Photos: The Beauty of Earth From Orbit

NASA Might Put a Huge Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon

Can Science Survive the Death of the Universe?

The Chemical Origins of Life: What Is Life? And Will We Find It on Other Planets?

A Physicist and a YouTuber Made a $10,000 Bet Over the Laws of Physics

Mathematicians Prove 2D Version of Quantum Gravity Really Works

Ageing process is unstoppable, finds unprecedented study

How Blue Animals Color Themselves With Nanostructures

Is the Universe Open-Ended?

Inside the mind of a murderer: the power and limits of forensic psychiatry

These Brittle Stars Have Thousands of ‘Pig Snouts’ on Each Arm

Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska’s Soviet-Era Antennas

The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant

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When Graphs Are a Matter of Life and Death

Gallery: The Last Images From Doomed Space Probes

Antidepressants leaking into waterways could make crayfish bolder

Video: The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment [17:16]

Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked tongues

Image: A crater in the CO2 ice near the north pole of Mars (from NASA HiRISE)

The Mystery of Betelgeuse’s Weird Dimming Is Likely Solved

ALMA discovers earliest gigantic black hole storm

Decades After Mysteriously Drowning, Pecos Jane Has a Name

Aliens Wouldn’t Need Warp Drives to Take Over an Entire Galaxy, Simulation Suggests

Overtime in Vancouver: An oral history of the 2011 Stanley Cup riot

Victorian Science’s Great Unsolved Murder Mystery

Pacific islanders likely found Antarctica first: study

Bridge made of string: Peruvians weave 500-year-old Incan crossing back into place

Domestic cats fall for the same visual illusions as we do

How scientists are using cosmic radiation to peek inside the pyramids

How Solid-state Battery Technology Will Change the World

Soaking up the sun: Artificial photosynthesis promises clean, sustainable source of energy

A DNA-based storage system with files and metadata

Video: The Psychic Spot Disappearance [18:37]

Scientists publish the first 3D map of the heliosphere — the final boundary between our system and interstellar space

How a publicity stunt created an online social network in the 1980s

Scientists Discover a New Plant Organ

The Navy’s Railgun Is Finally Dead

Do You Have an Inner Voice? Science Can’t Agree If Everyone Does

What the Eruption of Mt. St. Helens Can Teach Us About Real-Time Disasters

Israeli Archaeologists Find Whole 1,000-year-old Egg – and Accidentally Break It

California’s drought may have helped solve the mystery of a 1965 plane crash

A Strangely Comforting Finding About Alien Rain

Video: The Day the Dinosaurs Died [12:01]

Why People Fall For Conspiracy Theories

Searching for City Lights on Other Planets

Study presents new species of bizarre, extinct lizard previously misidentified as a bird

Earth’s lopsided core? Strangeness in our planet’s interior

Most planets on tilted orbits pass over the poles of their suns

Mushballs and a Great Blue Spot: What Lies Beneath Jupiter’s Pretty Clouds

Don Huckstep thought he’d found love in his hometown of Fowler, Indiana. But when Teresa Jarding vanished, it foreshadowed a series of bizarre discoveries.

Ties Run Deep Between Disney and Space Exploration

Popcorn perfection? Study reveals the secrets to popping every kernel

A (Small) Pre-Emptive Strike Against the Doomsday Asteroid

Video: The sharks that hunt in forests [5:38]

Ancient poop analysis reveals extinct species of bacteria

Vast Strands In the Cosmic Web That Connects the Universe Are Spinning, Scientists Find

Magawa, the Explosives-Sniffing Rat Who Uncovered 71 Land Mines, Retires

NASA is returning to Venus to learn how it became a hot poisonous wasteland – and whether the planet was ever habitable in the past

Extraordinary new material shows zero heat expansion from 4 to 1,400 K