Scientists Find Brain Cells That Make Pain Hurt

Mini-Monsters with Multiple Heads Created in the Lab

The Cerebellum Is Your “Little Brain”—and It Does Some Pretty Big Things

Twins get some ‘mystifying’ results when they put 5 ancestry DNA kits to the test

What Life Is Like When Corn Is Off the Table

What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?

What Happened to Earth’s Ancient Craters? Scientists Seek Clues on the Moon’s Pocked Surface

Pamela Smart got four boys to kill her husband nearly 29 years ago. Now, they’re free. She isn’t.

Largest collection ever of breached data found

Saturn’s Rings Could Have Formed During the Dinosaur Age, New Analysis Suggests

Scientists Are Working on a Pill for Loneliness

Devastating quakes are priming the Himalaya for a mega-disaster

Walt Disney Used Nuclear Weapons Technology to Bring the Tiki Room to Life

Science history: the man who defined drunk driving

How Jesse James became a criminal

A Floating Glass Bead Could Help Physicists Probe the Unknown

Native American routes: the ancient trails hidden in Chicago’s grid system

It’s the drag that helps the humble hagfish slime predators so quickly

St Andrews find may be oldest surviving wall chart of periodic table

How Lichens Explain (And Re-Explain) The World

New quantum structures in super-chilled helium may mirror early days of universe

The Rise and Fall of the Living Fossil

Gene therapies could cure a number of illnesses, but often our immune systems get in the way

The devotion of the human dad separates us from other apes

Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps?

Stunning Animation of a Solar Flare Captures Its Life from Birth to Death

Watch These Stink Bugs Hatch in Unison

The secret travel club that’s been everywhere

‘Wet Sidewalk Effect’ Solves Mystery of Rain on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Video: Where is the edge of space?

Our Language Affects What We See

How black women were whitewashed by art

For Geoengineers, a Scientific Existential Crisis

The Pirate Radio Broadcaster Who Occupied Alcatraz and Terrified the FBI

What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?

The End of Economic Growth Is Inevitable. Let’s Plan for It.

Ultra ultrasound to revolutionise technology

The Ocean Is Hotter Than It’s Ever Been

Fukushima Residents Return Despite Radiation

What People Actually Say Before They Die: Insights into the little-studied realm of last words

When Fungi Fight Back

He appeared to lead a typical suburban life – but he was secretly involved in international espionage

How a Stroke Turned a 63-Year-Old Into a Rap Legend

Dangerous minds: the writers hounded by the FBI

Study: Alzheimer’s memory problems associated with greater leakage in brain’s blood vessels, regardless of abnormal proteins amyloid and tau

This Russian startup wants to put billboards in space. Astronomers aren’t impressed

A 4-Year-Old Trapped in a Teenager’s Body

Third Cat in Wyoming Diagnosed with Plague: Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Panic

Call to correct Gulliver’s Travels food estimates

One climber’s pursuit of an unclimbed peak

Europe unveils successor to the Large Hadron Collider

Potatoes Have a Form of ‘Depression,’ but Scientists Have an Idea to Cure Them

One Couple’s Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer

Insect collapse: ‘We are destroying our life support systems’

How fever helps combat disease has now been better understood

The Obsessive Quest of High Pointers

Physicists Built a Machine That Breaks the Normal Rules of Light

Hidden Beneath a Half Mile of Ice, Antarctic Lake Teems with Life

Unlocking a kingdom’s long-hidden treasures

How Alex Honnold made ‘the ultimate climb’—without a rope