A Third of All Galaxy Clusters Have Gone Unnoticed Until Now

His Doughnuts Were Getting Really Popular. Then He Was Shot in the Face.

Read the Scientific American article the government deemed too dangerous to publish

Image: Tycho’s Supernova Remnant in X-ray

Overlooked No More: Karen Sparck Jones, Who Established the Basis for Search Engines

‘I met the man who murdered my identical twin’

Wonky Star Systems May Be Born That Way

Why Physicists Are Hunting the Strangest of the Ghost Particles

How a Career Criminal Broke the Convict Code and Saved Himself

Erupting Black Hole Shows Intriguing “Light Echoes”

Physicists are on the hunt for a “theory of life” that explains why life can exist

Big Rachel: the shipyard worker called in to stop the Partick Riots

Steam-propelled spacecraft prototype can theoretically explore celestial objects “forever”

How China could dominate science

German WW1 submarine emerges off French coast

‘Ku Klux Kiddies’: The KKK’s Little-Known Youth Movement

The bacteria in your gut may reveal your true age

Debussy’s Radical Search for Simplicity

Here’s the amazing footage of the Chang’e-4 landing on the far side of the Moon

Barnard’s Star Planet May Not Be Too Cold for Life After All

The plan to make artificial meteor showers

When Death was Women’s Business

Nerve cells from people with autism grow unusually big and fast

Why we should be watching the sun, not the clock

Giant pattern discovered in the clouds of planet Venus

How the right lighting could save the Mona Lisa

Alien theories understandable after mysterious signals, say scientists

Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers

Earth’s magnetic field is acting up and geologists don’t know why

Good News From Mars: The InSight Lander Is on Track to Start Collecting Data Next Month

Jayme Closs Found Alive in Wisconsin Months After Parents’ Deaths

Just When Space Feels Warm and Friendly, Politics Intervenes

Motown: The music that changed America

Maggots could be sent to Syria by UK to help clean wounds

China’s spacecraft just took a panoramic shot of the Moon’s far side

Easter Island statues: mystery behind their location revealed

Astronomers may have finally seen a star become a black hole

How an ancient cataclysm may have jump-started life on Earth

What Can One Nazi’s Act of Decency Teach Us about Good and Evil?

Signals from space: Five theories on what they are

I Grew Up Believing My Grandfather Was a War Hero. Army Records Said Otherwise.

This Huge Black Hole Is Spinning at Half the Speed of Light

Decapitated Skeletons, with Heads Between Their Legs, Unearthed in Roman Cemetery

How Silicon Valley is finally growing up (sort of)

Atmospheric Mystery on Saturn’s Largest Moon

All aboard the Flat Earth cruise – just don’t tell them about nautical navigation

How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa

Research Details How Junk Food Companies Influence China’s Nutrition Policy

The perils of short-termism: Civilisation’s greatest threat

Hallucinations and $100,000: the poker player who shut himself in a pitch-black room for weeks

New study suggests ancient stars form crystal cores

Ultrabright Quasar Lit Up the Early Universe

How a Phone Glitch Sparked a Teenage Riot

California man arrested for stealing roommate’s $10m lottery ticket

Dragonflies Embark on an Epic, Multi-Generational Migration Each Year

Less than a year after launch, TESS is already finding bizarre worlds

At San Diego’s Frozen Zoo, a chance for animal immortality

How radio astronomers will tune into the cosmic dawn from the far side of the Moon

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

A Wild ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission Idea Is Gaining Momentum