Narcissists ‘irritating but successful’

Spatial overlap leads to useful quantum entanglement, say physicists

Bees get stressed at work too (and it might be causing colony collapse)

Real-Life Schrödinger’s Cats Probe the Boundary of the Quantum World

Spain leads the world in organ donation. What’s stopping other countries catching up?

Divers in Thailand Scour Cave for Missing Soccer Team and Coach

Cockatoo discovery reveals flourishing medieval trade routes around Australia’s north

Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall

The Rise and Fall of New York Public Housing: An Oral History

Second Spanish church falls prey to well-intentioned restorer

Japan’s Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Creeps Up on the Ryugu Asteroid

The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger

In a High-Stakes Environmental Whodunit, Many Clues Point to China

Why non-smokers are getting lung cancer

Royal Observatory at Greenwich working for first time since London smog shut down telescopes 60 years ago

There Is No Biological Difference Between Male And Female Brains

Why The Thinker should be called The Mourner

New technique brings secrets out of old daguerreotypes

Fantastic New View of Ryugu Asteroid Reveals a Distinctly Dice-Like Shape

The Neuroscience of Pain

The nuclear bunker in ‘Europe’s North Korea’

People with “Maladaptive Daydreaming” spend an average of four hours a day lost in their imagination

When It’s Good to Be Antisocial

DNA on napkin used to crack 32-year-old cold case, police say

The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life

NASA gives Jupiter the Van Gogh treatment with magnificent new image

Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You’re Not Alone.

Targeted: A Family and the Quest to Stop the Next School Shooter

Nearly 400 years later, the fork remains at the center of American dining controversy

How one man went from hunting meteorites to being hunted by the law

Why it’s okay for bilingual children to mix languages

What if we knew when and how we’d die?

My Daughter Is Trapped Under Five Feet of Snow

The Fight for the Right to Be Cremated by Water

Are humans still evolving?

Music that upsets expectations is what makes your gray matter sing

The world blurs when I’m on tour with the band

How Pots and Pans Turned Us Into Creative Cooks

A Rattle with Death in Yosemite

Selfies show worm slithered through woman’s face for 2 weeks

Letters From the Archives: Harry Truman Explains Why He Dropped the Bomb

Image: Once in a Blue Dune

Inside a Heist of American Chip Designs, as China Bids for Tech Power

FBI Releases Study of Pre-Attack Behaviors of Active Shooters (PDF)

U-M researchers create world’s smallest ‘computer’

He stole the identity of a dead 8-year-old. Police now want to know what he was hiding from

‘Drunken’ kangaroos may be suffering grass poisoning, vets say

Basement Preservationists: Can Hobbyists Save Rare Fish from Extinction?

Cyprus turns off taps to farmers as fresh water levels drop

To Believe is to Feel: When a Mysterious Epidemic Isn’t So Mysterious

Putting the brakes on metastatic cancer

The ‘Baby’ that ushered in modern computer age

Keystone Virus Makes Jump From Mosquitoes To Human For First Time

The unlikely home of the world’s smallest desert

The Final Hours of the Iceman’s Tools

When a Mars Simulation Goes Wrong

To save money, my insurance company forced me to try drugs that didn’t work

Gene-edited farm animals are on their way

Feeding the gods: Hundreds of skulls reveal massive scale of human sacrifice in Aztec capital

Magnetic Sense Helps Billions of Moths on an Australian Migration