Researchers Create First Ever Honey Bee Vaccine

The Unlikely New Generation of Unabomber Acolytes

John Lethbridge’s Diving Machine

In the Universe of Equations, Virtually All Are Prime

We Have Ways To Stop Rogue Scientists. They Don’t Always Work.

An ant colony has memories that its individual members don’t have

Physicists Create Incredible ‘Quark Soup’ Droplets That Expand Like Little Big Bangs

Apollo 8 Astronauts Reflect on Historic Moon Voyage 50 Years Later

How This Supercolony of 1.5 Million Penguins Stayed Hidden for Nearly 3,000 Years

Finding Alien Life May Require Giant Telescopes Built in Orbit

The Colossus of Rhodes, the bronze wonder of the ancient world

What’s eating this 400-year-old painting? A whole ecosystem of microbes

Chaos and the chocolate factory as leak smothers German street

It Could Be the Age of the Chicken, Geologically

The Recurring Dread of a Paralyzing Illness

NASA’s New Mars Lander Takes 1st Selfie, Scopes Out Workspace

Demon Underneath: John DeLorean and the invention of the future

The Grim Future of Urban Warfare

Technical tour-de-force traps positrons

The Psychological Challenges of Just Getting to Mars

What is behind the spread of a mysterious allergy to meat?

These spiders feed their leftovers to carnivorous plants

Super-solid helium state confirmed in beautiful experiment

The downing of CP Flight 21, one of the largest unsolved mass murders on Canadian soil, is a real-life whodunit

Forgotten statue kept in a margarine tub is 2,000-year-old treasure

Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret

Women were written out of science history – it’s time we put them back in

The Scary History of Therapeutic Showers

Watch a Russian Spacewalk That Aims to Solve a Space Station Mystery

The key to cracking long-dead languages?

A Murder Over a Monsanto Chemical

A NASA Probe Just Found Evidence of Water on a Distant Asteroid

We’re Finally Learning the Lesson of Y2K — and It’s Too Late

‘The Day I Set Myself On Fire’

‘Little Foot’ hominin emerges from stone after millions of years

On this day in 1996 a professor published a groundbreaking paper on evolvable hardware

Should We Be Worried About Computerized Facial Recognition?

Data analysis could help locate the missing Malaysian MH370 plane

Image: Saturn’s moons Dione and Rhea look like conjoined twins in this newly released image from Cassini

Why Victorians feared modern technology would make everyone blind

4,000-Year-Old Game Board Carved into the Earth Shows How Nomads Had Fun

Nearly half of women murdered in the past decade were killed by an intimate partner

Infectious Outbreaks Threaten the Last Asiatic Lions

Can We Really Inherit Trauma?

Scientists identify vast underground ecosystem containing billions of micro-organisms

A ‘Honking Big’ Cave in Canada Lures Geologists to Its Mouth

South America’s other ‘Easter Island’

Beavers return to Italy after more than 500 years

Russian ex-cop jailed for 56 more murders

Where is the boundary between your phone and your mind?

In 1982, a 10-year-old American wrote to the head of the U.S.S.R. He wrote back and she became our youngest diplomat.

It’s Official: Voyager 2 Has Entered Interstellar Space

50 years ago, Douglas Engelbart’s ‘Mother of All Demos’ changed personal technology forever

A satellite screw-up reaffirms Einstein’s theory of gravity

The Race to Understand Antarctica’s Most Terrifying Glacier

A startup is developing a 100-gigawatt laser to propel a probe to another star system. That may be powerful enough to ‘ignite an entire city.’

This map lets you hear what the world sounds like without humans

Researchers are ready to test pig skin transplants on humans for the first time

The Rise and Fall of the Women’s Restroom Lounge

How to Save the Web