Brown Bears Fishing at Alaska’s Brooks Falls

SETI Deploys New Instruments in Search for Alien Intelligence

The Titan Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal

New space race reignites the epic of lunar probes half a century later

What Happens to All the Stuff We Return?

Why Darwin Admired the Humble Earthworm

How Rescuers Found Four Australians and Two Indonesians Lost at Sea

Newly Discovered World Directly Challenges Our Understanding of Planet Formation

Math Proof Draws New Boundaries Around Black Hole Formation

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The race to tap the Moon’s immense value

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft enters lunar orbit -space agency

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Inside MIT’s nuclear reactor laboratory

The bubbly chemistry behind carbonated beverages

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What Happened When the US Set Off Nuclear Weapons in One of the Most Geologically Active Places on Earth?

The Sriracha Shortage Is a Very Bad Sign

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Scientists reconstruct Pink Floyd song by listening to people’s brainwaves

On this day in 1984, 37 people died when a nearby lake exploded

Futuristic Paper Shows It’s Feasible to Build a Space Station on an Asteroid

How Rocks and Minerals Play with Light to Produce Breathtaking Colors

A New Experiment Casts Doubt on the Leading Theory of the Nucleus

This Molecule May Have Seeded Earth Life

Michigan State students discover traces of school’s first observatory built in 1881

This solar cycle, the sun’s activity is more powerful and surprising than predicted

100-year ‘megastorms’ on Saturn shower the ringed planet in ammonia rain

On this day in 1977 the Big Ear radio observatory in Ohio detected something inexplicable

Earth’s story is not about dynasties but communities

‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup

No One Ever Thought They’d Get Famous Playing This Dorky Game. Then This Guy Came Along.

Astronomers find a brown dwarf that’s hotter than the Sun

The Microbiome and Its Myth-Making Machine

Researchers create 3D-printed vegan seafood

Weather Engineering Could Short Circuit Intense Storms — But It Comes With Big Consequences

17 years into its mission, NASA’s STEREO spacecraft visits home

1610: Dawn of the Extraterrestrial

England’s mysterious sunken roads

We Just Got An Unprecedented Look At The Details of Cell Division

“Demon particle” accidentally discovered, solving 67-year mystery

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Judge rules in favor of youths in landmark Montana climate trial

A new technique is to be trialled in an attempt to put out a fire which has been burning underground for two years

‘Macabre curiosities’: top US medical museum confronts skeletons of its past

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Man Encounters a Whale Seemingly Frozen in Place

There’s far more scientific fraud than anyone wants to admit

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Could white holes actually exist?

The Shadowy History Behind the Fight to Save the Redwoods

An Experiment Buried Deep Inside an Abandoned Gold Mine Could Solve a Huge Physics Mystery

Teen Survives Terrifying 100-Foot Fall at the Grand Canyon