How Russia’s cosmonauts trained for space

Searching for New Physics in the Subatomic World

Why the First Time You Hear a Song Is Special, According to Science

The Space Telescope That Could Find a Second Earth

Does consciousness come from the brain’s electromagnetic field?

Weekends in Space

New earthquake-detecting app may give people more time to evacuate

Many experiencing strange and vivid dreams during the pandemic, sleep researchers say

Scientists Created a Video Game That Makes People Hear Sounds That Aren’t Real

New Study Reveals Fireflies Have Musical Armor Protecting Them Against Predators

‘We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our son’

The 17th-century cloth merchant who discovered the vast realm of tiny microbes

Studies in Mice Help to Explain Why Redheads Have Different Pain Thresholds

The enduring allure of lost cities

He Led Hitler’s Secret Police in Austria. Then He Spied for the West.

10 years of Nyan Cat: The famed GIF’s creator on hitting the meme jackpot

The California Klan’s Anti-Asian Crusade

‘I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget’

NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter survives first night alone on Mars

Some zebras are developing odd stripes, and humans could be to blame, says biologist

Siberia’s sacred lake

Marwa Elselehdar: ‘I was blamed for blocking the Suez Canal’

Volkswagen Beetle, the game-changing People’s Car

Nuts for coco de mer: islanders rally to save world’s biggest seed

60 years after Bay of Pigs, New York Times role – and myth – made clear

The US dollar’s hegemony is looking fragile

A real life Lord of the Flies: The 50-year-old story of a group of teens stranded on an island

Four ways to fusion: The pros and pitfalls of our nuclear power pursuit

How China saved more than 20,000 Jews during WW2

Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years

Sneaky New Bacteria on the ISS Could Build a Future on Mars

A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms

First known gene transfer from plant to insect identified

Miss art museums? The Louvre just put its entire art collection online

He Built a $10 Billion Investment Firm. It Fell Apart in Days.

When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe?

NASA’s Mars helicopter Ingenuity touches down on the Red Planet

In photos: Egypt holds grand procession of ancient mummies in Cairo

Hubble captured an unbelievable view of Veil Nebula

Video: Shadows Near The Moon’s South Pole [1:23]

The ‘elite controllers’ who can naturally suppress HIV

Super-cold thunderstorm sets temperature record

Six things we didn’t know about the Beatles

Perseverance Rover investigates odd green rock on Mars

When America Couldn’t Bring Back Our Girls

These weird lumps of ‘inflatons’ could be the very first structures in the universe

Why Animals Don’t Get Lost

How long would it take to walk around the moon?

The cesspool of the internet is to be found in a village in North Holland

New Research Exposes Weird Tsunamis Caused by Gravity Waves

Evidence of 430,000-year-old asteroid impact discovered in Antarctica

The Long History and Bright Future of Vegan Cheese

USS Johnston: Sub dives to deepest-known shipwreck

This week: Tectonic usefulness, greening the Sinai, asteroid flybys, and more

The Ghosts of Brooks Brothers

NFTs Weren’t Supposed to End Like This

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest

The Collapse of Puerto Rico’s Iconic Telescope

Home-field advantage persists without fans in stands

Lab-made hexagonal diamonds stiffer than natural diamonds