America’s Oldest Board Game Teaches 19th-Century Geography

Turn Down the Streetlights

Economists Alarmed by Growing Demand for Sausage

‘A tech firm stole our voices – then cloned and sold them’

How a little-known 17th-century female scientist changed our understanding of insects

Betelgeuse’s Mysterious Dimming May Have a Simple Explanation

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

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Mining for Neutrinos and for Cosmic Answers

Einstein’s Other Theory of Everything

NASA’s Perseverance rover begins ambitious ascent up a Mars crater rim

British Man With a Metal Detector Stumbles Upon 52,000 Ancient Coins Worth $500K

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Egyptians Were Obsessed With the Sky. Ruins of a Massive Observatory Are Showing Just How Obsessed.

Vast ‘doughnut’ discovered in molten metal of Earth’s core

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NASA’s New Solar Sail Extends Its Booms and Sets Sail

Scientists Have a New Theory About Why Orcas Are Attacking Boats

Trove of Persian Gold Coins Discovered in Ancient Greek City

This 4-Year-Old Shattered a Bronze Age Jar. Now, He’ll Get to See How Experts Restored It

When A.I.’s Output Is a Threat to A.I. Itself

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Promising antibiotic candidates discovered in microbes deep in the Arctic Sea

Physicists recently created Coordinated Lunar Time, a time zone for our Moon.

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The secret inside One Million Checkboxes

Tiny new lasers fill a long-standing gap in the rainbow of visible-light colors, opening new applications

Another blow for dark matter as biggest hunt yet finds nothing

Marmoset Monkeys Use Unique Calls to Name Each Other

Here Are 64 Years of RadioShack Catalogs to Browse Online for Free

A prosthetic leg that feels like a real body part

Al Naslaa rock: Saudi Arabia’s enigmatic sandstone block that’s split perfectly down the middle

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2024

SETI searches for alien life in over 1,000 galaxies using unexplored radio frequencies

The Nuremberg Code isn’t just for prosecuting Nazis − its principles have shaped medical ethics to this day

The skyscraper window-washing robots are here

How Adam Pearson’s Acting Journey Led to ‘A Different Man’

The Information Entering Our Brains Dwarfs The Amount Coming Out — Why?

Video: We can now watch Grace Hopper’s famed 1982 lecture on YouTube [48:39 + 40:55]

Engineers develop all-in-one solution to catch and destroy ‘forever chemicals’

How One Japanese Company Has Survived For 1,400 Years

When Reality Came Undone

The startup teaching your computer how to smell

Photographer Captures Rare Double Moonbow

Our Bigger Brains Came With a Downside: Faster Aging

Video: How space changes an astronaut’s body [4:55]

Injectable pacemaker regulates heartbeat for 5 days then dissolves

‘In some cases, it was the women who were fiercest in the fight’: The female freedom fighters of the Haitian Revolution

NASA Discovers a Long-Sought Global Electric Field on Earth

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A Father’s Search for a Son Who Didn’t Want to Be Found

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Astronomers discover new ‘odd radio circle’ near the center of our galaxy

‘Biocomputers’ made of human brain cells now available on rent

Film suggests Nazis’ lead propagandist had role in 1939 massacre

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