The U.S. Doesn’t Want Anyone Messing With the Apollo Landing Sites

Researchers capture first ever images of microglia eating brain synapses

How a Young Woman Lost Her Identity

Mumbai’s leopards have killed humans – but could they also be saving lives?

‘Orange snow’ baffles eastern Europeans

Having Your Smartphone Nearby Takes a Toll on Your Thinking

The Former Khmer Rouge Slave Who Blew the Whistle on Wells Fargo

Solving the Suicide Crisis in the Arctic Circle

The tale of The Clapper, a device that introduced millions of people to the idea of simple home automation

The indictment of Schlitterbahn Waterpark following multiple injuries and a decapitation on a water slide (PDF)

Uzi Nissan Spent 8 Years Fighting The Car Company With His Name

Video: “Smoke-Breathing” Elephant Stumps Scientists

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

Read The Oregonian’s original 20-part investigative series on Rajneeshees

‘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