Spacesuits for Spiders (And what they tell us about the difficulty of keeping people alive in space)

Martian Satellite Spots NASA’s InSight Lander From Space

A boy tried to kill himself by jumping from a highway bridge. He killed someone else instead.

The Viruses That Eavesdrop on Their Hosts

Two Stalagmites Found in Chinese Cave Are a ‘Holy Grail’ for Accurate Radiocarbon Dating

Narrower Skulls, Oblong Brains: How Neanderthal DNA Still Shapes Us

The Parker Solar Probe takes its first up-close look at the sun

Ebola-Fighting Protein Discovered

Gallery: Not for the faint-hearted: Gruesome medical illustrations from the 19th-century

ALMA’s high-resolution images of nearby protoplanetary disks

This insect’s ‘pee droplets’ accelerate faster than a cheetah

Exploding Stars Helped Kill Earth’s Ancient Sea Monsters, New Study Suggests

Dracula ants possess fastest known animal appendage: The snap-jaw

Susan Potter gave her body to science. Her cadaver became immortal.

He Helped Build an Artists’ Utopia. Now He Faces Trial for 36 Deaths There.

A Math Function Describes How Whole Societies Remember—and Forget

You may not even need a telescope to see Comet 46P/Wirtanen in the night sky this month

How the First World War gave medicine a new body of evidence

He was told his father walked out in 1961. Then he started digging up the basement

Mystery Blast Sank The USS San Diego in 1918. New Report Reveals What Happened

The Worst Fire Ever—Until the Next One

Meet the Safecracker of Last Resort

Scientists Virtually Reconstruct Magnificent Pre-Incan Temple

Art made by AI is selling for thousands – is it any good?

Forever prisoners: were a father and son wrongly ensnared by America’s war on terror?

Russian cosmonauts spend nearly eight hours cutting into their spacecraft

Antarctic Scientists Are About to Drill Into One of the Most Isolated Lakes on Earth

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