The Solar System may have lost the original “Planet Nine”

‘The lady without legs or arms’: how an artist shattered Victorian ideas about disability

Before Ships Used GPS, There Was the Fresnel Lens

A Whole Age of Warfare Sank With the Moskva

CRISPR-edited hamsters exhibit unexpected social behavior changes

Did NASA find a mysterious doorway on Mars? No, but that’s no reason to stop looking

How Quantum Simulations Are Set To Revolutionize Lithium Batteries

You Eat a Credit Card’s Worth of Plastic Every Week

Why are we seeing all these UFOs?

Ukrainian Soldiers Uncover Fourth-Century Urns While Digging Defense Trenches

1 Million Deaths, 13 Last Messages

A Brief History of Paris’s Bone-Filled Catacombs

Kosmos 482: questions around a failed Venera lander from 1972 still orbiting Earth (but not for long)

Graphyne: Long-Hypothesized Next Generation “Wonder Material” Created for First Time

Tinnitus seems linked with sleep – understanding how could bring us closer to finding a cure

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Over 100 years of Antarctic agriculture is helping scientists grow food in space

On the Early Days of Life in the Sky as a Stewardess

Minnesota Drought Unveils 8,000-Year-Old Human Skull

Boeing’s capsule encounters propulsion issues on way to International Space Station

Galaxies without dark matter perplex astronomers

Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas

The medical power of hypnosis

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The Chinese Exclusion Act: Annotated

Three decades of space telescope observations converge on a precise value for the Hubble constant

How Growing Up In the Digital Age Impacts Young Minds

Two Military Satellites Just Communicated With Each Other Using Space Lasers

Italy’s longest river, fed by melt from the Alps, dries up, threatening agricultural collapse

Chinese cave explorers discovered a 630-foot-deep sinkhole containing a massive ancient forest

‘Ghost’ fossils reveal tiny organisms that survived ancient ocean warming events

Chile’s desert town built on mummies

What the UFO Discussion Really Needs

Tonga volcano blasted winds to the edge of space

Mystery issue experienced on NASA’s Voyager 1 probe from 1977

Boeing is trying again to launch its Starliner capsule to the space station — here’s what’s at stake

Astronauts may one day drink water from ancient moon volcanoes

On this day in 1984 Michael Larson pressed his luck

Mind-Altering Parasite May Make Infected People More Attractive, Study Suggests

This Space Rock’s Weird Chemistry Suggests It Came From a Supernova

How Should We Teach American History?

Gallery: A Look Inside the Defining Era of 1950s Las Vegas

‘There are no words for the horror: the story of my madness’

The US Army Planned a Nuclear Version of Its Already Crazy Off-Road Land Train

Ancient Molar Found in Laos Could Help Fill in a Gap in Human History

Congress’ first public hearing on UFOs in half a century has spurred a slew of questions

Extinction obituary: the sudden, sad disappearance of the Christmas Island forest skink

Desperate Lawmakers Discuss Piping Ocean Water to Fill Great Salt Lake

‘Why aren’t they solving this?’: Nieces continue to look for answers 60 years after Saskatoon nurse’s death

How Complex Is a Knot? New Proof Reveals Ranking System That Works

First Patient Dosed With Experimental Cancer-Killing Virus in New Trial

No, Researchers Have Not Pinpointed the Cause of SIDS

Solar power at night? New study suggests it may be possible

Russian soldier pleads guilty in first war crimes trial of Ukraine conflict

How a quick-thinking doctor with a drill saved a man’s life

Our majestic Milky Way stars in annual astrophotography competition

The simple act of spreading rock dust on farms is an overlooked but tantalizing climate solution

Artificial Lives: On the Occult Origins of Chemistry and the Stuff of Life

New problem at San Francisco’s still-sinking Millennium Tower means it may be forever tilting

Astronomers Discover Mysterious Circular Ring – Likely of Intergalactic Origin