Photographing the Microscopic: Winners of Nikon Small World 2022

Second world war ‘Ghost Boat’ emerges in California lake, puzzling officials

Geothermal May Beat Batteries for Energy Storage

Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact Triggered a Months Long “Mega-Earthquake,” Research Shows

The 5,000-year history of writer’s block

Blowhole wave energy could soon be world’s cheapest clean power

Galileo confirmed as author of pseudonymous 17th century astronomy text

Pico da Neblina: A sacred peak off-limits for decades

Microbes that cause cavities can form superorganisms able to ‘crawl’ and spread on teeth

Psychiatry wars: the lawsuit that put psychoanalysis on trial

Ancient Mars could have been teeming with microbial life, researchers find

Crimean bridge: Who – or what – caused the explosion?

Police warn Oregon beachgoers about grenades washing ashore

Cops Upload Image of Suspect Generated From DNA, Then Delete After Mass Criticism

Black Holes May Hide a Mind-Bending Secret About Our Universe

“Something Strange Is Going On” – Physicists Answer a Decades-Old Question

‘William Shatner: My Trip to Space Filled Me With Sadness’

Are late dinners making us sick? New research says yes

Archaeologists Dig Up 1,400-Year-Old Native American Canal in Alabama

War in Ukraine, death of the Queen, Elon Musk … why are Nostradamus’s ‘predictions’ still winning converts?

Who invented music? The search for stone flutes, clay whistles and the dawn of song

Iran State TV Channel Hacked to Show Supreme Leader in Crosshairs

How robotic honeybees and hives could help the species fight back

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AI Model Links Smell Molecules With Metabolic Processes

Scientists discovered a new function of the cerebellum

Video: Keeping the world’s longest railroad tunnel safe [5:51]

How philosophy turned into physics – and reality turned into information

How to store data for 1,000 years

“It’s the longest, slowest process that has ever been directly observed, and our dark matter detector was sensitive enough to measure it.”

Could a powerful solar storm wipe out the internet?

CAPSTONE Team Regains Attitude Control of Spacecraft – No Longer Tumbling Through Space

Ancestry of Three Major Animal Groups Revealed by 518-Million-Year-Old Armored Worm

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Beam me down: can solar power from space help solve our energy needs?

How Discovery Channel’s ‘MythBusters’ Helped a Wrongly Convicted Man Prove His Innocence

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Neuroscientists Unravel the Mystery of Why You Can’t Tickle Yourself

Underwater caves, rivers of fire and distant mountain ranges win at the Pano Image awards

Post-impact images of DART mission have not disappointed

80-year-old mystery in static electricity finally solved

A Solar Gravitational Lens Will be Humanity’s Most Powerful Telescope. What are its Best Targets?

The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time

How tardigrades survive freezing temperatures

World-first stem cell therapy trial treats spina bifida before birth

National Gallery confirms one of its Vermeers is actually not a Vermeer

Russia’s bombardment of Ukraine could trigger a Chernobyl-like event. Here’s why

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Japan’s missing children: The lingering trauma of North Korean abductions

Monster waves, mammatus clouds and double rainbows scoop top weather photography prize

Scientists Are Finding Fungi in Cancerous Tumors

Your Dreams May Be Practice For Real Life, According to a Neuroscientist

Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?

Route 66’s glowing mystery orb

Egypt Wants Its Rosetta Stone Back From the British Museum

Two Russians flee Ukraine draft by crossing Bering Sea by boat to Alaska

Do we have free will – and do we want it? Thomas the Tank Engine offers clues

Scientists Discover ‘Cataclysmic’ Pair of Stars That Orbit Each Other in Less Than an Hour

The vital crosstalk between breath and brain