What Hallucinations Can Sometimes Be Like

Exciting new cancer drug kinder than chemotherapy

Why Do Dogs Wag Their Tails? Scientists Examine the Endearing Behavior

Theater of the Mind: How Radio Brought the World Into American Homes

A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days

Gory simulation reconstructs the violent clash between a monster black hole and a doomed star

Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

Is Kim Jong Un Preparing for War?

Flying Kites Deliver Container-Sized Power Generation

Water ice buried at Mars’ equator is over 2 miles thick

One man’s wild journey from prison and gangs to high finance

The Actual Louisiana Purchase Price

Skylab 4: 50 years since the first ‘mutiny’ aboard a spacecraft

Most Supplements Don’t Work. But That’s Not the Worst Part.

Meteorite Reveals The Young Moon’s Crust Held Far More Water Than We Ever Realized

Creative AIs Depend on Creative Humans

Cary Grant and Randolph Scott’s Hollywood Story: “Our Souls Did Touch”

Seabed trawling found to be a major source of global CO2 emissions

Punchline science: What we accidentally learned from a study on humor

Reviving the Classic American Burger

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The Whale Who Went AWOL

Ada Blackjack’s Secret Weapon

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A Hot Air Balloon Gave Us the First Aerial Map

Iceland battles a lava flow: Countries have built barriers and tried explosives in the past, but it’s hard to stop molten rock

Betavolt says its diamond nuclear battery can power devices for 50 years

The Immune System Helps with Digestion

He hit three monster bets — and then the sportsbook wouldn’t pay

Most STEM grads don’t work in STEM jobs

Search engine results are getting worse, research confirms

Meet Helios, a new class of space tug with some real muscle

Ground-fired lasers to be tested in fight against space junk

Engineers Finally Open OSIRIS-REx’s Sample Container

Cloned rhesus monkey lives to adulthood for first time

James Webb Telescope detects earliest known black hole — it’s really big for its age

Was the Big Bang a white hole?

Massive tectonic collision causing Himalayas to grow may also be splitting Tibet apart

Radio signal detected in an ancient star cluster

“Dirt-powered fuel cell” draws near-limitless energy from soil

Murder, drought and peyote: the deadly struggle for Mexico’s water

Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam

A huge battery has replaced Hawaii’s last coal plant

The tyranny of the algorithm: why every coffee shop looks the same

The Life and Times of William J. Flynn, the “Bulldog Detective”

4,000-year-old wall found around oasis in Saudi Arabia likely defended ‘against raids from nomads’

Do Astronauts Need Sunscreen in Space?

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After a trust fall left him paralyzed, climber scales 3,000-foot El Capitan using only his arms

‘World’s oldest dog’ has title suspended as claim is investigated

The Economists Who Found the Richest People of All Time

Ancient reptile’s fossilised skin is the oldest ever discovered

The ‘quiet’ jet from NASA that could usher in a new era of supersonic air travel

Yellowstone Coyote Named ‘Limpy’ Tries To Sucker Tourists For Snacks

‘Like a horror movie’: the deadly earthquake that changed California

A Black Hole Breakthrough Might Actually Solve the Information Paradox

How a forgotten physicist’s discovery broke the symmetry of the Universe

Archaeologists Just Found An Ancient Roman Bullet With Julius Caesar’s Name On It

Visualising the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

We’ve been ‘close’ to achieving fusion power for 50 years. When will it actually happen?