well as opioids for relief of pain in the emergency room, a randomized trial has found

In the Land of Vendettas That Go On Forever

Twenty Years after His Death, Carl Sagan Is Still Right

On the Table, the Brain Appeared Normal

Why Would a 16-Year-Old Girl Slaughter Her Uber Driver?

How the world’s worst investor fleeced clients who couldn’t complain

Reconstructed Roman Temple of Mithras opens to public in London

New analysis of Chicxulub asteroid suggests it may have struck in vulnerable spot

The Astounding Engineering Behind the World’s Largest Optical Telescope

Inside the Business of Body Brokering in the United States

The woman who can’t forget

He Perfected a Password-Hacking Tool—Then the Russians Came Calling

Dead grasshopper discovered in Vincent van Gogh painting

This fungus has over 23,000 sexes and no qualms about it

What makes zombie ants obey

If we can beat Ebola, why not sleeping sickness too?

Children of the colour-blind island – in pictures

On this day in 1973, the remains of an extraordinary tree were dragged out of Ténéré

What Happens If China Makes First Contact?

There’s a Huge Plume of Magma Bulging Against Antarctica

‘The strangest supernova we’ve ever seen’: A star that keeps exploding — and surviving

Genetically Altered Skin Saves A Boy Dying Of A Rare Disease

Spending 45 Days Inside A Fake Spaceship In The Name Of Science

How to Hire Fake Friends and Family

Chopin’s Heart, Pickled in a Jar, Offers Clues to His Death

Sheep learned to recognize photos of Obama and other celebrities, neuroscientists say

On this day in 1939 an unlikely assassin attempted to remove Hitler

Is Disney paying its share in Anaheim? The money battle outside the Happiest Place on Earth

Help name the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft

Alma’s image of red giant star gives a surprising glimpse of the Sun’s future

Archaeologists unearth ‘masterpiece’ sealstone in Greek tomb

The Wines of Gala: Salvador Dalí’s Surrealist Wine Guide Republished for the First Time in 40 Years

Astronomers spot oldest galaxy ever detected by looking back in time 11 billion years