100 Years Ago, a Quantum Experiment Explained Why We Don’t Fall through Our Chairs

Skyrmions – Tiny Magnetic Swirls – Used To Generate True Random Numbers

New company run by former NASA leader aims to build robotic outpost near the Moon

‘I Survived an Avalanche in 1984. It Took Me Decades to Pick Up the Pieces.’

Buffalo Soldiers and the Bicycle Corps

Astronomers Watch a Star Die and Then Explode as a Supernova

What Happened After the Chicken-Pox Vaccine?

Italian woman found dead seated at table in mummified state

Mountain-Sized Rock Hidden Underneath Japan Could Be a Magnet For Megaquakes

Huge Sponges Are Eating an Extinct Arctic Ecosystem

How to Want Less

110 years ago today workers in Manhattan discovered the remains of a curious pneumatic subway experiment

An Ancient Geometry Problem Falls to New Mathematical Techniques

The quantum ‘boomerang’ effect has been seen for the first time

The Oldest Pub in Britain Is Closing Its Doors After 1,229 Years

New study reveals how the color of your shirt could attract mosquitoes

Exposed documents reveal how the powerful clean up their digital past using a reputation laundering firm

Inside the Strange World of the Meteorite Trade

Huge Discovery of 18,000 ‘Notepads’ Documents Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

At Last: New Synthetic Tooth Enamel Is Harder and Stronger Than the Real Thing

Grace the 125-year-old turtle has outlasted bubonic plague, speeding cars, and ever-shrinking wetlands

Depression responds to transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment in studies

The Rise and Fall of Palcohol: The Boozy Powder That Terrified America

Researchers develop 3D human spinal cord implants for treating paralyzed patients

The Tsunami Could Kill Thousands. Can They Build An Escape?

A Second Generation of Planets can Form Around a Dying Star

The future of the pandemic is looking clearer as we learn more about infection

13,000 Years Ago, a Firestorm Covered 10% of Earth’s Surface, Triggering an Ice Age

An IT worker from California has cracked the “Dickens Code”

New Damn Interesting article/episode by Zoë Randolph: Hunting For Kobyla

Inside the German lab cloning pigs for human heart transplants

How Ernest Shackleton’s icy adventure was frozen in time

Breaking the ice: one man’s epic journey from Togo to Greenland

An astrophotographer spent 7 years photographing the Orion Constellation to create this zoomable 2.5 gigapixel image

House Prices Surge in Neighborhood Predicted to Be Swallowed by the Sea

The deep seafloor is filled with entire branches of life yet to be discovered

1922: the year that made modernism

When Europe was flooded by the oceans

Traders are selling themselves their own NFTs to drive up prices

Northern enclosure: Alaska’s one-house town, home to hundreds

Watch thousands of ‘vinegar eels’ swarm through a water droplet in amazing new video

Scientists discover lost range of ‘supermountains’ three times longer than the Himalayas

Chaos agent: A Soviet defector’s toxic relationship with Canada’s intelligence services

Brain size found to have decreased in domesticated cats

In 1889, a British newspaper asked women why they were ‘spinsters’

Red poets’ society: the secret history of the Stasi’s book club for spies

Earth’s water may have seeped up from its depths, as opposed to being delivered by impacts from outer space, according to a new study

How a City Close to the Ukraine-Russia Border Has Been Shaped by War

New forms of advertising raise questions about journalism integrity

New Antarctic Expedition Aims to Locate Endurance—Ernest Shackleton’s Lost Ship

In too deep: the epic, doomed journey of Europe’s first narco-submarine

The Falcon 9 may now be the safest rocket ever launched

The discovery of Egypt’s lost city

Scandal on a Wealthy Island: A Priest, a Murder and a Mystery

Secrets of Early Animal Evolution Revealed by Chromosome ‘Tectonics’

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Experience: ‘I survived a Nazi massacre’

Hot Air Balloon Launch Riot!

Astronomers Find First-Ever Rogue Black Hole Adrift in the Milky Way

Experts suggest US embassies were hit with high-power microwaves – here’s how the weapons work