Biologists are discovering the true nature of cells—and learning to build their own

Astronomers Make Discovery of a Lifetime: Extremely Unusual Star – “Nobody Has Seen One Before!”

How Does Perspective Work in Pictures?

The power to create convincing deepfake icons could destabilize society

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In 1945, a father and his young son set out across the Bering Strait, fleeing Soviet Russia for a better life in America. Neither knew how perilous their journey would become.

The Rise and Fall of the Riskiest Asteroid in a Decade

Endless Exile: The Tangled Politics Keeping a Uyghur Man in Limbo

The Ukrainian Exodus at the Polish Border

How Mathematicians Make Sense of Chaos

The new malaria vaccine might not be perfect, but it will save countless lives

Porsche-Carrying Cargo Ship Felicity Ace Has Sunk in the Atlantic

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How Will Humans Change in the Next 10,000 Years?

Stonehenge may have been a giant calendar and now we know how it works

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Russia’s Looming Economic Collapse

An ancient language has defied decryption for 100 years. Can AI crack the code?

The History of Ice Cream, One of the World’s Oldest Desserts

Battery-electric “Infinity Train” will charge itself using gravity

Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn

Landmark trial compares LSD and psilocybin trips, finds few differences

New Jersey Couple Finds Pearl Worth Thousands During Dinner At The Lobster House In Cape May

What a Russian soldier’s panicked text home reveals about Ukraine’s information war

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No, bad leftovers didn’t cause teen’s life-threatening infection, amputations

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An Ancient Croc Stepped in Poop and Created a Portal to the Past

Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy

How China built a one-of-a-kind cyber-espionage behemoth to last

Why chocolate is really, really bad for dogs

Italy’s rare, surprisingly bitter honey

What are thermobaric weapons and how do they work?

The Radical Woman Behind “Goodnight Moon”

Origin of the 30,000-year-old Venus of Willendorf discovered

Damn.

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Johns Hopkins curators examine musical mystery linked to Edgar Allan Poe

Nostalgia relieves pain: Just looking at old photos can cure common aches, study shows

Belarus Issues Dire World War III Warning as It Gets Ready to Send Troops to Ukraine

Are Polar Bears Altruistic or Just Bad At Math?

In New Experiment, Astronomers See No Sign of ‘Cosmic Dawn’

Is it time to stop talking about ‘nature versus nurture’?

Dying for makeup: Lead cosmetics poisoned 18th-century European socialites in search of whiter skin

Should we kill every mosquito on Earth?

Dunwich: The British town lost to the sea

On this day in 1943 a team of Norwegian commandos sabotaged the Nazi effort to build an A-bomb

World’s largest plane destroyed in Ukraine

‘Almost intact’ shrine found in Jordanian desert is 9,000 years old

New article/episode: Robert Rogers, a man obsessed with trespassing, sets his sights on Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980

On this day in 1741 Commodore Anson’s secret squadron entered the Straits le Maire

How Four Women Destroyed 1,200 Tons of Poison Gas — and Defused a Crisis

Photos: Chaos and Resistance in Ukraine

What can a thermodynamics of mind say about how to thrive?

Doomed ship of gold’s ghostly picture gallery is plucked from the seabed

Ukraine’s Volunteer ‘IT Army’ Is Hacking in Uncharted Territory

Mysterious repeating fast radio burst from space looks strangely familiar, scientists realize

Curiosity Rover Finds a Bizarre Rock on Mars That Looks Like a Flower