The Mentalist

The Traffic Jam in Low Earth Orbit

Geothermal spa closes in Iceland as guests flee after series of earthquakes

Stunning New Videos of DART Asteroid Impact Will Blow Your Mind

How to Hijack a Quarter of a Million Dollars in Rare Japanese Kit Kats

How we’re building the world’s biggest optical telescope to crack some of the greatest puzzles in science

On this day in 1939 a German handyman almost succeeded in assassinating Hitler. Insert time traveler joke here.

Implant uses brain signals to decode what people are trying to say

How animals get their stripes and spots

Why It’s Never Been Harder to Make a Living as a Writer

‘Inestimable importance’: 500-year-old cache of pressed flowers reveals new secrets

Original photo from Led Zeppelin IV album cover discovered

What Does the U.S. Space Force Actually Do?

A man has been crushed to death by a robot in South Korea after it failed to differentiate him from the boxes of food it was handling

After 90 Years, Mathematicians Finally Solved the Most Notorious Ramsey Problem

The 420-year-search for Shakespeare’s lost play

Enceladus has All the Raw Materials for Life

An Undersea Volcano Is Building a New Island in Japan

50 years ago today, workers removed the remains of an extraordinary tree

Rocks From Mars Are Hitting Earth, And Something Is Odd About Their Age

It’s Official: Oxygen Has Been Directly Detected in Venus’ Dayside Atmosphere

Humanity Just Witnessed Its First Space Battle

‘At 17, I was jailed for a murder I didn’t commit – and spent seven life-changing years in prison’

In the ‘Wild West’ of Geometry, Mathematicians Redefine the Sphere

Looking for the Perfect Onion

How a German Spy Chief Built a Smuggling Network out of a Mission to Install a Nazi King in Britain

Video: When NYC Put a Celebrity in Every Taxi [23:35]

How to Make Asteroid Landings Safer

The Lindbergh Baby Mystery Has Lasted 91 Years. Tantalizing Evidence May Solve It.

Orcas Sink Another Boat in the Strait of Gibraltar

A violent murder, a child on death row

Acapulco was built to withstand earthquakes, but not Hurricane Otis’ destructive winds

The CIA Rectal Tool Kit for Cold War Spies

How Life Really Works

Sold for $239,000, This Map Is Actually a Rare 14th-Century Nautical Chart—and Worth $7.5 Million

What Skulls Told Us

The Theory of General Relativity Says White Holes Should Exist. So Where Are They?

New evidence strongly suggests Indonesia’s Gunung Padang is oldest known pyramid

After decades lost, Star Trek’s original Enterprise model may have been found

Facial reconstructions help the past come alive. But are they accurate?

How Chris Strachwitz Captured American Music Where It Was Made

Euclid telescope sends back first images from ‘dark universe’ mission

A ‘Ghost River’ Is Unearthed in Baltimore

French love letters confiscated by Britain finally read after 265 years

This is a First. An Exoplanet in a Polar Circumbinary Disc Surrounding Two Stars.

Doctors Call for Eliminating Daylight Savings Time

NASA’s Curiosity rover clocks 4,000 days on Mars

Video: World’s Best Night Vision vs World’s Darkest Room [27:15]

A Guide to the James Webb Telescope’s View of the Universe

These Photos From Over 100 Years Ago Show Us Paris in Colour

Experimental spinal cord implant helps Parkinson’s patient walk in new study

Video: A cast saw on human skin [8:31]

Why ‘Following the Money’ Isn’t Enough to Stop Organised Crime Anymore

NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

The Largest Gravity Hole in the World Has a Mysterious Origin

Millions of US homes are so overheated they open their windows in the winter. Why?

Electric Planes, Once a Fantasy, Start to Take to the Skies

After Being Resuscitated, Cardiac Arrest Patients Tell What Dying Was Like

Befouling the Final Frontier

The Most Powerful Ion Engine Ever Built Passes the Test