The Unexpected Music of a Coral Reef

A.I. Begins Ushering In an Age of Killer Robots

The Life and Untimely Death of a Boeing Whistleblower

The forgotten priest who predicted black holes

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Why Is Chile So Long?

‘New York weirdness’: why did a mysterious bell ring in a subway station for weeks?

Love and other negotiations in the time of the non-disclosure agreement.

Food Companies Intentionally Make Their Products Addictive — And It’s Making Us Sick

To Be Continued

Nanorobots kill cancer cells in mice

Mysterious Swirls on the Moon Could Be Explained by Underground Magma

How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago

Ants perform limb amputations on injured comrades to save their lives

Yes, you should be a little freaked out about Hurricane Beryl

Groundbreaking Discovery: How Zinc Could Change Farming Forever

On this day in 1881 a deranged man shot US President James Garfield

The evidence is mounting: Humans were responsible for the extinction of large mammals

How archives can make – or break – a philosopher’s reputation

An Arizona museum tells the stories of ancient animals through their fossilized poop

Fifty years on, how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution

How blockbuster obesity drugs create a full feeling — even before one bite of food

US builds world’s most accurate atomic clock ever to boost space science

He was acquitted in New Orleans in a ‘trial of the century’. For those closest to him, the pain lingers

Bionic leg restores natural walking speeds and steps: ‘I didn’t feel like my leg had been amputated’

17 Years, $700 Million Wasted: The Stunning Collapse of New York’s Traffic Moonshot

On this day in 1953 the strange and tormented movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.” first appeared in theaters

Reward for fugitive ‘Cryptoqueen’ raised to $5m

China claims 10 world records for new bridge/tunnel sea crossing

Napoleon’s Loot: When the World Decided Stolen Art Should Go Back

65 years ago today, a social psychologist gathered 3 men who all believed they were Jesus. And behold, it was not very good.

Tiktok is full of bad health “tricks”

The Stars Foretell Our Doom

End of an era as the final coal shipment delivered to Ratcliffe Power Station

Why do some people sneeze so loudly?

Chinese rocket static-fire test results in unintended launch and huge explosion

Microsoft AI CEO claims any content published online is “freeware” to help train AI

There’s an Extremely Stupid Reason NASA Scientists Can’t Study China’s Amazing New Moon Rocks

Mitsuye Endo and the Fight Against Japanese American Internment

On this day in 1940 the Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened briefly to the public

How powdered rock could help slow climate change

A desert moss that has the potential to grow on Mars

The telltale words that could identify generative AI text

Existing Telescopes Could Directly Observe ‘ExoEarths…’ with a Few Tweaks

Einstein and his peers were ‘irrationally resistant’ to black holes. This illustrated story explores why

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

Genetic analysis of ancient Mayan skeletons challenges virgin girl sacrifice trope

A Woman Thrifted This Ancient Maya Vase for $3.99—and Then Gave It Back to Mexico

An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

‘The Gay Cookbook’ Was of and Ahead of Its Time

The History of Migrant Mother, One of the Most Famous Photographs of All Time

Man suffers rare bee sting directly to the eyeball—it didn’t go well

A Prehistory of Zoom

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Theodore Roosevelt’s pocket watch was stolen in 1987. It’s finally back at his New York home

How to Keep Your Produce Fresh for Weeks (Hint: It’s Not Always in the Fridge)

The Holy Grail of physics: The quest to find quantum gravity

Four die after drinking from bottles found in sea

Fossil Hunting for Sea Creatures Beneath the Vineyards of Champagne

Axolotls, Known as Water Puppies, Spend Their Entire Life Submerged Underwater