Ultrasound Induces Torpor-Like State in Animals, Experiment Shows

2,700-year-old petroglyphs depicting people, ships and animals discovered in Sweden

LIGO returns: Mind-blowing gravitational wave detectors are back up and running

The ‘exploding’ demand for giant heat pumps

There May Be A Second Kuiper Belt, And New Horizons Is Headed There

This Machine Makes You Hallucinate

The Real Reason Your Groceries Are Getting So Expensive

This Star Exploded So Hard, It Sent Its Core Whizzing Across The Galaxy

James Webb telescope discovers gargantuan geyser on Saturn’s moon, blasting water hundreds of miles into space

On this day in 1832 a mathematician engaged in a deadly duel

Q&A: How DARPA hacked a science writer’s brain and turned her into a sharpshooter

The Mystery of the Disappearing van Gogh

Pet Parrots Who Make Video Calls to Bird Friends Are Less Lonely

First Signs of Rare Higgs Boson Decay Discovered by Physicists

May 29 is a holiday in the USA, which means my kid’s school is closed. But you can find some worthwhile stuff here

Octopuses and squid are masters of RNA editing while leaving DNA intact

What Happens if the Prefrontal Cortex Is Damaged?

The Reversal of Aging May Start in Your Intestines

The Laws That Took Down Mobsters Are Being Turned Against Big Oil

This Stanford Professor With CIA Ties Says Aliens Are ‘100 Percent’ Already Here

This week: 💰Eels as currency, ☀️solar storm timer, 🐌snail education, and more!

Microgravity and medicine: Why we’re testing cancer drugs in space

A real-life little mermaid would be ridiculously hairy, says science

Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings

A brain implant changed her life. Then it was removed against her will.

The Coast-to-Coast American Road Trip Is 120 Years Old

This Was One of the Most Famous Faces of the 17th Century

Weird, Rare, and Everywhere

Hibernation artificially triggered in potential space travel breakthrough

Video: Unboxing Shakespeare’s First Folio [12:39]

‘It’s new territory’: why is Betelgeuse glowing so brightly and behaving so strangely?

Impressively Vibrant Moldscapes

Scientists Working to Generate Electricity From Thin Air Make Breakthrough

On this day in 1940 the Crypt of Civilization was sealed, not to be opened again for 6,177 years

70 years ago today the United States Department of Defense tested atomic artillery

Anesthesia can cause disturbing sexual hallucinations, leading to lasting psychological trauma

The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World

Video: What Killed The Movie Poster? [8:00]

How Global Rice Farming Is Being Transformed by Climate Change

The decline of homeopathy, the ‘medicine’ that doesn’t cure anything

Video: What’s Inside Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks? [14:23]

The Long-Awaited Mission That Could Transform Our Understanding Of Mars

The Precarious, Terrifying Hours After a Woman Was Shoved Into a Train

Video: ‘Nüshu’: The secret language of women in China [05:08]

Here’s why bad news can make you feel physically sick

Black Holes Might Really Be Giant Structures Made of Spacetime, Physicists Propose

Edible CBD coating keeps fruit fresher for longer

FDA approves first gene-edited sausages

The strange survival of Guinness World Records

New map catalogues more than 85,000 volcanoes on Venus

The Battle for Bakhmut, in Photos

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.

Should we abandon the idea that cancer is something to ‘fight’?

A lab deep underground could hold the key to habitability on Mars

A Century of History in Five Hawaiian Prison Newspapers

The neurons that make us feel hangry

Space oddities: The surprising science of hollow ‘rubble pile’ asteroids

NASA: Saturn’s Rings Are Young and Could Quickly Disappear

Element creation in the lab deepens understanding of surface explosions on neutron stars

Hubble Space Telescope reveals rare black hole lurking in our backyard