A brief history of women’s fight to wear pants

Wasps are the first invertebrates seen to use a type of logic

A missing piece of Stonehenge has been returned to the site 60 years after it was taken

Where on Earth Is Sam Sayers?

Thousands of Americans are jailed before trial. A new report shows the lasting impact.

Taiwan passes laws to make Chinese spying punishable by death

Britain passes one week without coal power for first time since 1882

Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber?

Experimental device generates electricity from the coldness of the universe

The Mystery of the Millionaire Hermit

Image: Jupiter Marble from Juno

Gallery: The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms

On this day in 1931 a disagreement over advertising escalated into a shootout

Gallery: The Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles : A Book of 15th Century Sex Scenes (mildly NSFW)

She ordered an Uber. What she got was a stalker

A traveling classroom offers a third, fourth, and fifth chance to get a GED.

A Decades-Old Doctor’s Secret Leads to New Fertility-Fraud Law

First-Ever Video Shows Immune System Blowing Holes in Bacteria

Who’s Afraid of the Dark? Hype Versus Reality on the Dark Web

Ancient Rock Art in the Plains of India

Why We Need a New Black Box

How Egypt’s ancient city of divine cats was rediscovered

The deadly, life-giving and transient elements that make up group 15 of the periodic table

A war is brewing over lithium mining at the edge of Death Valley

Mongolian couple die of bubonic plague after eating marmot

Is Noise Pollution the Next Big Public-Health Crisis?

A revolution in time

The price of plenty: how beef changed America

How to Survive a Tsunami

How Chinese Spies Got the N.S.A.’s Hacking Tools, and Used Them for Attacks

Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, “The Black Swan”

Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream

How a Half-Inch Beetle Finds Fires 80 Miles Away

Sharing a plate of food leads to more successful negotiations

What It’s Like to Live in a California Ghost Town

Would the Government Deliberately Poison 10,000 Prohibition Violators?

Who Owns South Africa?

Universal Pattern Explains Why Materials Conduct

The biggest danger about an asteroid strike? Lawyers

Seafood Without The Sea: Will Lab-Grown Fish Hook Consumers?

Antimatter keeps with quantum theory. It’s both particle and wave

Photos: A replica of Al Capone’s famous “luxurious” prison cell at Eastern State Penitentiary

Ancient Chinese Buildings Are Held Together With Rice, Sugar, and Blood

Forget the Anthropocene: we’ve entered the synthetic age

Denver voters consider the next frontier in decriminalizing drugs: magic mushrooms

On this day in 1937 the Hindenburg went down in flames

The Mysterious True Story of the ‘Extremely Wicked’ Ted Bundy Movie

‘Almost every household has someone that has died from cancer’

Gravitational Waves Keep Rolling Past Earth

A tectonic plate may have peeled apart—and that could shrink the Atlantic Ocean

The Hand of Glory

Elephant Man’s ‘forgotten grave found’

CBD: a marijuana miracle or just another health fad?

The Codpiece and the Pox

Fishermen fight to survive on the world’s second largest lake

The Fight for the Right to Drive

More than a century ago, feminist hero Nellie Bly discovered the key to happiness

Beijing’s one-child policy is gone. But many Chinese are still reluctant to have more.

Video/gallery: Rendering of an approach to a black hole

Dr. Ruth’s Good-Sex Revolution