Black Holes Are an Eternal Mystery

Pioneering wind-powered cargo ship sets sail

Japanese scientists may have unraveled the secret of aging resistance in naked mole-rats

Unveiling Japan’s ancient practice of cranial modification: The case of the Hirota people in Tanegashima

What Separates Highly Creative People

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Researchers develop arrays of tiny crystals that deliver efficient wireless energy

Wisconsin Prison On Lockdown for More Than Four Months With No End in Sight

On this day in 1977 Voyager 2 launched, about 2 weeks before Voyager 1 launched

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France pays tribute to ‘youngest resistant’ who has died aged 91

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Russia’s Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon

Scientists Just Made Intriguing Progress Toward Regenerating Human Teeth

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Now classified as a hurricane, Hilary could touch down in southwestern U.S. this weekend

The Man Who Pierced the Iron Curtain in a Flying Go-Kart—and Left Civilization Forever

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Himachal Pradesh floods: More rain, less snow are turning Himalayas dangerous

3D Printers Go Rogue, Start Printing While Owners Are Asleep

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Math’s ‘Hairy Ball Theorem’ Has Surprising Implications

Photo captures moment parasitic fungus bursts from huge spider’s body

Stunning photos of a new African wonder

Surgeons transplant pig’s kidney into brain-dead man; Organ works normally even after a month

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Neptune’s Clouds Just Disappeared — and Astronomers Think They Know Why

Ancient, impressive water pipe system in China was made by egalitarian society

Fully Intact Giant Panda Skeleton Discovered in Chinese Emperor’s 2,000-Year-Old Tomb

Sound Really Can Travel in a Vacuum, And We Can Finally Explain How

How the 1908 Council of Governors Brought Governors and Moguls Together to Prevent Environmental Catastrophe

New Horizons Is Now So Far Away, It Can Measure The True Darkness of Space

‘Like becoming a refugee again’: They paid for their crimes. The US deported them anyway

What Is Narcissism? Science Confronts a Widely Misunderstood Phenomenon

DARPA’s new study to enable a shared lunar infrastructure

13 billion-year-old ‘Maisie’s galaxy’ is one of the oldest objects in the universe, James Webb telescope reveals

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

‘How They Tried to Kill Me’

The Body, Not the Brain, Regulates Sleep

The race to tap the Moon’s immense value

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When two stars orbit each other, gravity gets weird

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