Saturn’s Biggest Moon Titan May Bake Its Own Atmosphere

Britain’s Gatwick Airport Is Experimenting With Robot Valets to Park Cars

NASA made airliners safer by blowing one up in 1984

Spectacular Hubble Image Shows a Galaxy That Lost Its Spiral Arms

A landscape unseen in over 40,000 years

How Afghans Have Adapted to Life After Losing a Limb

NASA Has a New Plan to Revive the Mars Rover Opportunity, as Time Runs Short

Australia’s Heard Island: A mysterious land of fire and ice

British Aristocrat Accidentally Bought Stolen, 7th-Century Sculptures As ‘Garden Ornaments’

Study: People are strongly influenced by gossip even when it is explicitly untrustworthy

The pros and cons of placebo buttons

The Bulletproof Coffee Founder Has Spent $1 Million in His Quest to Live to 180

The business of kidnapping: inside the secret world of hostage negotiation

The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis

Geoscientists insist weather forecasting is more accurate than ever and could get even better

Apollo Astronauts May Have Found the Oldest-Known Earth Rock on the Moon

Drought turns part of Iran into a new dust bowl

20 years ago today a University of Texas physicist published a paper claiming to have invented a new kind of bomb from the element hafnium

Ghostly Galaxies Hint at Dark Matter Breakthrough

Grave of explorer Matthew Flinders unearthed near London station

When Modern Men Throw Ancient Weapons

Facebook knowingly duped game-playing kids and their parents out of money

Google Chrome changes could ‘destroy’ ad-blockers

Image: New Horizons’ Newest and Best-Yet View of Ultima Thule

How Gillette’s founder dreamed of a car-free, moneyless metropolis

Research: Gender Pay Gaps Shrink When Companies Are Required to Disclose Them

When Rare Diseases Aren’t So Rare

Two new studies show that gentle rocking can improve sleep and memory, even in adults

Scientists Are Teaching the Body to Accept New Organs

Cooking with FOIA: The Soviet Army’s 1948 borscht recipe

Is rain better than tap water for plants?

How Black Holes Nearly Ruined Time

The Largest Alien Planet of TRAPPIST-1 Has an Atmosphere That Evolved Over Eons

Does America Still Need the Nuclear Triad?

The European Space Agency wants to mine the moon for oxygen and water

Silent Mars Rover Opportunity Marks 15 Years on Red Planet in Bittersweet Anniversary

This Is What Happens When You Try to Sue Your Boss

Tiny-Headed, Ancient ‘Platypus’ with Stegosaurus Back Plates Unearthed

Forgotten man, forgotten disease—Aniru Conteh and the battle against Lassa fever

On training our own immune systems to attack cancer cells

Trapped in a hoax: survivors of conspiracy theories speak out

Deadly Ebola Virus Is Found in Liberian Bat, Researchers Say

NATO Fears That This Town Will Be the Epicenter of Conflict With Russia

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it

Why Scotland loves haggis

The endless hunt for the perfect flu vaccine

What’s Next for New Horizons?

Hitler book maps ‘Final Solution in Canada,’ Library and Archives Canada curator says

Gene Drives Work in Mice (if They’re Female)

Andes Grew to Towering Heights in Two Explosive ‘Growth Spurts’

Program allows ordinary digital camera to see round corners

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

A Collision With Another Planet May Have Seeded Earth With the Ingredients for Life

New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Were His Methods His Own Undoing?

The “Real” Warp Drive

How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR

Study supports physical activity as a preventive strategy against depression

3,000-Year-Old Tomb of King Tut Finally Restored