Life, Death, and PTSD as a Ranger in the Tetons

America’s Light Bulb Revolution

The Man with an Elephant’s Nose

‘It’s Kind of Crazy in a Developed Country’: Inside the Amputation Crisis in the Rio Grande Valley

Gamma ray telescopes could detect starships powered by black hole

Cloudy With a Chance of War

Galaxy Simulations Offer a New Solution to the Fermi Paradox

The girl who was never meant to survive

What is seafood fraud? Dangerous—and running rampant, report finds

The Clothes of the Future Were Supposed to Be Set on Fire

The Mad Science Plan to Power the World With Poop

The $200,000 Toy Heist That Tore the ‘Star Wars’ World Apart

Experts Think This ‘Nude Mona Lisa’ Could Have Been Drawn by Leonardo da Vinci

Mechanics of coronal mass ejections revealed

How three rebel queens of Egypt overthrew an empire and gave birth to a new kingdom

America’s school students exposed to water tainted by toxic lead

14-foot fish spotted in river, giving hope to vanished giant’s return

Nasa astronauts to carry out first all-female spacewalk

Massacre of Children in Peru Might Have Been a Sacrifice to Stop Bad Weather

Bad Dreams Are Good

The Bloody Baron’s Crazy, Mixed-Up Robbery

Why ‘ji32k7au4a83’ Is a Remarkably Common Password

Archeologists discover series of tunnels below famed Alcatraz prison

Alabama Tornado Devastation in Photos

What Not to Wear: The Deadliest Hats, Scarves, and Skirts in History

Looking for economic prosperity without growth

Mining the Moon

Animal with an anus that comes and goes could reveal how ours evolved

Israel’s first moon mission spacecraft sends back selfie

There’s an arms race going on in this bird nest. Scientists are uncovering how each side fights back

A Giant and Long-Contested Civil War Painting Returns to Its Former Glory

Ball lightning: weird, mysterious, perplexing, and deadly

NASA visualizes supersonic shockwaves in a new, awe-inspiring way

Quantum Monism Could Save the Soul of Physics

Can’t stand the rain? How wet weather affects human behaviour

Huawei: The story of a controversial company

How badly are we being ripped off on eyewear? Former industry execs tell all

The Tinder Swindler

How Scientists Made a Laser Beam That Can Pass Through White Paint

This spider slingshots itself at extreme speeds to catch prey

Crypto Exchange Says Its Founder Died With Clients’ $180 Million—But the Money Is Missing

Watch Hayabusa2’s incredible touchdown on asteroid Ryugu

Recycling Is Broken

Don’t look now: why you should be worried about machines reading your emotions

X-ray reveals hidden painting under Baroque masterpiece

‘Highways to Hope’: Read a Times reporter’s account of a road trip through racism in 1964

Scientists are getting creative to save this muppet-faced, flightless parrot

Murders in Miniature: An Interview with Abigail Goldman

Lunatic Express: The Train That Gave Birth to Kenya

The last great tree: a majestic relic of Canada’s vanishing rainforest

Scientists have welded glass and metal together using an ultrafast laser system

What Voyager 1 Learned at Jupiter 40 Years Ago

Hidden in an old chapel in Paris, the Grand Guignol was the home to on-stage horror, with grisly, lo-fi special effects

How Federal Disaster Money Favors The Rich

5 ways life would be better if it were always daylight saving time

“Mole” on InSight Mars Lander Begins Burrowing, But the Going Is Rough

Was this hypnotic health craze an elaborate hoax or a medical breakthrough?

A New Chapter in the Science of Psychedelic Microdosing

Pope Francis to open World War II-era Vatican archives to scrutiny

Humans Are Taking Up a Surprisingly Large Swath of Antarctica