The best science images of 2024 — Nature’s picks

Moon [Interactive]

US woman Hannah Kobayashi breaks silence after disappearance

36 blades of power: NASA plans SUV-sized Mars helicopter after Ingenuity loss

Oldest-Known Fossil of Creature That Seems Part Reptile, Part Mammal Found

Tortured by an earworm? How to get it out of your head

China’s otherworldly mountains that inspired Avatar

Earth from space: Antarctica’s ‘Deception Island’ is one of the only places on Earth where you can sail into an active volcano

The Hidden Story of J. P. Morgan’s Librarian

Video: Moment tornado strikes California parking lot [0:43]

If Humans Die Out, Octopuses Already Have the Chops to Build the Next Civilization, Scientist Claims

The Technology That Actually Runs Our World

25 enchanting images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice awards

Video: Exploring The Beauty of Shangri-La [49:22]

Humpback makes record 13,000km migration between Pacific and Indian oceans

Video: What Does An Electron Actually Look Like? [16:01]

Solar Eclipses on Demand: Proba-3’s Precision Satellites Enter Orbit

80 years later, Glenn Miller’s sudden disappearance remains unsolved

Video: How The Space Shuttle Worked [1:17:49]

Alarming: Common Herbicide Linked to Lasting Brain Damage

Could mouse sperm orbiting Earth be the future of humanity?

Will Even the Most Advanced Subs Have Nowhere to Hide?

Ferns Can Evolve Backwards, Challenging a Common Assumption on Life

The Mysterious Science Experiment That Could Answer Why We Exist

Video: Why the Soviet Union was obsessed with corn [21:33]

Autopsies Have A Long and Complicated History

Could deuterium be the key to finding aliens?

Video: Yes, Flights ARE Bumpier Now (And They’re Getting Worse) [7:11]

Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968)

Video: You’re Probably Wrong About Dinosaurs [20:16]

What we know about mysterious drones over New Jersey and other states

What can parasite eggs preserved in medieval poop tell us about human history?

Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals

Will artificial intelligence let us talk to the animals?

Video: Throwing a -346°F Snowball Made of Solid Nitrogen [8:01]

What Happened When British Women Voted in a General Election for the First Time

Vaults are found in the cells of many organisms, but what do they do?

Twirling body horror in gymnastics video exposes AI’s flaws

Marble Caves: Chile’s ethereal turquoise caverns with ‘mineral ice cream’ on the walls

Mysterious tablet with unknown language unearthed in [the country of] Georgia

When the future arrived, it felt… ordinary. What happened to the glamour of tomorrow?

Cracking a Stone Age ‘Cold Case’ Dating Back 5,000 Years

What Is Entropy? A Measure of Just How Little We Really Know.

‘Like they were demon possessed’: Geomagnetic super storms are causing tractors to dance from side to side across US farms

Perseverance Rover Escapes Its Giant Martian Crater. Here’s What Happens Next

Video: How Scientists Solved the Mystery of a 300-Year-Old Megaquake [13:30]

Tetanus vaccine delivered by skin cream instead of needle

Oldest human DNA reveals lost branch of the human family tree

When IBM Built a War Room for Executives

Video: The Unbelievable Story Behind Your Allergies [15:13]

Does Life Really Need Planets? Maybe Not

‘Enigmatic’ cave art was made by ice age children

One of world’s largest glacier floods triggered in Greenland

Humpback Whale Swims Up To Photographer for Incredible Close-Up Picture

Newly Described Fossil From Wyoming Sheds Light on When Frogs and Toads Lost Their Teeth

Mirror Bacteria Research Poses Significant Risks, Dozens of Scientists Warn

China’s hypersonic jet flies at blazing 6.5 times the speed of sound in tests

Spacecraft makes daring approach of metal object in Earth’s orbit

Scientists Discover New Deep-Sea Predator, Name It ‘Darkness’

Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners