Witness to Titan sub tragedy tells of fear and false hope

Fabricating Dreams: On How an Unknown Publisher in Edo Japan Enticed the World

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On this day in 1947 a Lancastrian airliner disappeared en route to Santiago, Chile

Robin Windross disappeared from a care center in 1977. His parents remain haunted by questions

Big dinosaur extinction saw rapid bird evolution

New research reveals why certain paper is more likely to cause cuts.

Saturn threw a comet out of the solar system at 6,700 mph. Here’s how

Scientists traced roses’ thorny origins and solved a 400 million-year-old mystery

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On this day in 1939 Einstein co-wrote a letter to president Roosevelt urging him to fund research into atomic weaponry

Hotels and restaurants are dropping prices after unexpected quietness in Paris during the Olympics

Secret Medieval Papal Residence Unearthed in Rome

New insights into Iceland’s recent bout of eruptions

“Screaming Woman” mummy may have died in agony 3,500 years ago, study finds

What happens when you don’t have enough ingredients to make a planet?

Want to spot a deepfake? The eyes could be a giveaway

He Was an FBI Informant—and Inspired a Generation of Violent Extremists

How “intelligent” liquid metals could decarbonise industries

At the 1960 Olympics, American Athletes Recruited by the CIA Tried to Convince Their Soviet Peers to Defect

What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images

The First Air Force One and One Man’s Quest to Save It

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“Cat poop” brain parasite could be hijacked to deliver drugs

Meteorites from Mars

New DNA analysis helps bust 200-year-old royal conspiracy theory

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Fully-automatic robot dentist performs world’s first human procedure

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‘One of the most disgusting meals I’ve ever eaten’: AI recipes tested

Four Friends, Two Marriages, One Affair — and a Shelf of Books Dissecting It

3,500-year-old tablet in Turkey turns out to be a shopping list

This humpback lost its tail — but swims on in Salish Sea

‘My jaw just dropped’: 500 million-year-old larva fossil found with brain preserved

When Milk Delivery Was Done by Dog-Drawn Carts: Vintage Photos from the Early 20th Century

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Never-before-seen shapes up to 1,300 feet long discovered beneath Antarctic ice

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What we learned by crashing Lunar Prospector into the Moon

Nanoscale ‘Russian doll’ tech delivers two drugs at different times

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Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story?

How to SUPPPPRESS Light From a Star That Is Ten Billion Times Brighter Than Its Habitable Exoplanet

Archaeologists Found a Cult’s Secret Temple Hidden Among Ancient Tombs

Watch Sierra Space Blow Up Its Inflatable Space Station In The Name Of Science

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NASA Retires Asteroid-Hunting Telescope

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That Time Arthur Conan Doyle Tried to Stump Harry Houdini with a Stop-Motion Dinosaur Film Clip

Silicon Valley’s Trillion-Dollar Leap of Faith

‘My ex was brutally murdered. Then his killer was hailed a national hero’

New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive

Parasites Are Everywhere. Why Do So Few Researchers Study Them?

Will the Higgs boson give us “new physics”?

The Wisdom of Fish Schools

The Confessions of Lieutenant Calley

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Scientists propose lunar biorepository to defy Earth-life extinction

How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event”?

On this day in 1761 a French ship crashed on a lost and hostile island. The survivors were remarkably resourceful.