This rubber duck started a river race in Alberta and washed ashore in Russia

Simple Mathematical Law Predicts Movement in Cities around the World

Why SpaceX’s first all-private mission is a big deal

Highly criticized paper on dishonesty retracted

This Fossilized Skin Sample of an Iconic Dinosaur Has Revealed Jaw-Dropping Details

All Living Snakes Evolved From a Few Survivors of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

When the Nazis sent scientists to the Himalayas

Jupiter just got smacked by a space rock and an amateur astronomer caught it on camera

Mexico to give away ‘El Chapo’ safehouse in lottery

Video: Boeing’s Fatal Flaw (full documentary) [53:18]

Mars Sample Return: Bringing home a piece of another planet

56 Percent of Young People Think Humanity Is Doomed

Video: Earth’s mysterious red glow, explained [4:21]

Here’s what we know about Egypt’s New and Yet Unnamed Futuristic Capital City

Michelin’s airless passenger car tires get their first public outing

Human Gut Bacteria Could Be Accumulating Our Medications Without Us Realizing

Video: The Strange Orbit of Earth’s Second Moon (plus The Planets) [7:07]

Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside

On this day in 1979 two German families made a daring attempt to escape East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes

Bizarre pig-faced shark found dead in the Mediterranean Sea. Is it real?

Study finds astronaut blood mixed with Mars soil makes ultra-hard concrete

Triple entanglement in silicon marks major quantum computer breakthrough

The Journey to Define Dimension

Rerun of supernova blast expected to appear in 2037

How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity

Gallery: Winners of Nikon’s 2021 Photomicrography Competition

World’s Leading Geneticists Aim to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth

On the Politics of Death

The Polynesian ‘Prince’ Who Took 18th-Century England by Storm

Algebra: the maths working to solve the UK’s supply chain crisis

Snooping Around Manhattan’s Abandoned Art Deco Bank

Color Conundrum: Scientists’ Search for the Blackest Black

Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

Here’s what happens when two very different respiratory viruses infect the same cell

Why did the Maya civilization collapse?

Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo

How Do Retroreflectors Give You Super Vision at Night?

Video: Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 [1:28:25]

Video: Why Gluggle Jugs Are So Weird [8:46]

Escaped zebras bamboozle Maryland officials: ‘They’re just too fast’

Milkweed butterflies tear open caterpillars and drink them alive

Math Helps Cargo Ships See Into the Future

Artificial cells created that imitate basic functions of living cells

What 9/11 Was Like For The Only American That Watched It From Space

On this day in 1973 an ambitious 70s era cybernetic experiment was brought to an untimely end

Archived, synchronized video from various news stations as aired on September 11, 2001

Cockroaches, staged wrestling and more lies: the peculiar murder trial of Robert Durst

The history of boredom might surprise you

Machine writing is closer to literature’s history than you know

Spectacular valleys and cliffs hidden beneath the North Sea

‘Every message was copied to the police’: the inside story of the most daring surveillance sting in history

Physicists Glimpse Signs of ‘Triangle Singularity’ in Unexpected First

The Cowboy and the King: Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

Protoplanetary Disks Throw Out More Material Than Gets Turned Into Planets

Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende

Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy

Video: The super bizarre quantum eraser experiment [7:55]

Experience: ‘a stranger secretly lived in my home’

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