How a Giant Squid Attack Became an Urban Legend

Experts Are Carefully Restoring a 15th-Century Masterpiece by Giovanni Bellini—and You Can Watch Them Work

Octopuses Don’t Need Eyes to Mate — Their Arms Do the Work

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France in the Year 2000, as Envisioned in 1899

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft’s window

These Pretty Light Cones Actually Represent Einstein’s Theory of Spacetime Relativity

Australia’s koalas are blighted with deadly chlamydia. One island could hold the key to their survival

Watch Artemis II launch in extreme slow motion

Searching For Steve Jobs

‘A wow moment’: ancient Romanian gold helmet returned in plea deal with theft suspects

Everest guides accused of poisoning foreign climbers to force fake rescues in $20m scam

IBM quantum processor achieves highest fidelity calculations for the longest period of time on record

Archaeologists discover wreck of Danish warship sunk by Nelson 225 years ago

Can Plants Count?

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To Finance Their Lifestyle, a Young French Couple Went to Cambodia to Steal Antiquities. They Did Almost Everything Wrong

Data Centres Are on Track to Wreck the Planet. Can We Stop Them?

Jane Ward Tost was a trailblazer in natural sciences – until history forgot her

Impacts from meteors may have helped start life on Earth by creating hydrothermal vents

How an Astronaut Almost Drowned While Floating in Space

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NASA: Artemis Real-time Orbit Website

LIGO data hints at supernovae so powerful they leave nothing behind

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A Woman Got Pregnant After Sex With Identical Twins. Now No One Can Figure Out Who the Dad Is.

Fungi May Have Their Own ‘Language’—and Scientists Think It’s Happening Right Beneath Our Feet

The Great Majority: Body Snatching and Burial Reform in 19th-Century Britain

They Thought Their Hearing Was Gone Forever—Until Doctors Tried Something Radical

Not if, but when: how Spain’s coastal towns are preparing for tsunamis

Artemis II’s toilet is a moon mission milestone

These astronomers are tracking Artemis II’s journey to the Moon, and they’re live-streaming for the whole world to see

The ’80s Submersible That Transformed Underwater Exploration

Scientists Discovered an Entire Island Made of Ancient Humans’ Leftover Food

Prosecutors used hip-hop lyrics to help sentence a man to death: ‘This only happens to rap music’

Global Physics Photowalk: 2025 winners revealed

Legendary Hermit’s Long-Lost Treasure Uncovered in Poland

Livestream: NASA’s Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast)

Unexplained sky flashes from the 1950s: Independent analysis supports their existence

Lunar prospectors: the businesses looking to mine the moon

Neanderthals survived on a knife’s edge for 350,000 years

Exploding head syndrome: the surprisingly common condition with a terrifying name

Barry Webb Documents a Marvelous, Macro Array of Colorful Slime Molds

The Man Who Put AI at the Centre of America’s War Machine

A Woman Walked Into an ER With Trouble Breathing. Then the Entire Hospital Started Collapsing.

Video: The Earth Keeps Making Mountains in Colorado and Scientists Don’t Know Why [8:44]

Gigantic Prehistoric Dragonfly-Like Insects May Not Owe Their Size to Oxygen: Study

NASA begins fueling rocket to launch astronauts on the first lunar trip in half a century

China bans storing cremated remains in empty ‘bone ash apartments’

‘My mom, the cult leader’: ‘She told us what to wear, when to pray, how we would have sex. We were prisoners’

Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon

Were Grandma and Grandpa Nazis?

Does red-light therapy work? Here’s what the science says

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The underground bankers who reshape the flow of global money

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The Young Avengers Who Fought the U.S. War Machine in Their Underwear

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