On this day in 1962 an extremely portable nuclear weapon was tested in the Nevada desert

Shoplifting, for Fun and Profit

Designing less addictive opioids, through chemistry

Derinkuyu: the ancient underground city, once home to 20,000 people

What is the smallest particle in the universe? (What about the largest?)

‘No One is Safe’: How The Heatwave Has Battered the Wealthy World

Pay secrecy: Why some workers can’t discuss salaries

How the Moon ‘Wobble’ Affects Rising Tides and Flooding

Living on Earth while your dad walks on the moon

Human Genome Mostly Overlaps With Neanderthals, Other Human Ancestors

The lion in the London black cab: the remarkable story of Singh, and the boy who loved him

This week: 👂 Auditory lenses, 🌎 planetary tilt benefits, 🐟 meth-addicted fish, and more!

Newly-Discovered ‘Borg’ DNA Is Unlike Anything Scientists Have Ever Seen

When did humans start experimenting with alcohol and drugs?

Human Protein Dissolves Bacterial Membranes

Big bang: how we are trying to ‘listen’ to it – and the new physics it could unveil

The online data that’s being deleted

Climate scientists shocked by scale of floods in Germany

Scientist Creates a Revolutionary Map of All Forces in the Universe

To catch deep-space neutrinos, astronomers lay traps in Greenland’s ice

On this day in 1969 the first manned mission to the moon launched, the spacecraft’s occupants insured through an inventive scheme

Physicists Levitate a Glass Nanosphere, Pushing It Into The Realm of Quantum Mechanics

Video: Nikola Tesla vs. Thomas Edison: The Rivalry [13:41]

When Tuberculosis Patients Quarantined Inside Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave

‘Hubble is back!’ Famed space telescope has new lease on life after computer swap appears to fix glitch

What’s the Big Stink About Corpse Flowers?

A Strange Abandoned Hiking Lodge No One Knew was Designed by Gaudi Himself

Laughing gas could be the next tool against treatment-resistant depression

Where Did the Super-Rich Escape to During the Pandemic? Mustique, Of Course.

How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior

Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern math

These Squiggles May Be Some of the Oldest Fossil Life on Earth

‘Time-Traveling’ on an Airplane: One of the Cheapest Tests of Relativity

Paralyzed man’s brain waves turned into sentences on computer in medical first

Why Do Some Crimes Increase When Airbnbs Come to Town?

How Many Numbers Exist? Infinity Proof Moves Math Closer to an Answer.

The Truth Behind the Amazon Mystery Seeds From China

Heinz starts petition to make hot dogs and buns come in equal packs

NASA may finally know what caused the Hubble Space Telescope’s major computer glitch

Isotopes Detected in The Atmosphere of an Exoplanet For The First Time

‘I’ve outlasted them all’: the spectacular life of the world’s most powerful crossword editor

The Hollywood HIV Doctor Who Was Secretly Peddling Eternal Youth

Galileo the Science Publicist

No cults, no politics, no ghouls: how China censors the video game world

MIT Predicted in 1972 That Society Will Collapse This Century. New Research Shows We’re on Schedule.

The search for the loneliest whale in the world

Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts

NASA releases the most detailed photo of Jupiter’s largest moon to date

Moderna’s Next Act Is Using mRNA vs. Flu, Zika, HIV, and Cancer

When Injury Killed His Humble Dream, He Built a Whole Miniature World Instead

Spectacular Drone Views Of Giza Present the Pyramid in an Unusual Perspective

Cops Ignored Threat Posed by Menacing Clowns

How Cartographers for the U.S. Military Inadvertently Created a House of Horrors in South Africa

Don’t hike so close to me: How the presence of humans can disturb wildlife up to half a mile away

The Nice Married Couple Who Inspired People to ’Shroom

Reaching people on the internet in 2021

How to Feed 10,000 Rebel Fighters for 50 Years

Parents Who Never Stopped Searching Reunite With Son Abducted 24 Years Ago

Video: Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (full interview, March 2nd 1978) [15:44]

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