The big idea: Why the laws of physics will never explain the universe

How an eccentric English tech guru helped guide Allende’s socialist Chile

NASA Unveils an X-Plane They Hope Will Save Earth

Play The Nimatron, The World’s First Video Game Invented in 1930s New York

What’s in a hot dog? Beef, pork, and a complicated history of class dynamics

Remember the ‘Gimli Glider’? This couple does — he was the pilot and she was a passenger

Why do spiders have 8 legs?

What would happen if we stopped fishing?

‘No more cover-up’: Nazi concentration camps on Channel Island finally to be officially investigated

Dogs in this French town will have their DNA tested to crack down on poo problem

We Just Discovered What Actually Changes The Size of Your Pupils

40 years ago today a passenger liner ran out of fuel mid-flight

Asteroid sample incoming: OSIRIS-REx team preps for September landing of Bennu bits

How can contemporary biographers contend with the explosion of materials at their disposal?

Centuries on, Newton’s gravitational constant still can’t be pinned down

This week: Anti-bird nests, yeast overlords, Coriolis lies, and more!

GPS satellites may be able to detect earthquakes before they happen

A massive galaxy with no dark matter?

The Chicago Mob vs. the World’s Fair

World’s largest 3D-printed housing development reveals completed model home

Lawn and Order: Green Spaces for a Better Society

How Many Dinosaurs Remain Undiscovered?

Trinity Nuclear Test’s Fallout Reached 46 States, Canada and Mexico, Study Finds

Carl Sagan’s personal Golden Record tapes go on the block

Mercury’s X-Ray Aurora Proves It’s The Most Goth Planet

Zooming across time and space simultaneously with superresolution to understand how cells divide

Did That Message Come From Earth or Space? Now SETI Researchers can be Sure

Video: The Shipwreck That Brought The US Into WWI [49:44]

Thanks to ‘Galactic Noise,’ We’re Still Hunting for the First Stars in Our Universe

Malibu Stacy: The Untold Story of ‘The Simpsons’ vs. Barbie

Some Humans Create This Temporary, Alien Organ Which Has Baffled Scientists Until Now

Hubble sees boulders escaping from asteroid Dimorphos

Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract at least three papers

Prehistoric people in Spain mastered climbing with rope ladders around 7,500 years ago

James Webb Space Telescope detects interstellar dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

How Apollo 11 inspired NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson

New Toothpaste Study Reveals a Viable Alternative to Fluoride

Sex in space: why it’s worrying that the space tourism sector hasn’t considered the consequences

Self-healing metal? It’s not just the stuff of science fiction

Inside This Extraordinary Living Lab

Why Einstein Was Not Part of the Manhattan Project

They all have a 50-50 chance of inheriting a cruel genetic mutation — which means disappearing into dementia in middle age. This is the story of what it’s like to live with those odds.

Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988

Typo leaks millions of US military emails to Mali web operator

Study Reveals the Best Place to Stand in Your House During a Nuclear Attack

Gizmodo Owner Vows to Keep Publishing AI-Generated Articles After Error-Filled Debut

Kitchen shrine serpents and more fascinating new Pompeii discoveries

First contact with aliens could end in colonization and genocide if we don’t learn from history

Can Wikipedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead

Video: Fiery crash as passenger train ploughs into truck in Indonesia [00:34]

Medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. How many studies are faked or flawed?

The Psychology Behind Playing Hard-to-Get: Is It Effective?

Two-faced star exposed: Unusual white dwarf with a hydrogen side and a helium side

Autonomous, omnidirectional hamster ball robot can fly over obstacles

Scientists discover ‘glitched’ neutron star that obliterated an asteroid, then fired off a brilliant explosion

Scientists discover ancient, underwater volcano is still active — and covered in up to a million giant eggs

What the automation of telephone operators tells us about AI’s effect on work

JWST Just Detected Carbon in The Cosmic Dawn… Before We Thought Carbon Was Possible

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