The Attempted Assassination of Charlie Chaplin

Familiar scents can significantly aid individuals with depression in recalling specific autobiographical memories

A Man Has Died From Alaskapox. Here’s What We Know About the Virus

Why is free time still so elusive?

A ‘Very Rare’ Kind of Space Rock Fell in Germany—and Scientists Recovered the Pieces

The City of Tomorrow Will Run on Your Toilet Water

The Surprising Secrets of Ancient Egypt’s Sacred, Mummified Baboons

200 cats, 200 dogs, one lab: the secrets of the pet food industry

Researchers discover biological mechanism behind hearing loss caused by loud noises

What does dying feel like? A doctor explains what we know

Einstein’s predictions mean rare ‘gravitational lasers’ could exist throughout the universe, new paper claims

Explainer: what is Volt Typhoon and why is it the ‘defining threat of our generation’?

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power

Amazing New Photos of Saturn’s Moons Have to Be Seen to Be Believed

How Two Irish Businessmen Almost Took Nigeria for $11 Billion

Strange wall of stones found beneath Baltic Sea may have helped humans hunt reindeer

Earth Isn’t Flat, But New Theory Suggests Jupiter Might Once Have Been

The unsettling scourge of obituary spam

His Best Friend Was a Warthog. It Decided to Kill Him.

The First A.I.-Generated Art Dates Back to the 1970s

The Guy That Built His House in a Sports Stadium

Chernobyl’s mutant wolves appear to have developed resistance to cancer, study finds

Is Iceland entering a new volcanic era? Scientists think eruptions on the Reykjanes Peninsula could continue for decades or even centuries.

The Bird That Took a Human Mate

This Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt the Internet

Scientists are “blown away” to find a 1,700-year-old Roman chicken egg still has its yolk inside

The surreal life of a professional bridesmaid

Surprise Discovery Shows Blue Whales Have Been Mating With Another Species

Which came first: Black holes or galaxies?

A star’s extreme outburst could be tormenting baby planets

Before Ingenuity ever landed on Mars, scientists almost managed to kill it

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Scientists Slowed Down Light by 10,000 Times in an Experiment

World’s most dangerous plant ‘can cause suicidal thoughts’ after someone touches it

Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion

A tiny robot set to simulate remote-controlled surgery in space

How China Miscalculated Its Way to a Baby Bust

Scientists have identified an immune cell that can cause allergies

Stunning Juno flyby image shows Io lit up by “Jupitershine”

How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case

Fossilized frog with belly full of eggs unearthed in China is oldest of its kind

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Voice Pitch Influences Social Perceptions Globally

Generating Electricity…and Uncertainty

Photographer Endures Icy Temperatures to Photograph Beautiful Arctic Animals

Building robots for “Zero Mass” space exploration

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The ‘Into the Wild’ Bus Was a Pilgrimage Site in the Wilderness. Can It Hold Up in a Museum?

How changing the metaphors we use can change the way we think

Lava bleeds from Iceland volcano into the frozen landscape in incredible satellite image

A Black Hole Has Cleared Out Its Neighbourhood

‘Like going to the moon’: The world’s most terrifying ocean crossing

Bronze Age ‘treasure’ was crafted with extraterrestrial metal

Researchers fuse materials to make mysterious particle theorized in 1937

Could Forests Become Ultrahigh Energy Neutrino Detectors?

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The Hidden Butterfly Trade: How the lucrative market could spark conservation

Math, like quantum physics, has observer problems

Asbestos: The strange past of the ‘magic mineral’

Getting vaccines in different arms improves effectiveness, study finds