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The Da Vinci mystery: why is his $450m masterpiece really being kept under wraps?

When Pop-Up Books Taught Popular Science

How the ‘blues’ of polar heroes throws light on Sad syndrome

Sprayable antennas turn surfaces into ultra-thin, transparent transmitters

Study: Most of the Arctic’s permanent ice is gone

Elaborate and ‘exceptionally well-preserved’ ancient Roman shrine uncovered by Pompeii excavators

Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future

Hubble’s Hardware Woes and the Painful Era of Aging Spacecraft

The least-gifted children of high-income parents graduate from college at higher rates than the most-gifted children of low-income parents

Fifth-century child’s skeleton shows evidence of “vampire burial”

Essays reveal Stephen Hawking predicted race of ‘superhumans’

Lab-Grown Human Retinas Illuminate How Eyes Develop Color Vision

This Is The Real Reason We Haven’t Directly Detected Dark Matter

Thinking outside the box: Adults with ADHD not constrained in creativity

Decades After Taking Henrietta Lacks’s Cells Without Consent, Johns Hopkins Names Building After Her

Researchers identify a “looming eyes” optical illusion that frightens birds away from airports

At 10 trillion frames per second, this camera captures light in slow motion

‘Lifeboats’ Amid the World’s Wildfires

The Never-Ending Drought Story

Why is it fun to be frightened?

Surgery in Space: Medicine’s Final Frontier

Rocket launches to be grounded while mid-air failure is investigated

The Case of Jane Doe Ponytail

Robotic bees could pollinate plants in case of insect apocalypse

The last lighthouse keeper of Capri

Ancient rock carvings in India hint at a 12,000-year-old lost civilisation

Opportunity Rover Still Silent on Mars, 4 Months After Epic Dust Storm Began

Hidden Secrets of Pulsars Revealed by Trippy Computer Simulations

Africa’s ‘youngest’ billionaire kidnapped in Tanzania

See ancient Egypt’s stunning, lifelike mummy portraits

How five anomalous events at two neutrino experiments provide evidence for supersymmetry

Stunning snail found in dinosaur-era amber

New Mars rover gets high-tech paint job for harsh conditions on Mars

Psychologists’ face off reveals humans can recognise 5,000 people

Same-Sex Mice Parents Give Birth to Healthy Brood

Stephen Hawking’s final scientific paper released

The Great Rikers Island Art Heist

Photos From the Aftermath of Hurricane Michael

The Maya Kept Jaguar Zoos For Centuries

Serial killers of Ecatepec confess to eating the remains of their victims

Cryptocurrencies Just Plummeted $13 Billion in Value Over the Course of a Few Hours

The Fight to Save the Last Swimming Camels on Earth

Child marriage in the U.S. is surprisingly prevalent. Now states are passing laws to make it harder

Mysterious Deep-Space Flashes: 19 More ‘Fast Radio Bursts’ Found

The Raid on Bermuda That Saved the American Revolution

Famous Experiment Dooms Alternative to Quantum Weirdness

So Can We Terraform Mars or Not?

Ballistic Reentry: How Astronauts Survive a Failed Launch

The Love Story that Upended the Texas Prison System

Video: Sunshine and stadium effect inside the eye of Michael

How will 9 billion or 10 billion people eat without destroying the environment?

Soyuz Rocket Launch Failure Forces Emergency Landing for US-Russian Space Station Crew

Interstellar Visitor Found to Be Unlike a Comet or an Asteroid

Bad News for People Who Can’t Remember Names

Small-Town Injustice: The Aftermath of a Police Officer’s Murder Conviction in Rocky Ford

How Hurricane Michael Became a ‘Worst-Case Scenario’

The All-Women Team of Scientists That Trekked to the Heart of Kilauea Volcano’s Eruption

Astronomers Wonder: Can Moons Have Moons?

How a fraudster got $12 million out of a Canadian university: They just asked for it