Mars and the Waves of Darkening

Parker Solar Probe Launches on NASA Voyage to ‘Touch the Sun’ [autoplay video]

An L.A. County deputy faked evidence. Here’s how his misconduct was kept secret in court for years

The Nastiest Feud in Science

Primate speech: How some species are ‘wired’ for talk

Sunken Warship Said to Have Billions in Gold Looks Like It Was a Cryptocurrency Scam

Italy’s Olive Trees Are Dying. Can They Be Saved?

PETA roasts Impossible Burger for rat tests, suggests patties cause cancer

The science behind interrupting: gender, nationality and power, and the roles they play

The Unbelievable Story of North Korea’s Most-Celebrated Propagandist

Airline employee steals and crashes plane

An Underwater Irish Canyon Is Sucking CO2 Out of the Atmosphere

The uncensored history of the Internet’s drug revolution

The Man Who Solved Bitcoin’s Most Notorious Heist

Maria Konnikova Shows Her Cards

Why Gene Editing Is the Next Food Revolution

Why This Star-Packed Region of Space Is Likely Devoid of Life

It’s Easier to Leave the Solar System Than to Reach the Sun

The ‘Steely-Eyed Killer’ Who Became a Star on Fox News – Then Lost It All

First coronal mass ejection from a star other than the sun observed

7 Fake Journalist Names the U.S. Government Used to Spread Propaganda During the 1950s

What does a meteor sound like?

The World’s Fastest Creature Is Not What You Think

Do people with a high IQ age more slowly?

To Boldly Go: the Hurried Evolution of Star Trek’s Opening Narration

Is nicotine actually bad for you?

Mini antimatter accelerator to open doors to particle physics mysteries

Language: ‘untranslatable’ words tell us more about English speakers than other cultures

Today the Parker Solar Probe Is Named for Him. 60 Years Ago, No One Believed His Ideas About the Sun.

Dude, She’s (Exactly 25 Percent) Out of Your League

Study helps solve mystery under Jupiter’s coloured bands

The Nagasaki Bombing Almost Didn’t Happen

Science Has Resolved the Question of Boxers vs. Briefs

New Medications May Increase Available Organs for Transplant

Howard Thurston, the Magician Who Disappeared

Should the U.S. Air Force Bomb Forest Fires?

Chemists discover how blue light speeds blindness

Scientists Discover The Secret Weapon Of Stomach Viruses

The Wonder Plant That Could Slash Fertilizer Use

NASA Is Trying To Save Us From The Sun

Bag of Sex Toys Incites Panic at Berlin Airport, Bomb Squad Called and Terminal Shut Down

Dinosaurs: The Making of TV’s Saddest, Strangest Sitcom Finale

On this day in 1945, for the second time in so many days, Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived an atomic bomb

Astronomers report the most distant radio galaxy ever discovered

‘Can’t fight evil with evil’: life in Mexico’s most murderous town

The Mystery of the Ancient Volcano That May Have Inspired Atlantis

The murderer turned author who published clues to his crimes

Star-Swallowing Black Holes Reveal Secrets in Exotic Light Shows

Globus Pharyngeus Is That Bizarre Lump in Your Throat—Even if You’re Not Crying

How 2,000-year-old roads predict modern-day prosperity

Canary Girls: The World War One Women Who Turned Yellow

Historic Cat Photos on International Cat Day

Something Digs Intricate Tunnels in Garnets. Is It Alive?

Yellowstone Supervolcano Could Be an Energy Source. But Should It?

These Twenty-Somethings Got Heart Transplants on the Very Same Day. And then They Fell in Love.

Inside the Very Big, Very Controversial Business of Dog Cloning

War Without End

Altered images: New research shows that what we see is distorted by what we expect to see

Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the “terrible twos”

Video: When Birds Had Teeth