‘I just go into my head and enjoy it’: the people who can’t stop daydreaming

The Origin of the 30,000-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf

Photos: Devastating Monsoon Flooding in Pakistan

The Bizarre Mystery of the Only Armed Nuke America Ever Lost

Four Things We’ve Learned About NASA’s Planned Base Camp on the Moon

Video: This giant laser can simulate a planet’s core [10:03]

A New Study Confirms That Gravity has Remained Constant for the Entire age of the Universe

Wave-riding generators promise the cheapest clean energy ever

Is dopamine more than just a feel-good hormone?

A Pair of Supermassive Black Holes Could Be Fated to Collide Within 3 Years

The Himalayas’ ancient earthquake-defying design

Vivid Images Capture A Stunning Shift in San Francisco’s Salty South Bay

Webb inspects the heart of the Phantom Galaxy

Bacteria’s Immune Sensors Reveal a Novel Way to Detect Viruses

‘Man of the Hole’: Last of his tribe dies in Brazil

NASA calls off Artemis 1 moon rocket launch over engine cooling issue

What’s the real story behind James ‘Whitey’ Bulger’s violent murder?

How Scientists Are Cleaning Up Rivers Using Grasses and Oysters

Webb Has Snapped an Almost Perfect Einstein Ring In Distant Space

DART perfectly on track to smash into an asteroid

Dinosaur remains in Portuguese garden could be Europe’s largest ever find

In a similar vein to the gods: Golden Blood

NASA moon rocket on track for launch despite lightning hits

Plumes of dust as India demolishes illegal skyscrapers

Mucus Is So Handy That We Evolve It Over And Over Again, Finds Study

‘Star factory’ at Milky Way’s heart seen for the first time

Heatwave in China is the most severe ever recorded in the world

Rare, precious, smells like whale: hunting for ambergris in New Zealand

The 50 Million-Year-Old Treasures of Fossil Lake

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Was King Arthur a Real Person?

This Smoke Could Make U.S. Troops Invisible

‘Levitating’ nanoparticles could push the limits of quantum entanglement

California bans new combustion car sales from 2035

NASA Engineer Develops Tiny, High-Powered Laser to Find Water on the Moon

Stinky sweat turns out to have a surprising health benefit

Perseverance rover reveals rocks on Mars were repeatedly exposed to liquid water

Italy’s drought exposes ancient imperial bridge over Tiber

‘Look closely and there’s a tear in Armstrong’s eye’: the Apollo space missions as you’ve never seen them before

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The Mystery Inside Monkeypox Vaccines

On this day in 1980 a strange device and a menacing letter mysteriously appeared in a Lake Tahoe casino

Lab-made mouse embryos grew brains and beating hearts, just like the real thing

MIT scientists have discovered a population of neurons that light up whenever we see images of food

Video: What Happens to a Family “When Glaciers Go” [16:55]

How Deadly Bacteria Spread in a Similac Factory—and Caused the US Formula Shortage

The Edwardian Style Spy Photographer

Skeleton of an 82-foot-long dinosaur was found in a man’s backyard in Portugal. It could be the largest ever found in Europe.

The Civilizing of Laughter

When Private Equity Takes Over a Nursing Home

Rare “Red Sprites” Seen From ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile

30 years ago tonight, Sarajevo’s National Library was burned to the ground.

Big Mound on LSU Campus Is the Oldest Known Human-Made Structure in the Americas, Scientists Say

Keeping Time with Incense Clocks

This company is about to grow new organs in a person for the first time

Are We Ready for the Next Massive Volcano?

The Patterns, Routines, and Pervasive Fear of Daily Life in Prison

Old Problem About Algebraic Curves Falls to Young Mathematicians

Hydrogen-powered trains enter passenger service in Germany

Dad’s Ham Radio Hobby Leads to Daughter Calling Astronaut in Space