‘No one wants a Nazi in their family’: a German prisoner of war, a secret affair and the mystery of my dad’s parentage

The Floating Traffic Jam That Freaked Us All Out

NHS patients in England to be offered trials for world-first cancer vaccine

Zombie fires in the Arctic smoulder underground and refuse to die

T Coronae Borealis is going to explode and will be visible to the naked eye very soon

Why AI Search Blew Up in Google’s Face

The Brothers Grimm Did Much More Than Tell Fairy Tales

NASA Warns U.S Public To Ignore ‘Parade Of The Planets’ Hoax

3,500-year-old rock art of wild sheep and double-humped camels revealed in Kazakhstan

Ursula Le Guin: the pioneering author we should thank for popularizing Schrödinger’s cat

The Biggest Ponzi Scheme in Hollywood History

Strange Metal From Beyond Our Planet Found in Ancient Treasure Stash

An Island Community Displaced by Climate Change

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Trial results for new lung cancer drug are ‘off the charts’, say doctors

Video: The weirdest things about English [21:37]

Before ‘Fans,’ There Were ‘Kranks,’ ‘Longhairs,’ and ‘Lions’

Making or appreciating art can improve your health, regardless of how much you know about it, experts say

Firebird III: General Motors’ 1958 Car That Looks Straight Out of a Sci-Fi Movie

Is collapse of the Atlantic Ocean circulation really imminent? Icebergs’ history reveals some clues

The chicken and egg problem of fighting another flu pandemic

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The mysterious pairs of planets we still can’t explain

Japan loses contact with Akatsuki, humanity’s only active Venus probe

The Sun Just Unleashed Yet Another Fierce Solar Flare, and It’s Only Getting Started

World’s thinnest lens is just three atoms thick

What to Know About World’s First Wooden Satellite, Set to Launch This Year

Mathematicians Attempt to Glimpse Past the Big Bang

James Webb space telescope photographs most distant known galaxy

Video: How did ancient civilizations make ice cream? [4:54]

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Steam’s Last Stand

The Textbooks Were Wrong About How Your Tongue Works

On this day in 1934, a very stubborn man attempted to be the first to summit Mount Everest

A beginner’s guide to tungsten

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‘Sleeping on it’ really does help and four other recent sleep research breakthroughs

World’s 1st carved horse: The 35,000-year-old ivory figurine from Vogelherd cave

Revealed: Churchill’s unsent letter that could have changed the course of history

Did pandemic lockdowns stunt kids’ immune systems long-term?

Sun’s Magnetic Field Forms Close to Surface

Video: What Jumping Spiders Teach Us About Color [32:36]

Former California water official pleads guilty in heist to steal and sell water with secret pipe

Mapping the universe with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory

North Korea drops trash balloons on the South

The death of Vulcan: Study reveals planet is actually an astronomical illusion caused by stellar activity

Spiral Waves May Explain the Sun’s Baffling Rotation

A New Hydrogen Combustion Engine Is Legitimately Heating Up

What’s Under This Hole on the Surface of Mars?

The real threat with AI is falling prey to the hype

To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder — and the brain

Stuck at sea for years, a sailor’s plight highlights a surge in shipowner abandonment

Mystery malware destroys 600,000 routers from a single ISP during 72-hour span

Why scientists say we need to send clocks to the moon

Sports cars and millions seized in cybercrime busts

World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

Music Helped Connect Hunter-Gatherer Groups in Central Africa

The Unusual Espionage Act Case Against a Drone Photographer

The Greek Beach That Looks Like the Moon

A Crocodile Equipped with Armadillo Armor Once Roamed Earth