Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell

A World War II shipwreck has been leaking pollutants into the ocean and changing ecosystems for almost a century

NASA prepares to break the sound barrier with Lockheed Martin’s X-59

The Search Is on for Mysterious Banana Ancestors

Muppets in Moscow: the wild story behind Sesame Street in Russia

Livers can stay alive and functional for over 100 years across multiple donors and recipients

How Traveling Booksellers Spread Literature Throughout Ancient Greece

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How the World Will Know If Russia Is Preparing to Launch a Nuclear Attack

NASA Telescope Takes 12-Year Time-Lapse Movie of Entire Sky

Not Just a Big Fish, but Perhaps the Biggest Bony Fish Ever

On this day in 1959 humanity received its first grainy images of the far side of the moon

James Webb Space Telescope reveals new surprises on galaxy organic molecules near black holes

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Texas School Renovations Reveal a Teenager’s 1950s Purse Frozen in Time

Memory study induces sleeping people to forget word associations

October 17, 1961: A massacre of Algerians in the heart of Paris

Gallery: Remembering Enterprise: The Test Shuttle That Never Flew to Space

Sardinia’s mysterious beehive towers

The $30 Million Lottery Scam

The evolution of roots transformed life on Earth

Photos: Kamikaze Drones Strike Kyiv, Ukraine

How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation

This Danish Political Party Is Led by an AI

Renowned Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt — and astronomers are heartbroken

Astronomers Have A New Theory Why Uranus Spins On Its Side

Alzheimer’s might not be primarily a brain disease: new theory suggests it’s an autoimmune condition

Why Was the Lyme Disease Vaccine Tossed Away?

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What is Fog Reveal? A legal scholar explains the app some police forces are using to track people without a warrant

Mathematicians Discover the Fibonacci Numbers Hiding in Strange Spaces

This Unusual Asteroid Keeps Spinning Faster, And We Don’t Know Why

Mars’ moon eclipses Jupiter in breathtaking new video

BioNTech Founders Predict Cancer Vaccine Is Only Years Away

What We’ve Lost Playing the Lottery

Bacteria with interesting properties discovered in underground caves

Why the sci-fi dream of cryonics never died

Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on: what the Russians left behind

Ancient eel migration mystery unravelled

On this day in 1964 China detonated its first atomic bomb

Hearing discovery reveals ear architecture that turns vibration into sound

Bizarre black hole is blasting a jet of plasma at another galaxy

How can we know if food additives are safe?

How Microwave Radar Brought Direct Phone Calls to Millions

Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.

Cuban missile crisis: The man who saw too much

Record-breaking gamma-ray burst possibly most powerful explosion ever recorded

Russian troops kill Ukrainian musician for refusing role in Kherson concert

What Drives Galaxies? The Milky Way’s Black Hole May Be the Key

The world’s largest digital camera has enough detail to capture a Moon dust particle

Humans can dive deeper into the world’s oceans than ever before with Alvin

When Sarcastic Fringeheads Open Their Mouths, Watch Out

Unexpected Protective Properties of Pain

Alaska snow crab season canceled as officials investigate disappearance of an estimated 1 billion crabs

Chaos theory eliminates quantum uncertainty

Chaucer the Rapist? Newly Discovered Documents Suggest Not.

Neanderthals and modern humans may have copied each other’s tools

Chicago Commuters Once Had an Easy, Affordable Way To Beat Traffic: Helicopters

The Trouble with Amateur Hired Killers

Internet Misinformation Is Giving Spiders a Bad Rap, Study Shows