This Pregnant Medieval Woman With Head Wound ‘Gave Birth’ In Her Grave

Satellite tracking for Tiangong I space station as it begins its atmospheric reentry

Diamond device paves way for first practical microwave lasers

Parasitic Worms Block High Fat Diet-Induced Obesity in Mice

The World’s Best Hitchhiker on the Secrets of His Success

NASA ‘clean’ room is contaminated with fungus

The secret science that rules crowds

Scientists Are Building a Mini-Earth With 8 Tons of Spinning Liquid Sodium

Why Dictators Write

Schools are moving toward a model of continuous, lifelong learning in order to meet the needs of today’s economy

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‘I’ve never seen anything like it.’ Video of mating deep-sea anglerfish stuns biologists

‘Alien’ Mummy Found in Atacama Desert Is Actually a Tiny, Mutated Human

Tragically Lost in Joshua Tree’s Wild Interior

The quest to save Stephen Hawking’s voice

Earwigs take origami to extremes to fold their wings

How the Wild New Materials of the Future Will Be Discovered With AI

Geoengineer polar glaciers to slow sea-level rise

‘The stench of it stays with everybody’: inside the Super Mario Bros movie

Why Would Anyone Kayak Across an Ocean — at 70?

Bird populations across the French countryside have fallen by a third over the last decade and a half

How the Las Vegas Gunman Planned a Massacre, in 7 Days of Video (autoplay with audio)

Taste Buds Dull As People Gain Weight. Now Scientists Think They Know Why

A Star Grazed Our Solar System 70,000 Years Ago, and Early Humans Likely Saw It

Robotic Fish to Keep a Fishy Eye on the Health of the Oceans (autoplay video)

It’s beer, but not as we know it: scientists dispense with need for hops

Scientists Narrow Down When China’s Falling Space Station Will Burn Up in the Atmosphere

Creator of Indigenous adoption program says it wasn’t meant to place kids with white families

Spanish publisher subverts court gag by using Don Quixote to recreate banned book

She Was the Only Woman in a Photo of 38 Scientists, and Now She’s Been Identified

Land of the Lawless

Stephen Hawking’s ashes to be interred near Sir Isaac Newton’s grave

Could the brain produce its own psychedelic compound?

Einstein’s monsters: what the Cold War films of the 1980s can teach us

How A Tick Digs Its Hooks Into You

Why Do We Think Serial Killers All Wear the Same Glasses?

LSD blurs line between ourselves and others, study finds

‘Testilying’ by Police: A Stubborn Problem

Virus fished from pond cures man’s deadly antibiotic-resistant infection

STEM is losing male LGBQ undergrads

Physicist Proposes Alternative to Black Holes

Instead of Nuking an Asteroid Headed Toward Earth, We Could Just Splash It With Paint

Why Don’t Americans Use Bidets?

Extensive Data Shows Punishing Reach of Racism for Black Boys

Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

David Reich Unearths Human History Etched in Bone

Sudan, the Last Male Northern White Rhino, Has Died

UK doctors successfully use stem cell treatment to treat macular degeneration

Platypus milk might save us from bacterial infections, and that’s not even the best thing about them

Federal Agency Courted Alcohol Industry to Fund Study on Benefits of Moderate Drinking

Waging Peace: Vietnam’s anti-war exhibition brings GIs and Viet Cong together

The first black woman aviator had to leave the U.S. in order to achieve her dreams

Did my parents leave me on a hillside to die?

Are Lithuanians obsessed with bees?

Meltdown, Spectre, and the Costs of Unchecked Innovation

Some people repeatedly win the Wisconsin Lottery. Do they play fair?

Talent, luck and success: simulating meritocracy and inequality with stochasticity

Lead is even deadlier than we feared as the full extent of its toxic effects are revealed

It wasn’t just Greece: Archaeologists find early democratic societies in the Americas

Why Don’t We Eat (More) Brains?