Maya ritual cave ‘untouched’ for 1,000 years stuns archaeologists

‘Elixir of Immortality’ Uncovered in 2,000-Year-Old Chinese Tomb

Tyrannosaurus Rex: The Once and Future King

The myth linking vaccines to autism gets debunked by the largest study to date on the subject

Why Smashing Asteroids to Save Earth Likely Won’t Work

How Did We Miss This? An Upper Atmospheric Discovery Named STEVE

Tilted Exoplanets May Explain Decade-Old Astronomical Mystery

Underground fire at Arkansas dump raises health concerns

Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files

Drug Companies and Doctors Battle Over the Future of Fecal Transplants

‘Do you ever think about me?’: the children sex tourists leave behind

There’s been a mysterious surge in $100 bills in circulation, possibly linked to global corruption

Our Culture of Contempt

How AI Will Rewire Us

India: Opium-addicted parrots ‘wreak havoc’ for farmers

‘Underwear dates well’: how fashion forensics are helping solve crimes

Study Finds Artists Become Famous through Their Friends, Not the Originality of Their Work

In search of the Brocken spectre on Burley Moor

Solar Wind Leaves ‘Sunburn’ Scars on the Moon

Giant Newfound ‘Medusa’ Virus Turns Amoebas to ‘Stone’

Gigantic Japanese detector prepares to catch neutrinos from supernovae

Why Does Time Fly When You’re Having Fun?

Regulating Sex Work in Medieval Europe

‘For Months, My Brother Was Being Attacked by an Undiagnosed Flesh-Eating Disease’

Science history: the misguided criminologist

The Origin of Amethysts May Leave You Tingly

The Kashmir conflict: How did it start?

Five advantages of being left-handed

Does our immune system hold the key to beating Alzheimer’s disease?

Could car design disappear in the autonomous future?

Houston, We Have a Dragon

The Absurd Structure of High School

When Did the Verb “To Be” Enter the English Language?

‘We didn’t sleep for 3 days’: How a network of women watched over Rahaf Mohammed’s escape to the West

Wiped out: America’s love of luxury toilet paper is destroying Canadian forests

Anarchy, Bitcoin, and Murder in Acapulco

America’s Cities Are Running on Software From the ’80s

Why This Man’s Blood Turned ‘Milky’ Colored

‘I’d get 400 toilet rolls at a time’: how it feels to win a lifetime supply

How a black man ‘outsmarted’ a neo-Nazi group — and became their new leader

Athens’ bizarre underground phenomenon

Explore the Underground Railroad’s ‘great central depot’

The Brain That Remade Itself

Brutal beetles kept world’s rarest fish from breeding—until now

One Twin Committed the Crime — but Which One? A New DNA Test Can Finger the Culprit

NASA Is Building A Space Station In A Weird Orbit. Here’s Why

The periodic table is 150 years old this week

Love After Life: Nobel-Winning Physicist Richard Feynman’s Extraordinary Letter to His Departed Wife

When the River Took John Squires

Susceptibility to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millennia

What to Expect When You Were Expecting in Early Modern England

Unsolved murder: Korean-American widow’s quest to find her husband’s killer takes strange turns

The ‘Golden Death’ Digests Worms From Inside Out

First evidence of planet-wide groundwater system on Mars

Pluto’s and Charon’s Craters Reveal a Solar System Deficit

Gallery: Big spiders eating small vertebrates

Here’s what happens when your body tissues turn to bone

This is your brain on bungee jumping: Cliff divers take the leap for science

Scientists can read the ‘rust’ on a person’s DNA to predict when they’ll die

The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality