The Origins of the Mug Shot

The Source of the Nile River: A Mystery That Spanned Three Millennia

Sophie Scholl: Student who resisted Hitler and inspires Germany

New study finds no link between teen tech use and mental health problems

This Odd Early Flying Machine Made History but Didn’t Have the Right Stuff

Meet The Man Who Escaped Slavery And Made A Fortune In The Old West—Again And Again

The Untold Story of How Jeff Bezos Beat the Tabloids

Do other animals get heart attacks?

Interactive: How the internal combustion engine works

Animals ‘rarely avoid’ mating with relatives, new study says

A Milwaukee Suburb Is Full of Ultrarare Fossils

The Colonial Pipeline Hack Is a New Extreme for Ransomware

NASA criticizes China’s handling of rocket re-entry as debris lands near Maldives

Gargantuanisation: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

Remains of nine Neanderthals found in cave south of Rome

Did this message in a bottle really come from the Titanic? Quebec researchers are trying to find out

Can Thucydides Teach Us Why We Go to War?

Minuscule drums push the limits of quantum weirdness

Chinese dreams on Native American land: A tale of cannabis boom and bust

On this day in 1963 scientists gave Earth a temporary ring using 480 million tiny copper needles

How Bowhead Whales Live for 200 Years

What’s the Point of Wasps, Anyway?

Fungus-like organisms in deep time and deep rock

How cities will fossilise

Can Plants Feel Pain?

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The Taxi Driver Who Took On Uber

When Will We Know Where the Chinese Rocket Will Crash?

Goodwill Doesn’t Want Your Broken Toaster

Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?

‘Spaghettified’ star wrapped around a black hole spotted for the first time

Coveted by Russian royalty, the jewel-studded Amber Room was stolen by Nazis during World War Two

‘A dirty business’: how one drug is turning Syria into a narco-state

Photos: Robots Are Everywhere

Sharks Use the Earth’s Magnetic Field Like a Compass

2,000-year-old marble head of Rome’s first emperor discovered

Homing in on the smallest possible laser

Why Isn’t Anyone Seriously Challenging The Big Bang?

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90 years ago today, a famous Kentucky colonel was involved in a shootout over an ad blocker

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Saturn’s fuzzy core spreads over more than half the planet’s diameter

No, NASA photos are not evidence of fungus growing on Mars, sorry

In December 1959, Popular Mechanics spent a week with the Mercury 7 astronauts and witnessed the beginning of U.S. human spaceflight

A Giant Sequoia Is Still Burning From Last Summer’s California Wildfires

Texting patients to get a flu shot increased vaccination rates — but some messages worked better than others

A Lot of Animals in the U.S. Are About to Be Uncomfortably Full

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Ruby Bridges: the six-year-old who defied a mob and desegregated her school

On this day in 1937 the Hindenburg burned

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Scientists Claim to Spot Fungus Growing on Mars in NASA Rover Photos

The Lithium Gold Rush: Inside the Race to Power Electric Vehicles

Dark Energy Experiment 16 Years in the Making Could Illuminate Origin, Evolution, Fate of Universe

Is there a pattern to the universe?

Persuading the Body to Regenerate Its Limbs

‘It’s like the embers in a barbecue pit.’ Nuclear reactions are smoldering again at Chernobyl

Uniting the mysterious worlds of quantum physics and music

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