This feathery dinosaur probably flew, but not like any bird you know

The search for interstellar water

Ignoring Science at Our Peril

On this day in 1720 Charles Bonnet was born, the namesake for a surprisingly common phenomenon

Superconducting materials found in meteorites

‘I Cheated,’ Says Woodworker Who Fooled the Antiques Experts

The cliff that changed our understanding of time

Asteroid Bennu: Target of Sample Return Mission

DARPA looks to slow biological time to save lives on the battlefield

How Psychopaths See the World

It’s All Right to Be Wrong in Science

Newer Horizons: Scientist Pitch Pluto Probe as a Unique Deep-Space Telescope

These Early Humans Prospered During What Should Have Been a Devastating Volcanic Winter

Ancient Cave Paintings in Chile Have Been Irreversibly Damaged by Graffiti

Fat Leonard’s Crimes on the High Seas

The voices of ancient women

An inside look at how Sweden is building the world’s second-longest tunnel

Genes have a role in empathy, study says

The Weird World Inside a Pitcher Plant

15 new planets confirmed around cool dwarf stars

A ghost island in the middle of the Indian Ocean

The Hubble Space Telescope Captured This Beautiful Image of Two Galaxies Merging

Inside the Colorado Vault That Keeps Your Favorite Foods From Going Extinct

You Can Have Emotions You Don’t Feel

Why Do We Even Wear Pants? 

The Secret to a Longer Life? Don’t Ask These Dead Longevity Researchers

The movie star who doubled as a groundbreaking inventor

Watch the High-Flying Physics of a Plant’s Exploding Fruits

Is vitamin D really a cure-all – and how should we get our fix?

FCC Accuses Stealthy Startup of Launching Rogue Satellites

Staying awake: the surprisingly effective way to treat depression

AI Has a Hallucination Problem That’s Proving Tough to Fix

Operation Bayonet: Inside the Sting That Hijacked an Entire Dark Web Drug Market

The Killers of Kiev: How Putin Created an Assassin’s Metropolis

Alien atmospheres recreated on Earth

Scientists control tiny ‘factories’ in engineered cells

Clocks are running slow across Europe because of an argument over who pays the electricity bill

How do 11 people go to jail for one murder?

Hawaii: Where Evolution Can Be Surprisingly Predictable

Daylight Saving Time is literally killing us

On this day in 1974 WW2 finally ended for Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda

Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the immortal mysteries she created

The Fish That Makes Other Fish Smarter

Can we bring hearts back from the dead?

Cells eat and regurgitate your tattoos

Rome’s Subway Project Keeps Digging Up Archaeological Marvels

Why You Can’t Remember Being a Kid

Women We Overlooked in 167 Years of New York Times Obituaries

Super-deep diamond provides first evidence in nature of Earth’s fourth most abundant mineral

The Leaked NSA Spy Tool That Hacked the World

Mapping the genome jungle: Unique animal traits could offer insight into human disease

Oxygen and Stem Cells May Have Reshaped Early Complex Animals

Deep gas bands, shapely cyclones — NASA’s Juno reveals more of Jupiter’s secrets

The Perfect Man Who Wasn’t

Every Year, the Swiss Cover Their Melting Glaciers in White Blankets

The Long, Knotty, World-Spanning Story of String

Iconic Stellar Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought

Arctic has warmest winter on record: ‘It’s just crazy, crazy stuff’

Sunken World War II Aircraft Carrier Found by Deep-Sea Expedition (autoplay video)

Scientists crack 70-year-old mystery of how magnetic waves heat the sun