How the Microscope Redefined the Fact

Ontario man missing 30 years suddenly remembers own identity

Study: Unconscious sighing every 5 minutes or so is necessary for survival.

Video: Physicists at LIGO have detected gravitational waves, proving General Relativity

Study: How competition increases cheating in sports, wealth, etc.

The mystery that spans every feline, from tabby house cats to Siberian tigers.

The boiling-acid-water extremophiles of Kamchatka

NASA releases more of its excellent “space tourism” artwork

Flies reared in the dark for 60 years give up their genetic secrets

Photo: A newly formed star illuminating reflection nebula IC 2631

Researchers Just Discovered Hundreds of Galaxies Hidden Behind the Milky Way

Bacteria ‘see’ like tiny eyeballs

Study: Sleep deprivation linked to false confessions

Stealing White: How a corporate spy swiped plans for DuPont’s billion-dollar color formula

The Lives and Lies of a Professional Impostor

The FBI and the Internet can’t crack this dead man’s code

Taser shock disrupts brain function, has implications for police interrogations

Indian man could be first recorded human fatality due to a meteorite

Trauma prompts the brain to focus on survival, not ‘peripheral details’

Trees, regardless of diameter, tend to break when wind speeds reach about 42 m/s (94 mph)

Documentary: Attempting to excavate a preserved WW1 underground complex.

The shortest physically meaningful length of time may be several orders of magnitude longer than the Planck time

Three-parent babies may get US go-ahead, but only for sons

Digging Out: The story of a man who survived an avalanche that killed 7 of his classmates.

In 2018 NASA’s Near-Earth Asteroid Scout will use a solar sail to visit nearby 1991 VG.

Biogenic carbon in 4.1 billion-year-old zircon suggests life began ∼300 million years earlier than thought. (PDF)

The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever

The Walter White of Wichita

The Devil at 37,000 Feet

Snowed in at NASA, Keeping Watch Over a Space Colossus

China releases more true-color HD photos of the moon from the Yutu rover.

Dutch police train raptors to attack robots.

Steamboat Arabia sunk in the Missouri River in 1865; found beneath a Kansas field in 1989.

Inside the Eye: Nature’s Most Exquisite Creation

Terror birds: The prehistoric apex predators of South America for 60 million years.

How the Smithsonian is restoring the original USS Enterprise to full 1967 glory

A dictionary of the extinct language of ancient Mesopotamia has been completed after 90 years of work.

Photo: The moon’s surface in true color and high resolution via China’s Yutu Rover

Stalin ‘used secret laboratory to analyse Mao’s excrement’

Genetic study provides first-ever insight into biological origin of schizophrenia

On This Spot: Modern photos compared to famous historical photos of the same locations.

Gas cloud could form 2 million new stars when it collides with our galaxy in ~30 mil years.

Babylonians used geometry on cuneiform tablets to track Jupiter 1400 years before Europeans

Six months before the Challenger disaster an engineer notified his management of the flaw

Essay: Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle, by Richard Feynman (6 months after the Challenger disaster)

Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on the International Space Station

Why submarines are demagnetized

NASA to hold al Day of Remembrance today, the Challenger disaster’s 30th anniversary.

Google achieves AI ‘breakthrough’ by beating Go champion

Astronomers find largest known solar system, includes planet with almost 1 million year orbit

New York Public Library has digitized 18,000 historical menus dating from 1851 to 2008

Morning of 25 June 2022: All 7 other planets + Pluto, Vesta, and Luna will be in the sky at once (via /u/graaahh)

49 years ago today astronauts Grissom, White, and Chaffee died in the Apollo 1 accident. Sic itur ad astra.

Video+Text: “What you’re looking at is the largest welding system in the world”

The Wreck of Amtrak 188: What caused the worst American rail disaster in decades?

Study: Breathing oxygen may significantly increase the risk of lung cancer

Frequency of Small Asteroid Impacts, Provides Clues on Larger Asteroid Population

Black Death bubonic plague strain kept killing Europeans for centuries

Physicists Successfully Tie the Very First Quantum Knots

Researchers have developed an extremely effective “sarcasm detector”