This Plant Lurks Underground to Trap Prey in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold

Million Dollar Fakes: The Lucrative World of Counterfeit Basquiats

We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals

Is Music Universal?

Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs

The Case of the False Thumb: Giant Panda’s “Amazing” Feature Developed at Least Six Million Years Ago

The Norwegian library with unreadable books

How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state

How Are the Bees?

This bonus episode: 🐝Mutant intersex honeybees, 🐝tools for bees, 🐝cookie monster bee, and more bees!

Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’—turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light

The Gauntlet: Women wanted to fly jets in combat. It would prove the fight of their lives.

Plant-based plastic strong as PET, degrades into sugars in the environment

The World’s Oldest Pharmacy, Still Selling Potions for Graverobbers and Queens

NASA concept proposes swarm of swimming robots to explore alien oceans

Video: Overnight in the Most Remote Camp on Earth [27:56]

Universal flu vaccine developed by US government begins human trials

First 60 hours of the global atmospheric response to the Tonga eruption in Jan 2022, using two satellites

On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

The Sordid Past of the Cubic Formula

Riskiest Asteroid Known to Humankind in the Last Year Will Not Strike Earth for at Least 100 Years

Why the Search for Life on Mars Is Happening in Canada’s Arctic

Mesmerizing half-wheel bike shows two halves make a whole

The mystery of how dinosaurs had sex

Bubbles of history

Video: The Riddle That Seems Impossible Even If You Know The Answer [17:44]

A Surprisingly High Number of Wildfires Are Caused by Electrocuted Birds

Under Anesthesia, Where Do Our Minds Go?

In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today

China Reveals Massive Project to Find ‘Earth 2.0’

An Art Crime For the Ages

Emmett Till: family seeks arrest after discovery of unserved 1955 warrant

CEO test-drives Mojo Vision’s smart augmented reality contact lens

Underwater Wine Jars Suggest How Romans Kept Wine Safe And Flavorful

The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects

Why Strong Magnets React to Copper

First Webb Images Will Include Exoplanet Data and the Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe

Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers

Harvard’s acoustic computer chip uses sound waves to encode data

AI could improve welfare of farmed chickens by listening to their squawks

Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

Video: The $37BN Road That’s Changing a Country [11:12]

Ten Years of CRISPR

The genetic power of ancient trees

She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle

Early human fossils are a million years older than expected

Chilli peppers, coffee, wine: how the climate crisis is causing food shortages

Video: Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular [6:26]

Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets?

Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman

How three sisters (and their mom) tried to swindle the CRA out of millions

101-Year-Old Former Nazi Camp Guard Jailed for 5 Years

Can Rebranding Invasive Carp Make It More Appealing to Eat?

How Dragonflies Make the Most Extraordinary Journey in Nature

Mars Has So Much Radiation, Any Signs of Life Would Be Buried Six Feet Under

Cygnus cargo ship allows US to control ISS orbit without Russian help

On this day in 1905, Dr. Beaurieux attempted to converse with a freshly severed head, for science