Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

Video: Remarkable Enhanced Footage of London During World War II [17:25]

The Cactus That Came Back from the Dead

Can slime molds remember?

Big fires demand a big response: How 1910’s Big Burn can help us think smarter about fighting wildfires and living with fire

Video: Hubble Observes Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Changing [2:20]

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What the Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Says About Us

The Supply-Chain Mystery

India’s misunderstood maharajahs

These Engineers Have Invented an Entirely New Approach to Recycling Plastic

She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Changed the Locks.

How to Bury an Entire Museum

Iceland elects Europe’s first female majority parliament

Chinese scientists complete starch synthesis from CO2, revolutionary for agricultural production and promoting carbon neutrality

NASA’s AR graphic novel is meant to recruit a new wave of astronauts

These Spikes Grew Right Out of a Dinosaur’s Ribs

Bitcoin mining company buys Pennsylvania power plant to meet electricity needs

Could whistling shed light on the origins of speech?

How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony

How would humans decompose on Mars?

Climate startup taps harsh Australian sun for scalable carbon capture

How firefly flashes illuminate the physics of complex systems

Hail-like “Mushballs” May Fall on All Our Giant Planets

The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’

A monk in 14th-century Italy wrote about the Americas

Engineers figured out how to cook 3D-printed chicken with lasers

Why beavers were parachuted into the Idaho wilderness 73 years ago

The epic adventures of the Gilgamesh Dream tablet

Amateur Metal Detectorist Finds Astonishing Gold Hoard Buried by Pre-Viking Chieftain

The Ancient People Who Burned Their Culture to the Ground

New cereal box-sized satellite to explore alien planets

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Astronomers discover enormous ‘cavity’ in the Milky Way being masked by a cosmic illusion

Carbon dioxide reactor makes Martian fuel

The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous

Canary Islands ‘miracle home’ stands alone against volcano’s lava flow

The One-Eyed African Queen Who Defeated the Roman Empire

Inside the World’s Most Exclusive (and Strange) Anti-Gravity Club

China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal

The Long-Lost Tale of an 18th-Century Tsunami, as Told by Trees

Ancient Footprints Suggest Humans Arrived In Americas During Ice Age

The pawpaw is finding champions again after colonizers’ dismissal

What vampire bats do for their closest friends

America’s songbirds are dropping dead, and scientists don’t know why

The torso in the Thames: A 20-year mystery

NASA ballistic air gun hurls rocks at space suits to test their micrometeorite protection

Scientists use AI to create drug regime for rare form of brain cancer in children

Knowing the content of one’s own mind might seem straightforward but in fact it’s much more like mindreading other people

Video: How decades of stopping forest fires made them worse [8:12]

Single Cells Evolve Large Multicellular Forms in Just Two Years

Why These Children Fell into Endless Sleep

Meet the Egyptian Scientists Studying ‘Ghosts’ of the Desert

Autopsies on Hold: Why We Need More Medical Examiners

Hubble telescope discovers 6 mysteriously dead, massive galaxies from early universe

Betty Reid Soskin, Oldest Ranger in National Park Service, Turns 100

Winged Microchip Is Smallest-Ever Human-Made Flying Structure

Here’s Why The Liquid Water On Mars’ Surface May Have Vanished

Croatian police solve mystery of woman with no memory found on rock

Here’s a Sneak Peek at the Far-Out Future of Space Travel