Do Animals Commit Suicide?

The Five Big Ways the James Webb Telescope Will Help Astronomers Understand the Universe

Honey’s Eternal Shelf Life, Explained

‘Why Don’t Black Holes Swallow All of Space? This Explanation Is Blowing Our Minds’

How a volcano and flaming red sunsets led an amateur scientist in Hawaii to discover jet streams

Trove of Nazi Artifacts Found Stashed in Wall of German House

An immense mystery older than Stonehenge

Give Fungi the Respect They’re Due

Why Is It So Hard to Be Rational?

Interoception: the hidden sense that shapes wellbeing

‘Mind blowing’: Grizzly bear DNA maps onto Indigenous language families

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On this day in 1977, SETI detected the famous, still unexplained “Wow!” signal

Twists, turns, thrills and spills: the physics of rollercoasters

Photos: A Horrific Earthquake in Haiti

What Will Become of the ISS if Russia Abandons Plans?

The Rooms Where It Happened

Every rover, ranked by distance traveled on the moon and Mars

The secret language of cults

How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing

NASA Sends a 3D Printer for Lunar Regolith and More to the ISS

Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public

On this day in 1984, 37 people died when a lake exploded in Cameroon

Could Dark Energy Simply Be A Misinterpretation Of The Data?

Tackling the growing problem of overmedication

Russia’s space program just threw a NASA astronaut under the bus

He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?

A Madonna Who Shows the Beauty in Going Overboard

‘Saddam Hussein’s spies in London laid a trap – and sent my son Farzad to his death’

Beneath a country town, searching for the foundations of the universe

Why NASA is only a little worried about Bennu asteroid hitting Earth

49 million-year-old beetle looks like it was squashed yesterday

1897: The Great Sea Lion Escape From Glen Island on the Long Island Sound

‘Facebook is obstructing our work on disinformation. Other researchers could be next’

July 2021 Was Hottest Month in Recorded History

The Harvard Computers – The Forgotten Female Scientists Who Mapped Space

This Is Why Quantum Mechanics Isn’t Enough To Explain The Universe

Case of the mystery sea snakes: why are reptiles washing up on New Zealand’s shores?

50 years ago today psychologist Philip G. Zimbardo began a famous, problematic prison experiment

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Why King Khufu’s Solar Boat Is on the Move After 4,600 Years

Culture shock: how loss of animals’ shared knowledge threatens their survival

A Drug Addiction Risk Algorithm and Its Grim Toll on Chronic Pain Sufferers

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Why is it so difficult to prevent unnecessary medical procedures in the U.S. health-care system?

Overlooked Section of Hadrian’s Wall Discovered Beneath Busy Newcastle Street

This review for Damn Interesting on Apple Podcasts. Damn.

Why Perseverance’s First Mars Drilling Attempt Came Up Empty

Rocky Planet Found With Only Half the Mass of Venus

What the heck is a time crystal, and why are physicists obsessed with them?

Millionaires are calling for an emergency tax on billionaires

Two new dinosaur species, as big as a blue whale, discovered in China

Can Life Exist on a Rogue Planet?

The Teenage King’s Historically Bad Sex Education

Mysterious blood-red jellyfish may be rare species unknown to science, researchers say

Solar Power from Space? Caltech’s $100 Million Gambit

Bulletproof chainmail? Next-gen fabric stiffens on demand

Pores for thought: how sweat reveals our every secret, from what we’ve eaten to whether we’re on drugs

Unprecedented Study of a Single Woolly Mammoth Shows Where It Roamed From Birth to Death

Psychology has struggled for a century to make sense of the mind