Why Do Viruses Exist, Anyway?

A Numerical Mystery From the 19th Century Finally Gets Solved

Mosquitoes at Disney World: why do you (almost) never see them?

The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor

Hidden ‘Hunger Stones’ Reveal Drought Warnings From The Past

38 people found stranded on tiny, unnamed island

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger

Space mission shows Earth’s water may be from asteroids: study

Photos: Severe Drought in Europe

Russia unveils model of proposed space station after leaving ISS

Bizarre Underwater Snow Gives Clues About the Icy Shell of Jupiter’s Moon Europa

Astronomers discovered the earliest known dark matter — and it’s not behaving as predicted

The Fatal Engineering Flaws Behind the Deadliest Dam Failure in History

Some scientists believe the ‘free energy principle’ can explain the behaviour of all living things

See the Bizarre Creatures Living in a Deep-Sea Mountain Range

Starburst galaxy shines in new ‘whirlpool of gold’ photo

How our ancestors survived the doomsday asteroid

Scientists Gave Young Mice The Blood of Old Mice. Then Things Got Weird

Bizarre new armored dinosaur species was a two-legged tank

How It Feels To Chase a Tornado Across Three States

NASA’s Artemis 1 moon megarocket faces final test before rolling out for launch

Disastrous megaflood could cause historic damage in California, study warns

The floating homes of Lake Titicaca

Earth’s Magnetic Poles Are Not Likely To Flip

A new Australian supercomputer has already delivered a stunning supernova remnant pic

On this day in 1984 a lake in Cameroon exploded

Police Used a Baby’s DNA to Investigate Its Father for a Crime

Changing kidney blood type may boost transplants

Radioactive heat in Ceres drove dwarf planet’s geology

Hubble’s Closeup of The Orion Nebula Looks Like a Surreal Dreamscape

The Particle Accelerator Experiment That Could Rewrite the History of the Printing Press

Uniquely preserved medieval kitchen unearthed north of Moravia

China’s “Sky Train” levitates power-free on permanent magnet tracks

Mushrooms are more interesting than you think

45 years ago today SETI received a strong, still inexplicable signal

In a first, researchers produce oxygen from magnets for space exploration

Extreme physics of ‘supercritical’ matter may be surprisingly simple

Reverse-Engineering Insect Brains to Make Robots

What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?

It’s raining PFAS: even in Antarctica and on the Tibetan plateau rainwater is unsafe to drink

James Webb Space Telescope catches ‘impostor’ galaxies red-handed

Video: Life on the Internet: A 13-part television series from 1996

How to verify a photo online and fight the spread of misinformation

Cancer in the Cold

Howard Carter stole Tutankhamun’s treasure, new evidence suggests

Surprise, Surprise: Subsurface Water On Mars Defies Expectations

A Pig and a Locust Get Into Serious Trouble With the Law: On Justice in Medieval Europe

Video: ‘I Was a North Korean Assassin’ [19:24]

World’s oldest ice core could stretch back 5 million years

Listen to the heartbeat of the blue whale, the world’s largest animal

The Moon Stole Something From Deep Inside Earth Eons Ago, and Scientists Can Prove It

Sound Waves Let Researchers Build Stuff With the Force

Scientists recreate the song of long-lost insect to help find it again

According to author and researcher Eric J. Lerner, images from JWST contradict the Big Bang hypothesis

Artificial cornea made from pig collagen gives legally blind 20/20 vision

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If a Clam Can Live to 500, Why Can’t We?

Why NASA Wants to Go Back to the Moon

Why there is a shortage of Dijon mustard in France

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