The revolutionary boat powered by the ocean

94-year-old ‘Rosie the Riveter’ once made warplanes and red bandannas. Now she makes face masks with the same cloth.

Hostage siege ends after Ukrainian president endorses Joaquin Phoenix film

Surprise discoveries in Mexico cave may double time of peopling of the Americas

Hair cell loss may explain hearing loss

The Racist History of Tipping

Thieves Are Emptying ATMs Using a New Form of Jackpotting

What Is It Like As You Approach The Edge Of The Universe?

First image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star

The Black Woman’s Forgotten Fight against the Laws that Banned her Hair

A documentary crew’s attempt to find a 100-year-old rocket

‘I was Saddam’s prisoner’

How U.S. vice presidents went from irrelevant to influential

Researchers say blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms

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One Challenge for Future Mars Explorers? Boredom.

What the mysterious boredom divide teaches us

The Limits of Restorative Justice in Jacksonville

Infographic: The dodo gets a makeover

Quadruple-stranded DNA seen in healthy human cells for the first time

Neuroscience is finding what propaganda has long known: nostalgia doesn’t need real memories – an imagined past works too

‘Knowing it could kill you isn’t a deterrent’: the deadly trade in diet pills

‘Poisoned arrow’ defeats antibiotic-resistant bacteria: A dual-mechanism antibiotic kills Gram-negative bacteria and avoids drug resistance

The Fear of Setting the Planet on Fire with a Nuclear Weapon

Monkeys poke each other’s noses, pull hair in odd rituals

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A Kindler, Gentler Sonic Boom

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A giant underground motion sensor in Germany tracks Earth’s wobbles

Cave’s Clues Show It’s More Than Just Oldest Outhouse in the Americas

Venice has been fighting floods for centuries. It’s losing

A Legendary Chicago Hotel and the Gilded Age Murder Trial That Embroiled a City

Why Bigfoot and the ‘Abominable Snowman’ Loom Large in the Human Imagination

Venus Is Erupting with Active Volcanoes, Scientists Find

A Forgotten Legacy: How Nuclear Reactors Built for War Transformed Peacetime Science

Blowing out candles is basically spitting on your friends’ cake. Will we ever do it again?

‘That Others May Live’: The Pararescue Units Preparing for War on Top of the World

Proteus becomes the world’s first manufactured non-cuttable material

Science Museum asks public to help identify mystery items

HMS Challenger: The voyage that birthed oceanography

Up she rises: how Brunel’s great hulk, SS Great Britain, finally came home

Why are humans so curious?

Basel: The birthplace of hallucinogenic science

Are there any black holes left over from the Big Bang?

Image: a map of the entire surface of asteroid Bennu

Four people have gone missing within a 60km radius in the past year. Their fate remains a mystery

The Troubling Tale of Baby Peggy, Hollywood’s First Child Star

Why Do Some Twins ‘Vanish’ in the Womb?

How NASA Sparked a Revolution in Microbiology

Study of Over 1 Million People Finds Intriguing Link Between Iron Levels And Lifespan

Writing With Synesthesia, Seeing Colors in Music

New measurement confirms the true age of the universe

How The U.S. Hid the Atomic Bomb

The long history of how Jesus came to resemble a white European

‘Jaws’ Is an Undisputed Masterpiece. So How Did It Produce One of the Worst Sequels Ever Made?

What Our First Close Look at Mars Actually Revealed

Hackers Tell the Story of the Twitter Attack From the Inside

Gallery: The Brazilian Desert That Turns Into a Thousand Lagoons

German police capture ‘Black Forest Rambo’ after six-day manhunt

Ecuadorian hummingbirds chirp ultrasonic songs of seduction