Researchers have identified the genetic roots of OCD, pointing the way towards new treatments

Turkey’s mysterious ‘portal to the underworld’

Why is Russia launching a new module to the space station if it’s pulling out?

Is reality a game of quantum mirrors? A new theory suggests it might be

Largest objects ever get cooled down to their ‘quantum limit’

How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above

Concrete: The material that’s ‘too vast to imagine’

Astronomers Find Two Black Holes Gulping City-Sized Neutron Stars

Photos: Rescue Efforts Continue at Collapsed Florida Building

Astronomers uncover evidence that there could be many more Earth-sized planets than previously thought

Invading Rats Were Finally Eradicated on 2 Galapagos Islands Thanks to Drone Partnership

What color is a mirror? It’s not a trick question

The Lost History of Britain’s Secret, Wildly Innovative Machine Built to Break Hitler’s Prize Codes

Finding the Hidden $10 Billion Fortune of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos

The FBI accused him of spying for China. It ruined his life.

No quick fix for Hubble Space Telescope’s computer glitch, NASA says

Sufferers of chronic pain have long been told it’s all in their head. We now know that’s wrong

Inside a vicious property battle on the Toronto Islands

Edible Cholera vaccine made of powdered rice proves safe in phase 1 human trials

On this day in 1905, Dr. Beaurieux attempted to converse with a freshly severed head

A new Van Gogh work discovered hidden in a book

Earth is trapping twice as much heat as it did in 2005

A Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Has Been Detected in The Human Brain

“Invisible” Gold – Scientists Discover “Fool’s Gold” Is Not So Foolish After All

IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity

Quantum Computing Stumped Einstein 100 Years Ago. Today, It’s Ready to Change the World.

Antarctic lake suddenly disappears

Scientists Have Found a Sneaky Way of Getting Kids to Eat More Vegetables

Hittite Rock Art Reveals Cosmological View of the Universe

The new wave of gravitational waves

China shares video and audio from its Mars rover

Giant ghostly ‘hand’ stretches through space in new X-ray views

The Italian Town That Built Its Own Sun

It Turns Out You Can Detect an Earthquake From a Balloon

‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war

NASA Scientists Find More Subsurface Lakes on Mars

Study that Impregnated Male Rats Stirs Controversy

No One Imagined Giant Lizard Nests Would Be This Weird

He Inherited A Devastating Disease. A CRISPR Gene-Editing Breakthrough Stopped It

Why do some animals have sperm 20 times the length of their bodies?

Even the Hubble Space Telescope’s backup computer is glitching now – raising new questions about what’s gone wrong

Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity

First ever DNA recovered from extinct miniature elephants of Sicily

The Internet Eats Up Less Energy Than You Might Think

Over 40,000 previously unknown viruses found in the human gut microbiome

Woman Who Shot Dead Her Abusive Stepfather-Turned-Husband Freed After Global Outcry

Read the Pentagon’s UFO Report to Congress

World’s first lab-grown-meat factory opens in Israel

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Spiders Covered Australian Shores With a Massive, Gossamer Blanket

Depression Will Be Cured By 2030 (And We Won’t Use Antidepressants)

What Did Stonehenge Sound Like?

Study finds dinosaurs lived and reproduced in the Arctic

Experience: ‘I swallowed one of my AirPods’

Has the Carbontech Revolution Begun?

Correctly identifying life on Mars will be more difficult than previously thought

New fossils reveal a strange-looking Neanderthal in Israel

Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enough to be rolled out

How physics breaks down in a black hole

The Sky Thief: Beebo Russell’s Last Flight