This week: Tucked embryo, scratch castle, vibrating cancer cells, and more!

World’s whitest insect spurs energy-saving ceramic design

The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat

Gardi Sugdub: The Americas’ disappearing island

Shock of the old: 10 painful and poisonous beauty treatments

What a gorilla named Lia taught scientists about human facial expressions

After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

Scientists find the deep cause of long COVID fatigue

Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins

Consumer Reports finds ‘widespread’ presence of plastics in food

One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals

Video: The history of poker: Bluffing, betting, and busting [5:42]

Breakthrough discoveries of how the brain stores memories

10x Stronger Than Kevlar: Amorphous Silicon Carbide Could Revolutionize Material Science

What scientists get wrong about black holes

Brain breakthrough opens door to cure for panic attacks

Neptune and Uranus seen in true colours for first time

Wound healing affected by perception of time that’s passed

World’s first tunnel to a magma chamber could unleash unlimited energy

Beresheet: An eternal lunar library for aliens to discover

New study ties hearing aid use to longer life. But only if worn regularly

Transatlantic slavery continued for years after 1867, historian finds

This eye picture encourages surgeons to be less rude in theatre

Mysterious Section of the Great Wall of China Isn’t What We Thought, Study Reveals

Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity

We’ve Never Found Anything Like Our Solar System. Is It a Freak in Space?

Gigantic spider found in Australia, dubbed “Hercules,” is a record-setter

Modern Hurricanes Have a Surprise Ingredient [Microplastics]

What [some people] Don’t Know About Sperm

Guatemala’s baby brokers: how thousands of children were stolen for adoption

Con Watch: Artificial Intelligence Is Making Scams Worse

Japan earthquakes: the science behind the deadly tremors

A Very, Very Expensive Emoji

Soviet Style and Speed: Unconventional Racing and Concept Cars from the Soviet Union

Unearthing a Nuclear Scandal

Advances in Mind-Decoding Technologies Raise Hopes (and Worries)

Controversial “greatest construction project in the world” will offer a new way for travelers to experience ancient Maya sites

The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don’t Belong to Us

Ants produce life-saving antibiotics for treating infected wounds

Tom Scocca: ‘Unraveling My Medical Mystery’

What Are These Mysterious Dark ‘Spokes’ on Saturn’s Rings?

Australian fossils show photosynthesis evolved 1.75 billion years ago

Radiation therapy takes advantage of cancer’s poor DNA repair abilities – an oncologist and physicist explain how

Humans can tell by chickens’ calls if they are happy or frustrated, research finds

This Common Gas Transformed Venus From Habitable To Hellish

Video: Pay Up or Die: The Gangs Extorting a Nation [42:51]

What makes urine yellow? Scientists discover the enzyme responsible

Mystery Anglo-Saxon object found at Langham baffles experts

When Did Humans First Start Wearing Clothes?

Tetris Has Finally Been Beaten After 34 Years

Japan jet crash: Passengers describe chaos inside flight 516

Cerne Abbas Giant: Has the mystery of the chalk hill figure been solved?

Decades Ago a Huge Noise Roared in The Ocean. For Years It Was a Mystery.

Video: How Kim Jong Un Travels [9:49]

The Rocks that Drove Ice Ages: Solving a Greenhouse Gas Mystery

Psychologists Were Wrong About the Science of Self Control

The Rarest Fish on Earth Has an Unlikely Home—Nevada

Sodium’s high-pressure transformation can tell us about the interiors of stars, planets

Scientists Identified A Strange Connection Between Our Gut Microbes and Anxiety