Tube of Ancient Red Lipstick Unearthed in Iran

Are fears of saying ‘no’ overblown?

Egypt Halts Controversial Plans to Renovate Ancient Pyramid

Inside Scientists’ Life-Saving Prediction of the Iceland Eruption

Mind-reading devices are revealing the brain’s secrets

Scientists unveil groundbreaking method to clean the air with Earth’s heat

Famous ‘Lost Bird’ Found, Photographed For The First Time Ever In Africa

NASA’s New Horizons Discovered a Large Surprise in The Kuiper Belt

World’s Oldest Known Tartan Fabric Is Discovered in Scottish Bog

How newly discovered brain cells have made us rethink the human mind

New side channel attack can recreate fingerprints from the sounds made when swiping a touchscreen

Powerball: US man sues lottery after being told $340m win is error

What Are the Chances?

Video: Why a Tire Company Gives Out Food’s Most Famous Award [18:49]

Something very strange is happening to Italy’s underground volcanoes

The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind

Drumheller: Canada’s tiny town of huge monsters

Is Russia looking to put nukes in space? Doing so would undermine global stability and ignite an anti-satellite arms race

Video: Could you make an umbrella out of lasers? [3:05]

A Mysterious Wave-Like Structure in Our Galaxy Found to Be Slowly Slithering

Solar storms, ice cores and nuns’ teeth: the new science of history

The Thorny Ethics of Making Alien Planets Habitable

Her Son Vanished After a 1980 Run-In With Police. She Wants Answers.

Why Does the State Have a Monopoly on Money?

Go with your gut: the science and psychology behind our sense of intuition

Nebraska zoo extracts 70 coins from white alligator’s stomach

Dopamine’s Role in Movement Explored

Chinese researchers unveil lizard-like robot for Mars exploration

History’s crisis detectives: how we’re using maths and data to reveal why societies collapse – and clues about the future

Video: Inside A Warship’s Top Secret Mission To The Arctic Circle [44:50]

Underwater Photographer of the Year 2024 winners

Twinkle, twinkle: Scientists discover the smallest star ever observed

What Can You Do With a ‘Failed’ Postmodern Utopia?

The Quest for a DNA Data Drive

Gravastars are an Alternative Theory to Black Holes. Here’s What They’d Look Like

‘Dust is everywhere’: rare glimpse of how Michelangelo’s David is kept clean

Contact Lost With Spacecraft Carrying Experimental Quantum Drive

The decimal point is 150 years older than historians thought

Did the Year 2020 Change Us Forever?

Our ligaments and bones don’t grow the way we thought, new research finds

The Danger Lurking Just Below Ukraine’s Surface

Ancient Offerings Unearthed in Tuscany Reveal a Cultural Crossroads

Astronomers find monster black hole devouring a sun’s-worth of matter every day

Inside the Biggest Art Fraud in History

Long COVID Seems to Be a Brain Injury, Scientists Discover

Dark Matter Comes Into Focus With Groundbreaking Antarctic Research

Big, doomed satellite seen from space as it tumbles towards a fiery reentry on Feb. 21 (photos)

Why are shopping carts always broken?

Do some people have a better sense of direction?

NASA’s Solar Sail Is So Close to Harnessing Sunlight for Propulsion

Video: The bizarre patterns that emerge when you heat ANY fluid [11:49]

Physicists Discover Brand-New Isotopes of Heavy Rare-Earth Elements

80 years ago today a flight of plywood airplanes attacked a Nazi POW camp

Why some aging spies won’t walk out of U.S. prisons, long after the Cold War

Plastic industry knew recycling was a farce for decades yet deceived the public, report reveals

NASA engineers rally to save voyager 1, the icon of space exploration

The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception

The Taiwan Catastrophe: What America—and the World—Would Lose If China Took the Island

There’s One Last Place Planet 9 Could Be Hiding

DNA From Beethoven’s Hair Reveals Surprise Some 200 Years Later