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An ob-gyn in Virginia performed unnecessary surgeries on patients for decades. When his victims learned the truth, they fought back.

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again

How Many Planets Could Be in the Kuiper Belt?

An Iowa paperboy disappeared 41 years ago. His mother is still on the case

Could exercise pills help create a healthier society?

Ancient Black Hole Challenges Our Understanding of the Early Universe

Aging’s Antidote? The Crucial Role of HKDC1 in Keeping Cells Youthful

How social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit

New antibiotic family kills superbugs in a way they can’t resist

Scientists Translated Spiderwebs Into Music

The Neighbors Who Destroyed Their Lives

JunoCam’s Highest Resolution image of Io

Damn, it has been a rough few months

Scientists keep finding things buried in the permafrost

Ancient Black Hole Challenges Our Understanding of the Early Universe

Scientists develop ‘flying dragon’ robot to fight fires from a distance

What It’s Like to Build a Castle From Scratch Using Only Medieval Construction Methods

Vibrating pill treats obesity by tricking stomach into feeling full

Cinchona: A Legacy of Extraction and Extirpation

Why Some Continents Go Missing—And How Scientists Find Them Again

Otherworldly mini-Yellowstone found in the deep sea

Gallery: Winter wonderlands from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest

A day on Mars.

Google settles $5bn lawsuit for ‘private mode’ tracking

Fascia: the most neglected part of our body is finally starting to receive attention

America Lost Its One Perfect Tree

A Psychologist Describes A New Phobia On The Rise: ‘Nomophobia’

Study reveals the unique mathematics of snowflakes

Video: This Is How You Don’t Fake Your Death [42:07]

A Lost World of Lagoons Has Suddenly Appeared in Argentina

This Is the Moment the Corvette Became the American Sports Car

Why Aren’t More People Buying Over-The-Counter Hearing Aids?

Police identify man found shot in Arizona desert in 1976

Helicopter to perform radiation checks on Las Vegas Strip prior to New Year’s Eve celebration

What are the hazards of living in space? Swollen heads, for one

Why a far-right gang once tried to steal the corpse of France’s Marshal Pétain

Scientists discover the first new antibiotics in over 60 years using AI

Scientists discover new way to identify liquid water on exoplanets

What Makes Cheddar Cheese Taste So Good?

The First Secret Asteroid Mission Won’t Be the Last

New York City In Kodachrome – Color Photos Found In A Trashcan From the 1950s and 1960s

The fish that eats piranhas for breakfast

Intermittent Fasting Seems to Result in Dynamic Changes to The Human Brain

We Were Born to Groove

JWST Sets a New Record, Sees Newly Forming Stars in the Triangulum Galaxy

To catch a catfish

The First Pieces Of The World’s Largest Telescope Just Arrived In Chile — And They Are Gorgeous

Keeping a streak alive can be strong motivation to stick with a chosen activity

Super-healing shark regrows its fin after humans cut a huge chunk off

Scientists Destroy 99% of Cancer Cells in The Lab Using Vibrating Molecules

NASA’s Daring Mission To Intercept the “God of Chaos” Asteroid As It Closes In on Earth

New York Times Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Use of Copyrighted Work

Quantum Computing’s Hard, Cold Reality Check

Discovery of ‘calendar’ rock carvings from Ancestral Pueblo in US Southwest surpasses ‘wildest expectations’

Video: Chinese villagers capture video of falling Long March rocket booster

Novel helmet liner 30 times better at stopping concussions

Physicists Designed an Experiment to Turn Light Into Matter

AI finally solves the mystery behind Renaissance painting

When a Labyrinth of Pneumatic Tubes Shuttled Mail Beneath the Streets of New York City