Ryugu asteroid sample rapidly colonized by terrestrial life despite strict contamination control

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Video: What NASA Unexpectedly Discovered When They Opened the Bennu Sample [22:56]

‘Impossible’ black holes discovered by the James Webb telescope may finally have an explanation

Video: The Physics That Doomed Amelia Earhart [36:35]

Vaccines have successfully been delivered via mosquito bite

On this day in 1987, a Max Headroom doppelgänger seized control of televisions in Chicago

From Chimpan-A to Chimpanzee, These Apes May Have Humanlike Culture

Hiker Steps into 280-Million-Year-Old Fossilized World in Italian Alps

Salmon return to lay eggs in historic habitat after largest dam removal project in US history

Uranus may not have a weird magnetic field after all

How Native Americans Guarded Their Societies Against Tyranny

Cops Searching for Vigilante Who Installed NSFW Traffic Signs in Colorado

US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome to Fix Search Monopoly

One of the world’s cruelest delicacies gets a guilt-free makeover

Discovery Alert: A Rare Glimpse of a Newborn Planet

Video: Hobbits Were Real. Why Were They So Small? [10:21]

Does this banana scare you? The harsh reality of life with an unusual phobia

NASA’s Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones

The ‘mad egghead’ who built a mouse utopia

Unprecedented image may reveal impending supernova that could be visible from Earth

All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.

It’s 100 years since we learned the Milky Way is not the only galaxy

The Final Days of Leo Tolstoy Captured in Rare Footage from 1910

This Chemistry Breakthrough Might Change Everything From Medicine to Farming

On this day in 1980, a fire at the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas became the deadliest disaster in Nevada history

The Periodic Table Just Got Wilder: Scientists Unveil the Secrets of the Heaviest Element Ever – Moscovium

The Milky Way represents an outlier among similar galaxies, universe survey data shows

Video: New Calculation Finds we are close to the Kessler Syndrome [7:33]

First Detailed Image of a Star Outside Our Galaxy Is Out of This World

Watch the first commercial supersonic test flight in over 20 years

The stuck tampon

Study: Why Aztec “death whistles” sound like human screams

Are Nonhallucinogenic Psychedelics a Pharmacy Oxymoron?

Mathematicians Solved a Notorious Old Problem, Shaking Up Abstract Algebra

The mysterious Virginia mansion allegedly bought with stolen Nigerian money

Are We Accidentally Building A Planetary Brain?

The Deep Sea

Study traces the spicy history of chili peppers

‘How a silly science prize changed my career’

Physicists Shed Light on Precise Shape of Single Photon

On this day in 1980, a shallow freshwater lake was accidentally converted to a deep saltwater lake

The dark energy pushing our universe apart may not be what it seems, scientists say

200 monkeys run riot in Thailand, forcing police to barricade their own station

‘Doomsday fish’ returns to Southern California shores for the third time this year

As revolutionary new weight-loss drugs turn consumers off ultraprocessed foods, the industry is on the hunt for new products

Woman accidentally discovers 280 million-year-old lost world while hiking in Italian Alps

A new nuclear arms race is beginning. It will be far more dangerous than the last one

What delusions can tell us about the cognitive nature of belief

How railroads inspired the creation of time zones

Being Interesting Is a Burden. Join the Dull Club.

The World Is Watching the U.S. Deal With Bird Flu, and It’s Scary

Skulls of Jigsaw Murders victims found in Edinburgh University archive

Germany suspects sabotage behind severed undersea cables

The best way to find planet nine might be hundreds of tiny telescopes

‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies?

Monitoring glacier velocity could help predict volcanic activity, a study of more than 210,000 glaciers suggests

What Is Exploding Head Syndrome?

How Magician David Copperfield Made the Statue of Liberty Disappear (1983)

The ISS has been leaking air for 5 years, and engineers still don’t know why