The cognitive bias that tripped us up during the pandemic

Star Tours: Inside the Secret History of Disney’s Classic ‘Star Wars’ Ride

Almost 500-mile-long lightning bolt crossed three US states

On this day in 1920 Dr. Watson published the results of his infant-torturing experiment

Inside Trickbot, Russia’s Notorious Ransomware Gang

You’ve probably Never Heard of the Most Fascinating Woman of the Belle Epoque (NSFW)

‘I remember the feeling of insult’: when Britain imprisoned its wartime refugees

The Atmosphere of This Extreme Exoplanet Has an Intriguing Similarity to Earth

Video: The REAL Reason Putin is Preparing for War in Ukraine [22:00]

According to Geologists, We’re Living In a New Age

Scientists Figured Out How All-Female Termite Colonies Came to Exist

How the ancient Romans built roads to last thousands of years

Dresden: Inside the $128 million heist that shocked the world — and the police chase that followed

New intranasal influenza vaccine demonstrates excellent performance

On this day in 1953 the North Sea Flood inundated Britain and the Netherlands

Revolutionary Carbon-Based Magnetic Material Finally Synthesized After 70 Years

We Almost Forgot About the Moon Trees

This Stupendous Crater on Mars Looks Eerily Like a Tree Stump

Polar bears move into abandoned Arctic weather station – photo essay

On this day in 1962 a “laugher epidemic” broke out in Tanganyika

A Billion Years of Time Are Mysteriously Missing. Scientists Think They Know Why.

‘How we discovered a rare giant millipede fossil on a beach, and why it matters’

‘A spinal fluid leak derailed my life of travel and food, but taught me to find beauty in the small things’

This Extremely Toxic Lake Could Show Us How Life May Have Survived on Mars

Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken

Everything we see is a mash-up of the brain’s last 15 seconds of visual information

No more boosters? How an Army pan-coronavirus vaccine could wipe out COVID pandemics

Novel “artificial leaf” design ups the carbon capture rate by 100x

‘I’m really just high on life and beauty’: the woman who can see 100 million colours

Scientists Are Creating ‘Synthetic Dimensions’ to Probe Limits of 4D Reality

A Harvard Mathematician Has Basically Solved an Epic, 150-Year-Old Chess Problem

Is the Pilbara the oldest place on Earth?

Biologists name new species of branching worm after legendary King Ghidorah

Why we are living in an era of unnatural selection

The Oral History of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

What is a bomb cyclone? An atmospheric scientist explains

A Brief History Of Gasoline: Searching For The Magic Bullet

How the FAA went to war against 5G

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The European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has flown through the tail of a comet

How three-quarters of French Jews survived the Holocaust, despite the Vichy regime

F-35C fighter jet: Race is on to reach sunken US plane… before China

They Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration

The Confessions of a High-Functioning Psychopath

What if Quantum Computing Is a Bust?

He was sent to prison for murder. Then his identical twin confessed

Limb regeneration a reality: Scientists successfully regrow a frog’s lost leg

Methuselah: oldest aquarium fish lives in San Francisco and likes belly rubs

How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality

In 1999 Mysterious Finger-Like Features Were Spotted on the Sun – Now Scientists Have an Explanation

Nuclear fusion milestone creates “burning plasma” for the first time

The Sun Was Dimmer When Earth Formed. How Did Life Emerge?

The Kept and the Killed – rejected photos of the Great Depression

The hunting, riding, adventurous lives of Scythia’s warrior women, the real Amazons

The original drama of operating theatres

Video: Stealing Millions as Teenage Art Thieves [10:55]

500 million-year-old, bug-like fossils have stunningly preserved nervous systems

She was a notorious hacker in the ’80s — then she disappeared

Cult Classic ‘Fight Club’ Gets a Very Different Ending in China

Aging is Still One of Biology’s Greatest Mysteries