‘Fire-breathing dragon clouds’: a wildfire-fueled phenomenon explained

On this day in 1945 the first ever nuclear bomb was used in war

The UK’s deadliest garden

Don’t fall for the snake oil claims of ‘structured water’. A chemist explains why it’s nonsense

The Rise and Fall of “True Crime” Radio Dramas

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The lost nuclear bombs that no one can find

French Scientist’s Photo of ‘Distant Star’ Was Actually Chorizo

‘Something Is Wrong Here.’ More Than 100 Local Residents Had Brain Tumors, but What Was the Cause?

Even scientists can’t keep up with all the newly discovered particles – our new naming scheme could help

Scientists create first full map of human immune system connectivity

Stalin’s Architect: The Remarkable Life of Boris Iofan

Insects may have been evolving to avoid light. So maybe we need to look harder for them.

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The Sinkhole That Swallowed a Mexican Farm

Antlers Do What No Other Bones Can

Scientists Explain ‘Mystery Masses’ Discovered on Seafloor

With solar arrays now operational, Lucy’s got some shimmering to do

Outsourcing our memory to digital devices may actually be beneficial

At Long Last, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Stable

Dogs are symbolic containers of human hopes, desires and vices

Physicists Finally Measure a Long Theorized Molecule Made From Light And Matter

Conjoined twins separated with the help of virtual reality

How Canada’s Bob Dylan Ended up a Taxi Driver

Many drugs have mirror image chemical structures – while one may be helpful, the other may be harmful

Why We Need to Study Nothing

The Elusive Origin of Zero

The Women of the Manhattan Project

From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies

This Tiny Modular Nuclear Reactor Just Got the Green Light From U.S. Regulators

Explorers just uncovered Australia’s deepest cave. A hydrogeologist explains how they form

Researchers repaired cells in damaged pig organs an hour after the animal’s death

Geometric Analysis Reveals How Birds Mastered Flight

‘As a young woman, I had a friendly correspondence with a German soldier right after World War II’

The ejector seats that fire through the floor

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Discovered in the deep: the snail with iron armour

Remote Surgical Robot Could Join Astronauts on Future Mars Missions

Scientists Reveal The Full Danger of The World’s Largest Active Volcano

Martian Glaciers May Have Carved Its Valleys

What To Do When Paris Becomes A Ghost Town

Surveillance is pervasive: Yes, you are being watched, even if no one is looking for you

‘Ghost footprints’ left by ancient hunter-gatherers discovered in Utah desert

Post-quantum encryption contender is taken out by single-core PC and 1 hour

Have Scholars Finally Deciphered a Mysterious Ancient Script?

Nanopillared lenses let scientists trap individual atoms with light

Mouse Embryo: No Sperm, Egg, or Uterus Required

Further Back in Time Than Ever Before: Distribution of Dark Matter Around Galaxies 12 Billion Years Ago Revealed

The story behind ‘Star Trek’ actress Nichelle Nichols’ iconic interracial kiss

Tonga’s eruption injected so much water into Earth’s atmosphere that it could weaken the ozone layer

A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter

Is the killer behind the 1982 Tylenol poisonings still on the loose?

Webb Captures Stellar Gymnastics in The Cartwheel Galaxy

Bizarre study finds common parasite can make you more attractive

Decades Ago, A Woman Survived Being ‘Frozen Solid’. Here’s The Science

Super-Earth Ross 508b skims habitable zone of red dwarf

The Surprising Benefits of Yawning

Is the James Webb Space Telescope finding the furthest, oldest, youngest or first galaxies? An astronomer explains

Climate change: More studies needed on possibility of human extinction

‘Like an alien obelisk’: space debris found in Snowy Mountains paddock believed to be from SpaceX mission