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A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books

Phones Track Everything but Their Role in Car Wrecks

Beetle Mania: The World’s Most Diverse Animal

Robots Are Fighting Robots in Russia’s War in Ukraine

Video: Timelapse of Voyager 1’s approach to Saturn (1980)

Why are moths attracted to lights? Science may finally have an answer

JWST images show off the swirling arms of 19 spiral galaxies

‘Let’s find out’: shipwreck mysteriously appears on Newfoundland coast

Sighting of newborn great white shark ‘unlike anything we had ever seen before’

Rise and shine: Japanese moon probe back to work after sun reaches its solar panels

Men accused of illegal media sharing hand over Bitcoins worth two billion euros

‘Obelisks’: Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System

New Discovery Brings Nearly Dead Plants Back to Life

Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure

Playing the Dozens: On the Joys and Functions of Sh*t Talk

Ex-US air force pilot claims he may have located lost Amelia Earhart plane

These Numbers Look Random but Aren’t, Mathematicians Prove

More (And More) Meat: How Doctors Treated Diabetes Before Insulin Therapy

The big idea: what if every little thing you do changes history?

New Types of Hidden Stars Seen for the First Time

The dawn of the clean hydrogen economy — visualized

This Dazzling Nebula Reveals A Glimpse of An Infant Universe Bursting With Stars

Cats of war: Ukraine enlists feline friends in fight against Russia

Dr Strangelove at 60: The mystery behind Kubrick’s Cold War masterpiece

Georgia’s stolen children: Twins sold at birth reunited by TikTok video

Growing Evidence Suggests a Trigger For Parkinson’s Disease Could Be A Common Gut Bug

This Planned NASA Telescope May Help Us Identify Worlds Like Our Own

Has great white shark newborn been caught on film for the first time?

Race against time to unlock secrets of Erebus shipwreck and doomed Arctic expedition

Physicists discover time can flow both ways in materials

Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes and Faults Near Lunar South Pole

Japanese lunar lander finds the sun, powers up

Why You’ve Never Been In A Plane Crash

Watch Revealing GoPro Footage Shot by Cyclist on Streets of Pyongyang, North Korea

‘Obelisks’: Entirely New Class of Life Has Been Found in The Human Digestive System

Japan: Moon lander Slim comes back to life and resumes mission

The Quest to Decode the Mandelbrot Set, Math’s Famed Fractal

NASA Juno spacecraft picks up hints of activity on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa

He Died in a Tragic Accident. Why Did the Internet Say He Was Murdered?

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Feynman’s Reversed Sprinkler Puzzle Solved

Around the World in Eighty Lies

What to expect from this year’s rare double brood of cicadas

‘I just went bent’: how Britain’s most corrupt cop ruined countless lives

Japan Lunar Lander’s First Pictures of the Moon

Hubble finds water-rich planet with a steamy atmosphere

Lions making fewer zebra kills due to ‘chain reaction’ involving invasive ants

Caffeine’s Dirty Little Secret

Gustav Klimt portrait found after almost 100 years

Investigating Brooklyn’s 156-Year-Old Secret Society for Black Women

Texas cold leaves alligators frozen underwater, but still alive. Here’s how

Physics-breaking ‘rogue’ objects spotted by James Webb telescope are emitting radio signals that scientists can’t explain

Off the charts: how a Polynesian canoe inspired a renaissance in traditional seafaring

Why do some people feel tired all the time?

The amazing helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity, will fly no more

A Reporter’s Journey Into How the U.S. Funded the Bomb

The puzzling case of a baby who wouldn’t stop crying—then began to slip away

Mottainai: In Japan, creativity is key to a no-waste ideal