Photos: Deadly Post-election Riots in Indonesia

The Tiny Fish That Break a Fundamental Rule of Vertebrate Life

Fifty children saved as international paedophile ring busted

The Bitter Life Of A Shattered Jockey: A Mostly True Story

The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich

Video filmed at four trillion frames per second captures light in a flash

Multiple former ice caps buried under Mars’s north polar ice

How Your Brain Perceives Magicians Cutting Their Assistants in Half

Inside The Lost Jehovah’s Witnesses Tunnels Under Brooklyn Heights

How Does a Chimpanzee Eat a Tortoise? By Smashing It Like a Coconut

“Once-In-A-Hundred Year” Sightings of Bamboo Blossoms Reported In Japan

How Archivists Saved Damaged WWII Film for ‘The Cold Blue’

A trail of toxicity: the US military bases making people sick

There’s Evidence on How to Raise Children, but Are Parents Listening?

It’s Getting Way Too Easy to Create Fake Videos of People’s Faces

What Keeps Hollywood’s Oldest Restaurant Running

The science of sex: what happens to our bodies when we’re aroused?

The curse of genius

Carefully, Japan Reconsiders the Trash Can

Can We Revive Empathy in Our Selfish World?

Curving the Universe

How Geometry, Data and Neighbors Predict Your Favorite Movies

The story of a migrant spy

Canadian scientists figure out how to preserve vaccines without refrigeration — a potential public-health game changer

Rogue ozone-destroying emissions traced to northeastern China

Last American slave ship is discovered in Alabama

Stunning Sonar Image Just Revealed Largest Underwater Volcano Eruption Ever Detected

The surprising truth about Caesar salad

The Loneliest Stars in the Galaxy

Gallery: The Small Bodies of the Solar System

The criminals who fool doctors

‘They Were Conned’: How Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers

Laugh tracks: The misunderstood glue holding sitcoms together

How Did Life Arrive on Land? A Billion-Year-Old Fungus May Hold Clues

This economics journal only publishes results that are no big deal

Experts Ranked the Most Dangerous Countries for Women. The U.S. Made the Top 10

We’ll soon know the exact air pollution from every power plant in the world. That’s huge.

This Weird Meteorite Crashed Through a Doghouse in Costa Rica. (The Dog’s Fine)

Why Are Two Stars in Our Galaxy Suddenly Acting Very Strange?

How the Voynich manuscript hit the headlines

Why Were Medieval Europeans So Obsessed With Long, Pointy Shoes?

Measles Had Been Eliminated. Now It’s Nearly a Daily Threat

Could Airships Really Revolutionize the U.S. Navy?

This is the world’s rarest form of gold. New clues are revealing why.

Scientists want to limit climate change by releasing more CO2

Huge double asteroid to pass safely May 25

Is modern life poisoning me? I took the tests to find out

A cadet died in a tragedy. Now his parents can use his sperm to create his child, a judge rules.

Scientists: Why we should appreciate wasps

New York Has a Supervillain Pulling Emergency Brakes and Destroying Subway Commutes

The Secret NYC Gallery that brought Picasso & the Avant-garde to America

Wild Observation Shows White Dwarf Stars Merging Into Something New

Rats Are Taking Over New York City

Meet the Guy Who Spends Months in the Antarctic Collecting Penguin Poop

Queen Victoria’s risqué side revealed with nude-filled collection

The Troubled History of Psychiatry

Who’s that girl? Queen Victoria as we’ve never seen her before

An exceedingly nifty WebGL fluid simulation

Scientists ‘paint’ Mona Lisa on a quantum canvas

For the First Time Ever, Researchers Identify Reddish Fur In 3-Million-Year-Old Fossil