A Radar Blip, a Flash of Light: How U.F.O.s ‘Exploded’ Into Public View

Air pollution linked to changes in heart structure

Bodies Keep Shrinking on This Island, and Scientists Aren’t Sure Why

A Japanese medical university lowered women’s test scores because it was a “necessary evil”

Asgardia: The problems in building a space society

The Race to Launch From U.S. Soil Heats Up

Ultracold Atoms Provide Insight into Early Universe’s Dramatic Expansion

Denialism: what drives people to reject the truth

Newly Discovered Cell Type May Fuel Cystic Fibrosis

CRISPR creates new species with single giant chromosome

71 years ago today the Star Dust disappeared amid mysterious circumstances

Cracking the Secrets of Old Faithful’s Geyser Eggs

Can What You Eat Affect Your Mood?

Doctors cut out a large chunk of a boy’s brain—now he’s doing just fine

John Egerton was more than a Tennessee journalist who crusaded for civil rights

The tipping point: Service sector employees are more susceptible to mental health issues

‘Mini-storytellers’: Japanese children pass on horror of Nagasaki bombings

When the Mind’s Eye Is Blind

Tyrian Purple: The regal colour taken from mollusc mucus

Scientists identify exoplanets where life could develop as it did on Earth

What does it take to understand spiders? False eyelashes, capes and face paint

Thieves escape by motorboat after royal jewels heist in Sweden

Blue diamonds come from ocean floor pushed to the edge of Earth’s core

Scientists Are ‘Spying On Whales’ To Learn How They Eat, Talk And … Walked?

Bacteria becoming resistant to hospital disinfectants, warn scientists

That’s Not Algae Swirling on the Beach. Those Are Green Worms.

How likely are you to survive a plane crash?

Asteroid Sample-Return Spacecraft Are Approaching Their Targets

How Indirect Violence Gets Under a Child’s Skin — and Into the Brain

How to tell the difference between persuasion and manipulation

Video: Stars orbiting the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

Here’s What Earth’s Shadow Actually Looks Like

Home Sweet Homer: The Strange Saga of the Real-Life Simpsons House in Nevada

A Pregnant Dolphin. A Fatal Gunshot. A Disturbing Trend.

Axes of Evil: Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III

Ancient Greek music: now we finally know what it sounded like

How to Make Friends, According to Science

Hubble Takes Portrait of Opulent Ring World

45 years ago today Uri Geller failed to impress Johnny Carson

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

‘Spectacular’ ancient public library discovered in Germany

Petrichor: why does rain smell so good?

Exoplanet detectives create catalog of ‘light-fingerprints’ of our own Solar System

How a U.S. Military Contractor Wanted to Use Jetpacks in the Vietnam War

What Do Wild Animals Do in Wildfires?

Do bacteria ever go extinct? New research says yes, bigtime

The Sunspot Cycle Is More Intricate Than Previously Thought

Evolving Floorplans

Enormous penguin population crashes by almost 90%

Off Your Mental Game? You Could Be Mildly Dehydrated

The ISS Doesn’t Have a Way to Crash Safely

An unsolved murder at Italy’s most notorious tower block

A Math Theory for Why People Hallucinate

It’s Tough Being a Right Whale These Days

MH370 Was ‘Manipulated’ Off Course to Its End, Report Says

The structure of the Milky Way

‘Global Greening’ Sounds Good. In the Long Run, It’s Terrible.

How Liquefying Brains Changed the Story of the Human Mind

A Flower in the Debris: The Legacy of Benihana, Rocky Aoki’s All-American Empire

Is neuroscience getting closer to explaining evil behaviour?