Genetic traits of Black Death survivors linked to autoimmune diseases today

How desk jobs alter your brain – and why they’re so tiring

How a magician-mathematician revealed a casino loophole

Fossils Upend Conventional Wisdom about Evolution of Human Bipedalism

“Monster” black hole may be the closest to Earth found so far

‘Oumuamua still puzzling scientists 5 years after discovery

Murder at Sea

Ukraine’s true detectives: the investigators closing in on Russian war criminals

How evolution made us laugh.

Dark matter “meteors” could be streaking through Earth’s atmosphere

Radioactive Waste Found on Missouri Elementary School Grounds

A new type of material called a mechanical neural network can learn and change its physical properties to create adaptable, strong structures

The Extragalactic Alien Hunt

The Story Behind “This is Your Brain on Drugs”

Homing missile molecule eradicates even advanced cancers in mice

How the California Gold Rush Drew People from All Over the World

Humans are 8% virus – how the ancient viral DNA in your genome plays a role in human disease and development

New research suggests our brains use quantum computation

Microphones dropped into ocean off Greenland to record melting icebergs

First Known Family of Neanderthals Found in Russian Cave

Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable

NASA’s Webb Takes Star-Filled Portrait of Pillars of Creation

First known map of night sky found hidden in Medieval parchment

You See a Venomous Black Widow Spider. These Lizards See a Snack.

Anna May Wong will become the first Asian American on U.S. coins

Next pandemic may come from melting glaciers, new data shows

Your Mind Wanders Because Your Brain Whispers

Where Have All the Men in Moscow Gone?

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

Video: This 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world [4:39]

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

Video: What Happens if a Supervolcano Blows Up? [11:58]

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?

Video: Weird metal that’s also glass is insanely bouncy [18:02]

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