Winners of Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2021

William Shatner in tears after historic space flight: ‘I’m so filled with emotion’

Video: Why Hollywood loves this creepy bird call [8:00]

Humans enjoyed beer and blue cheese 2,700 years ago, study finds

The Story Of A Guy’s Dad’s Junkyard Airplane Abandoned At An Indian Airport Is Fascinating

Brain damage biomarkers detected in cosmonauts after long space jaunts

Drone Delivers Lungs to Transplant Recipient, a Medical First

Planet circling a burned-out star offers a glimpse at the solar system’s fate

Swarm of near-Earth comets linked to recent ice giant breakup

The ancient stepwells helping to curb India’s water crisis

Beam me up, Bezos: Star Trek’s Shatner becomes world’s oldest space traveler

Gallery: Wildlife photographer of the year 2021 winners

Blood, Lies, and a Drug Trials Lab Gone Bad

The Indigenous rebellion that inspired Peru’s independence

Physicists Capture The Most Precise Measurement Yet of a Neutron’s Lifespan

Clearing Up Some Myths About Victorian ‘Postmortem’ Photographs

Scientists are using every possible means to improve the systems that allow spacecraft to move about in space

Ruthie Tompson, an animator with the longest history at Disney, dies at 111

Drugs, arms, and terror: A high-profile defector on Kim’s North Korea

The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters

Elk with car tyre stuck around its neck for two years is free at last

Unsolved Murdaugh Murders Expose Years of South Carolina Mysteries

Dowries, illegal since 1961, still cause 20 deaths a day in India. But Babawayil has had no divorces or violence against women since it banned them

Hubert Germain, the last of France’s officially designated Heroes of the Resistance, has died aged 101

Video: How Stars Freeze [6:48]

What sea level rise will do to famous American sites, visualized

The Missing Teen Who Fueled ‘Cult Panic’ Over Dungeons

Massive Flying Laboratory Uncovers Secrets of How Marine Life Influences Cloud Formation

Strange radio waves emerge from the direction of the galactic center

Video: What Dinosaurs ACTUALLY Looked Like? [11:40]

James Webb’s 30 Days of Terror

Husband and Wife Accused in Espionage Case That Started with a Message: ‘This Is Not a Hoax’

Built on the bodies of slaves: how Africa was erased from the history of the modern world

2,050-year-old Roman tomb offers insights on ancient concrete resilience

Unexpected Radio Signals From Distant Stars Suggest Hidden Planets

What if the universe had no beginning?

In a rocky Israeli crater, scientists simulate life on Mars

The unearthing of Ireland’s mysterious naked sweathouses

Giant ‘mystery creature’ filmed by scientists exploring Red Sea shipwreck

X-59 QueSST: The quiet supersonic aeroplane that could revolutionise air travel

A History of the Data-Tracked User

Video: How NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Will Visit More Asteroids Than Any Other Spacecraft. [14:56]

‘Solved’: the mystery of the ‘slut’ scrawled on The Grapes of Wrath manuscript

Why Some People Think 2+2=5

Buried Secrets of Montauk’s Menacing Military Camp that Inspired “Stranger Things”

Purifying hydrogel tablet makes river water drinkable within an hour

Remains of Nazi V2, the first supersonic rocket, unearthed in South East England

This Asteroid May Be the Shard of a Dead Protoplanet—and Have More Metal Than All the Reserves on Earth

Video: Star Trek’s William Shatner on his plan to boldly go into space [01:51]

Inside Rikers: Dysfunction, Lawlessness and Detainees in Control

Space Debris Crashes Through Roof, Onto Woman’s Pillow

‘Waiting for a ghost’: the search for dark matter 1km under an Australian town

A Visual Introduction to the Dwarf Planets in our Solar System

What The Heck Was This Blue ‘Luminous Event’ Photographed From The Space Station?

Hubble snaps image of two galaxies that are merging to become one

BepiColombo’s first close-up pictures of Mercury’s surface hint at answers to the planet’s secrets

Epigenetics, the misunderstood science that could shed new light on ageing

Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge.

The Math of the Amazing Sandpile

Can migraines be untangled by new medical thinking?