The New German Anti-Semitism

Can Touching Fentanyl Really Kill You?

Moondust Could Cloud Our Lunar Ambitions

The Politics of Humor

Having a Library or Cafe Down the Block Could Change Your Life

How Dodge City Became The Ultimate Wild West

The Palestinian Sperm Smugglers

Where The Algorithms Can’t Find You

The Curious Cons of the Man Who Wouldn’t Die

How the Danske Bank money-laundering scheme involving $230 billion unraveled [note: autoplay video]

Why This Fertility App’s First Scientific Study Is So Exciting

If The Universe Is a Simulation, Should You Care?

The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology

When Chernobyl Blew, They Dumped Boron and Sand into the Breach. What Would We Do Today?

The Physics of Mississippi Flood Control

Before plastic, rubber filled American homes

Giant dinosaurs may have tiptoed around like they were wearing high heels

A school’s mural removal: should kids be shielded from brutal US history?

Australian finds A$100,000 gold nugget using metal detector

Inside the Secret Dinners Where Congress Figures Out How to Stop a Nuclear Apocalypse

The way we define kilograms, metres and seconds changes today

Mini universes could be constantly exploding at every point in space

‘Earthworm Dilemma’ Has Climate Scientists Racing to Keep Up

‘I Make $1,000 a Week Writing Essays for Lazy Students’

The New Secession

Can you trust your earliest childhood memories?

Archaeologists find DNA in a 10,000-year-old piece of chewing gum

35 years ago today an iconic episode of Press Your Luck was taped

TWA Takes Flight Again, Without Leaving the Ground

UN chief warns nuclear waste could be leaking into the Pacific

Alex Jones’s Pepe the Frog Copyright Trial Will Help Decide Who Can Use Memes

‘Botanical Sexism’ Could Be Behind Your Seasonal Allergies

The universe may be a billion years younger than we thought.

Dark Secret: A 23-year murder mystery

Scientists create the loudest possible sound

The Fusion Reactor Next Door

Pasta strainers and pirates: how the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was born

‘Groundbreaking’ Sharp Images of Distant Planetary System Show 3 Planets Are Missing

On this day in 1927 a radium worker sued her employer

All 1,119 Pages of Leonardo Da Vinci’s “Codex Atlanticus” Now Available Online

This Is What Fish Oil Supplements Actually Do

How a sex scandal led to the nation’s first abortion law 200 years ago

A Waste of 1,000 Research Papers

Pangea has taken thousands to eviction court. The story of an apartment empire

Venezuela’s Collapse Is the Worst Outside of War in Decades, Economists Say

Vanilla fever

Psychiatry, Racism, and the Birth of ‘Sesame Street’

Manipulating atoms one at a time with an electron beam

Neutron star merger sprayed primeval Solar System with heavy elements

The Civilian Solution to Bank Robberies

A ‘Century Plant’ in Chicago Is Having an Epic Growth Spurt

The volcano that built Bermuda is unlike any other on Earth

A massive Gulf oil spill is finally being contained after more than 14 years

120 years ago today Nikola Tesla arrived in Colorado Springs to conduct wireless electricity experiments

This Chef Really, Really Wants You to Eat Iguanas

Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?

Revealed: air pollution may be damaging ‘every organ in the body’

Disneyland, dozens of cities could be flooded by dam failure from huge storm, engineers warn

Firms That Promised High-Tech Ransomware Solutions Almost Always Just Pay the Hackers

The Dark Side of Ultima Thule