Fungi made life on Earth possible, researchers claim

How quantum computing will change the world

The Greatest Leap, Part 3: The triumph and near-tragedy of the first Moon landing

Get Ready For A Meatless Meat Explosion, As Big Food Gets On Board

Riding a Time Capsule to Apartment 8G

China’s Crazy Plan to Keep Sand From Swallowing the World

NASA solves how a Jupiter jet stream shifts into reverse

Mass of Warm Rock Rising Beneath New England, Rutgers Study Suggests

He Stole $100 Million From His Clients. Now He’s Living in Luxury

Uncertain Inheritance: Epigenetics and the Poisoning of Michigan

Older Adults’ Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep

Oldest fossils ever found show life on Earth began before 3.5 billion years ago

Stealth turns 40: Looking back at the first flight of Have Blue

More Hurricanes? Prepare for Stormier Pop Charts

What It’s Like to Evacuate a Museum in a Natural Disaster

The Russian Villagers Living In The Shadow Of A Nuclear Tragedy

Deliverance From 27,000 Feet

Marsupial long thought extinct rediscovered living in the Australian desert

Africa’s new elite force: women gunning for poachers and fighting for a better life

A mysterious case baffling authorities may involve body brokers

How the Index Card Cataloged the World

As Venezuela Collapses, Children Are Dying of Hunger

When the Cure Is the Cause: The Case of the Green Hairy Tongue

We may know why younger brothers are more likely to be gay

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Norway votes to decriminalise drugs and offer treatment instead of jail time

The (Math) Problem With Pentagons

A 3-Mile-Wide ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Will Fly by Earth on Saturday. Here’s How to Watch

The science that’s never been cited

Overcoming Us vs. Them

The College Student Who Decoded the Data Hidden in Inca Knots

The Las Vegas Resort Using Microwaves to Keep Guns Out of its Casino

‘High-status’ portrait of bearded woman bought by Wellcome Collection

The Lucrative Art of Chicken Sexing

No Signals Detected From Interstellar Visitor

Star system has record eight exoplanets

New underwater discoveries in Greece reveal ancient Roman engineering

‘€˜A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off

How forced marriage saved a US defector in North Korea

AVATAR Therapy for Auditory Hallucinations: If You Can’t Beat the Voices, Join Them

Newly Declassified Documents: Gorbachev Told NATO Wouldn’t Move Past East German Border

New research shows that blurring the boundaries between work and personal life can lead to exhaustion

Spies, Dossiers, and the Insane Lengths Restaurants Go to Track and Influence Food Critics

Turning Piglets Into Personalized Avatars for Sick Kids

Image: 45 years ago today, humans last set foot on the moon

The Plot to Bomb Garden City, Kansas

Meet the all-purpose survival cracker, the Cold War-era nutrition solution for life after a nuclear blast

This tiny South Pacific Island should be dead by now, but it’s still alive and kicking

New observations suggest America’s Pluto probe will see more than one object on its next flyby

Giant Prehistoric Penguins Once Swam Off The Coast Of New Zealand

We can make plants pass out—with the same drugs that mysteriously knock us out

Motorcycle-related deaths more common during full moon, study finds

Amber-Trapped Tick Suggests Ancient Bloodsuckers Feasted On Feathered Dinosaurs

The monster storm on Jupiter is 200 miles deep

Algorithms made him a Wall Street billionaire. His new research center helps scientists mine data for the common good.

Apollo 8 and the 50/50 bet that won the Space Race for America

Gallery: A Drone’s Eye View of New York

Cassini may be dead, but a new era of Saturn science has just begun

NASA’s Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot

Why Experts Don’t Believe This Is a Rare First Map of America