Photos: Drought Conditions Drop the Mississippi River to Historic Lows

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Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years

Something spooky is happening at the edge of the solar system

Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on: new papers reveal how close the world came to nuclear disaster

NASA’s InSight Lander Detects Stunning Meteoroid Impact on Mars

New original Damn Interesting article/episode by Jennifer Lee Noonan: The Rube’s Dilemma

Why More and More Girls Are Hitting Puberty Early

Can the Latest M1 Abrams Tank Outgun China’s and Russia’s Most Advanced Battle Tanks?

NASA Engineers Are Building an Ingenious Heat Shield That Inflates in Space

Scientists Manipulate Dreams With Sound to Help Nightmare Sufferers

Magnetic bacteria steered into tumors to plant anti-cancer drugs

Walking Streetlamps for Hire in Seventeenth-Century London

How the California Gold Rush Destroyed Whatever Peace Existed in the American West

Archaeologists unearth 2,700-year-old rock carvings in Iraq

How Genes Can Leap From Snakes to Frogs in Madagascar

New Discovery Expands Tree of Life

“Spontaneous Revolutions”: Darwin’s Diagrams of Plant Movement

Aastha Arora: Where is India’s billionth baby now?

London woman found guilty of decapitating friend over inheritance

Go inside the Great Pyramid at Giza

Enheduanna: The world’s first named author

A history of twins in science

Should We Really Be Messing with Asteroid Orbits?

Megalopolis: how coastal west Africa will shape the coming century

When is a lynching a lynching?

Thumb-sized microscope captures images deep inside the brains of active animals

The Young Woman Behind a Last Mystery of the Green River Killer

The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt

Researchers Use Quantum ‘Telepathy’ to Win an ‘Impossible’ Game

Webb Offers Never-Before-Seen Details of Early Universe

YouTuber Uses AI to Create a Girlfriend Who Doesn’t Exist

The 120-year search for the purpose of T. rex’s arms

Authorities ‘actively investigating’ after woman claims her late father was a prolific serial killer

Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Found in Melting Tibetan Glaciers

Can Experiencing Horror Help Your Brain?

Radioactive traces in tree rings reveal Earth’s history of unexplained ‘radiation storms’

‘My small, doomed stand against Thatcher’s war on truth’

How Food Powers Your Body

Explorers finally solve the mystery of an unidentified object near the Titanic wreck

Mystery of Earth’s Missing Mineral Has Been Solved in a Hot New Experiment

There’s a Fascinating Reason These Astronauts’ Eyes Look So Strange

Asteroid Ryugu was born out in the cold, in the solar system’s earliest days

Images of Diwali: The Festival of Lights

Video: Rare Access Inside a Diving Nuclear Submarine [20:43]

Video: What causes sleepwalking? [5:31]

Uvalde survivor is a voice for her slain friends. She’s 10 years old.

Purified Sand Particles Have Anti-Obesity Effects, Scientists Confirm

The danger of advanced artificial intelligence controlling its own feedback

How scientists want to make you young again

Mystery Car Full of Concrete Exhumed in Silicon Valley

NASA’s UFO panel convenes to study unclassified sightings

Protons may be stretchier than physics predicts

Immune system-evading hybrid virus observed for first time

Space station dodges debris from Russian anti-satellite test

Scientists design algorithm that ‘reads’ people’s thoughts from brain scans

Pig vomit toxin key to Martian meteorite mystery

‘World’s dirtiest man’ dies in Iran at 94 a few months after first wash

Swarming bees may potentially change the weather, new study suggests

NASA’s DART asteroid crash: What scientists have learned about Dimorphos so far