Mugshots and stories of Victorian child criminals who were jailed for petty crimes, 1870s

Mars Is More Beautiful Than Ever

Physicists detect a new type of molecular bond

A Tech Millionaire Bought a Giant Cold War Radar to ‘Find UFOs’

Mars sample return: How NASA will launch from the Red Planet

How Jennifer Doudna’s Life Has Changed Since Discovering CRISPR 10 Years Ago

June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal

Video: How Do You Steer a Drill Below The Earth? [14:52]

Mystery at the Oslo Plaza

Video: Will The Army Get Electric Tanks? [14:55]

Chasing Ghosts: Unlocking the Mysteries of Human Hibernation

‘How a Tourette’s Diagnosis Helped Me Understand Who I Am’

NASA Spacecraft Sent to Unexplored Orbit for Moon Outpost Goes Silent

Video: Behind the Name: James Webb Space Telescope [41:19]

Archaeologists Begin First-Ever Excavation of Tomb Linked to King Arthur

How Do Dolphins Choose Their Name?

Ed Dwight was in line to be the first Black astronaut. History had other ideas

A nose for history: academics recreate lost smells from the past

Secrets of the Moon’s Permanent Shadows Are Coming to Light

Climate change: ‘Sand battery’ could solve green energy’s big problem

Physics meets paleontology: The hotly debated mechanics of pterosaur flight

Someone Got YouTube Videos To Play on a 40-Year-Old Computer That Can Only Display Green Text

Video: How does alcohol cause hangovers? [4:51]

The 2022 Astronomy Photographer of the Year shortlist is out of this world

Ruffled Feathers: How Feral Peacocks Divided a Small Town

Remembering the World War II Frogmen Who Trained in Secret off the California Coast

Robotic arms connected directly to brain of partially paralyzed man allows him to feed himself

A mysterious cult that predates Stonehenge

Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles: the pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks

Video: Why NASA Mustn’t Land Near the Moon’s Poles Yet [13:15]

A Florida county is quarantining after a second sighting of invasive Giant African land snail

How Did a Woman with a Missing Temporal Lobe Become Bilingual?

Physicists Are Startled by This Magnetic Material That ‘Freezes’ When Heated

Space Travel Will Absolutely Gut the Environment, Scientists Warn

Never-before-seen crystals found in perfectly preserved meteorite dust

Where will NASA put Artemis Base Camp on the moon?

Tonga Volcano Blasted Out Pressure Waves “Very Close to The Theoretical Limit”

Meet ReachBot, a robot designed to explore Martian caves

Connecting a Divided World: A Brief History of Iran’s Postal System

Red supergiant stars bubble and froth so much that their position in the sky seems to dance around

On this day in 1881 a deranged man shot President Garfield

The Man Who Invented Water Skiing

Ruja Ignatova: The Crypto Mogul Scam Artist Who Vanished into Thin Air

This Comet Could Be One of the Largest We’ve Ever Seen (And It’s Getting Closer to Earth)

The Lottery Lawyer Won Their Trust, Then Lost Their Mega Millions

This Plant Lurks Underground to Trap Prey in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Rise of the dinosaurs traced back to their adaptation to cold

Million Dollar Fakes: The Lucrative World of Counterfeit Basquiats

We Should Be Banking Our Poop for Future Use, Scientists Argue

Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals

Is Music Universal?

Scientists develop first-of-its-kind implant that relieves pain without drugs

The Case of the False Thumb: Giant Panda’s “Amazing” Feature Developed at Least Six Million Years Ago

The Norwegian library with unreadable books

How a free and open Hong Kong became a police state

How Are the Bees?

This bonus episode: 🐝Mutant intersex honeybees, 🐝tools for bees, 🐝cookie monster bee, and more bees!

Found: The ‘holy grail of catalysis’—turning methane into methanol under ambient conditions using light

The Gauntlet: Women wanted to fly jets in combat. It would prove the fight of their lives.

Plant-based plastic strong as PET, degrades into sugars in the environment