The Junk Science Cops Use to Decide You’re Lying

Rare Color Photos from the German Front During World War I

Catastrophe drives evolution. But life resides in the pauses

‘Zombie’ Microbes Redefine Life’s Energy Limits

The Secret Life of Russia’s Remote Freedom Fighter

The Scramble to Pluck 24 Billion Cherries in Eight Weeks

The Secret SIMs Used By Criminals to Spoof Any Number

The millions being made from cardboard theft

Landmark transplant in 1960s Virginia performed with heart stolen from a Black man

Making Sense of ‘One of the Most Baffling Animals That Ever Lived’

The Robot Scientists Are Coming. But That’s Not a Bad Thing

The Coronavirus Is Bringing Back Florence’s Wine Windows

A Washington town isolated from the U.S. is now cut off from Canada, too

A tiny ‘nation’ in outback Australia

Powerhouses: nanotechnology turns bricks into batteries

What To Do, Scientifically, When Everyone Is Wrong

This is the way the universe ends: not with a whimper, but a bang

Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory

Mitochondria May Hold Keys to Anxiety and Mental Health

Metamorphosis, explained

The Most Overhyped Planet in the Galaxy

A TV reporter learned she had cancer after a viewer sent her a concerned email

Inside the mind of an animal

Android is now the world’s largest earthquake detection network

Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks to Get Software Updates

Highly efficient process makes seawater drinkable in 30 minutes

100 years ago today, Charles Ponzi’s infamous (and ultimately eponymous) scheme began to unravel

Losing Beirut: On Life in a Shattered City

The Return of Anonymous

Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean

A “Gravity Suit” Could Protect Astronauts From the Dangers of Weightlessness

Why Electric Cars Are Getting Louder

Roasted badger and raisin wine: historical cookbooks reveal surprising recipes

Discovering the Universe Through the World’s Largest Telescope

Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt, hides an underground ocean

Tune in to the Tummy: Vladimir Zworykin’s Radio Pill

Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer, Too

The nuclear mistakes that nearly caused World War Three

When did humans discover how to use fire?

Moonquakes and marsquakes: How we peer inside other worlds

Could We Force the Universe to Crash?

Lions are less likely to attack cattle with eyes painted on their backsides

The man who saved Kyoto from the atomic bomb

Image: The Origin of Elements

The Traumatic Loss of a Loved One Is Like Experiencing a Brain Injury

The Engine That Will Make Air Force One Hypersonic

Video: 11 Levels of Origami: Easy to Complex [16:11]

The shady history of a phone number used to set up a sham protest

How the Soviet Union Turned a Plague into Propaganda

New Class of Laser Beam Doesn’t Follow Normal Laws of Refraction

‘Most sophisticated tunnel in US history’ discovered between Mexico and Arizona

Antarctica is the last continent without COVID-19. Scientists want to keep it that way.

US government issues bear advice: friends don’t let friends get eaten

The Force of Nothingness Has Been Used to Manipulate Objects

Jupiter’s huge moon Ganymede may have the largest impact scar in the solar system

This rare, mutant honeybee is both male and female

Shallow Lightning and Mushy Hail: Violent Storms on Jupiter Are Weirder Than We Thought

You swine! German nudist chases wild boar that stole laptop

A Star Went Supernova in 1987. Where Is It Now?

Mars may not have been the warm, wet planet we thought it was