Pennsylvania boy, nine, becomes one of the youngest ever high school graduates

The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years

Finland’s Most-Wanted Hacker Nabbed in France

We May Have Had an Interstellar Visitor for Eons and Scientists Are Stumped

Neanderthals May Have Used Animal Skulls as Decor

Farewell radiators? Testing out electric infrared wallpaper

‘We killed three Russians’: the secretive Ukrainian special forces taking the fight across the border

Astronomers are Working on a 3D map of Cosmic Dawn

The Long Life of the Nacirema

The Twisted Tale of the Real Mickey Mouse

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Scientists Discover Amorphous Ice That’s Weirdly Similar to Liquid Water

How Did Amy Robsart Die?

AI models spit out photos of real people and copyrighted images

Cryptic lost Canaanite language decoded on ‘Rosetta Stone’-like tablets

Why is every tech company suddenly laying off about 6% of its workforce?

The Oregon Lab Where Scientists Are Riding the Waves to a Brighter Future

Discovered in the deep: the anglerfish with vampire-like sex lives

“They just weren’t the kind of people for that”: The 1934 Smith Family Massacre in Demopolis, Alabama

Scammed: why the rich, famous and experts get duped more often than you think

The First Stars May Have Weighed More Than 100,000 Suns

Scientists Find New Evidence of Hidden Ocean World in Our Solar System

NASA Spots Bizarre Formations on the Surface of Mars

Italy’s ancient, conical homes

Astronomers Find What May Be a Habitable World 31 Light-Years Away

Pentagon tracking suspected Chinese spy balloon over the US

Scientists created a weird new type of ice that is almost exactly as dense as water

Hubble Telescope Directly Measures a White Dwarf Mass for the First Time

Scientist Accidentally Discovers The Oldest Brain of Any Vertebrate

Egyptian mummy-making used oils and resins found only in Asia and African rainforests, scientists report

The Earth’s Continental Crust is Totally Weird

The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia

‘Five Years Ago, I Wrote a Fictional Disaster That Is Now Playing Out in Real Time’

How undersea cables may affect marine life

US man cleaning out late grandmother’s apartment shot dead by police

How to Forge Shells for Ukraine’s Artillery

Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice

What were those glowing green lasers over Hawaii?

New map of the universe’s matter reveals a possible hole in our understanding of the cosmos

When Americans Lost Faith in the News

Pit find in Germany reveals how Neanderthals hunted huge elephants

Zookeepers Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of How a Gibbon Got Pregnant by Herself

Why Groundhog Day has its roots in astronomy

New Prototype Device Generates Hydrogen From Untreated Seawater

What’s in Store-Bought Chicken Stock, and Why Are Brands so Secretive About It?

“We’re Not Calling This a Rescue Soyuz”

Astronomers Find Rare Star System That Will Trigger a Kilonova

Dying for sex: endangered male quolls may be mating themselves to death instead of sleeping, scientists say

One Year Later, a Tongan Eruption Is Still Reverberating

Hear the Wind on Mars

They Outlasted the Dinosaurs. Can They Survive Us?

The Hunt for Russian Collaborators in Ukraine

Can a mass shooter demand a good death? The strange case that tested the limits of justice

Lab-grown 3D skin grafts could be applied like “biological clothing”

How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it

Astronomers Find a Dozen More Moons for Jupiter

Tanzania in the Cold War Crucible

Metal detectorist unearths Tudor gold pendant linked to Henry VIII in Warwickshire

The hype is out of this world, but mining in space won’t save the Earth

Astronomers Find 25 Hugely Powerful Fast Radio Bursts That Keep Repeating