Unraveling the Mystery of a Mannequin From the Movie Mannequin, Now on Display at a Philadelphia Mall

Inch by inch: how Angola is clearing its killing fields

Fugitive on run for 17 years found living in cave by a drone

A strange new type of crystal is made of fluid tied into knots

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Our Skulls Are Out-Evolving Us

The Ticking Time-Bomb of WWII-era Shipwrecks

Gallery: The Former Soviet Union’s Surprisingly Gorgeous Subways

The Honeybee’s Most Fearsome Enemy

SpaceX Unveils Silvery Vision to Mars: ‘It’s Basically an I.C.B.M. That Lands’

On this day in 1957 a nuclear cooling tank at Russia’s Chelyabinsk-40 exploded

“Identity fusion” might explain why people act against their own interests

Image: The Engraved Hourglass Planetary Nebula

Mathematics as a Cultural Force

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RNA Vaccines Could Change Everything in the Fight Against Disease

There Are Parasitic Wasps, and Then There’s the Crypt-Keeper

A Soviet sailor’s 50-year-old message in a bottle makes it to Alaska

Nuclear Fusion Could Rescue the Planet From Climate Catastrophe

Hotel Mumbai: The stories of the real-life terror attack survivors

Into the great unknown: The Parker Solar Probe

OK, WTF Is Google’s ‘Quantum Supremacy’?

Deep Throat’s identity was a mystery for decades because no one believed this woman

Please Relax to This Video of an Octopus Changing Colors As It Naps

High-speed microscope illuminates biology at the speed of life

What If Planet Nine Is a Bowling Ball-Size Black Hole?

How Many Humans Could the Moon Support?

The Balloon Boy Hoax—Solved!

The Spycraft Revolution

Russia’s Circular Warships

This Terrible Mammoth Drawing Was a Giant Help to 19th-Century Naturalists

The Race to Name New Species

Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees.

Inside the massive effort to tackle one of America’s greatest rabies threats

When The Beatles met Muhammad Ali in Miami (1964)

France Banned This Common Food Additive the FDA Says Is Safe – Who Is Right?

Was Queen Mary, wife of George V, a kleptomaniac?

Study: Teenagers less likely to respond to mothers with controlling tone of voice

New frontier for science as astronomers detect gas molecules in comet from another star

Conundrum: Why People Do Not Listen to Evacuation Orders

All 59 people name-dropped in Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’: Where are they now?

Why Germany is a blank spot on Google’s Street View

The ‘Infortunate’ Dictionary Scam

Yes, there will be macaroni and cheese on Mars

The Intelligence of Plants

NASA is testing a shape-shifting robot that could explore Saturn’s moon Titan

Before the East India Company

Inside the most brutal dictatorship you’ve never heard of

Edison and Tesla’s cutthroat ‘Current War’ ushered in the electric age

We Should Deliberately Contaminate Mars With Our Microbes, Controversial Study Argues

A Murder in Berlin: The Untold Story of a Chechen ‘Jihadist’ Turned Secret Agent

NASA Wants to Send Nuclear Rockets to the Moon and Mars

What life might be like in alien oceans

The blockbuster that wasn’t: inside an alleged $14m scam to make the next Netflix hit

Murder in the Amazon heightens fears for isolated tribes

Found: Three Black Holes On Collision Course

Otherworldly worms with three sexes discovered in Mono Lake

Five years after 43 students disappeared in Mexico, their case remains a grim, unsolved mystery

Astrophysicists: gamma-ray jets exceed the speed of light