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Evidence the universe might not be expanding

Where Is the Sunniest Spot on Earth? – Scientists Discovered It

World’s 1st ‘boomerang meteorite’ — a rock that left Earth, spent millennia in space, then returned — possibly discovered in the Sahara Desert

Nasa briefly loses contact with ISS after power outage and relies on backup systems for first time

How Absolute Space and Sense of Direction Affect Different Languages

Ancient interloper star may have helped kickstart life on Earth

The Master Camouflage of the Dead Leaf Butterfly

How baby planets are made: Planetary precursors revealed in stunning new space image

Video: Why Americans love big cars [10:41]

A Squishy Sea Creature Regenerates a Body from a Severed Head

Video: How Diamond Heists Actually Work [18:27]

How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions

New study shows how extreme fish survive with antifreeze in their blood

Video: Science vs. Pseudoscience [5:47]

A bookkeeper stole $7.6 million from her employer. How did no one notice?

A Transformative Moment in the History of Fishing: On Catching the Largest Tuna Ever Recorded

Barbie’s surprising role in Moon exploration

A Hidden Line Deep in The Ocean Divides Animals Into Two Camps

There Could be Trillions of Rogue Planets Wandering the Milky Way

Ancient Human Burials Featured in Netflix Doc Spark a Scientific Controversy

Light pollution is the easiest pollution to fix — so why aren’t we doing it?

Mystery of Crusader’s Sword Found at Bottom of Sea Finally Solved

This Mess of Boulders Was Deposited by an Ancient River on Mars

After bopping an asteroid 3 years ago, NASA will finally see the results

How does light slow down?

The Shiniest Planet Has Clouds of Metal and Glass

These ultra-detailed images show exactly what’s living in your gut – and it’s surprisingly beautiful

Why are some people so competitive? The psychology of competitiveness

40 years ago, the US started sending more and more kids to prison without hope of release, but today, it’s far more rare – what happened?

Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal

Push-button flying car now authorized by both FAA and DMV

Weary Soldiers, Unreliable Munitions: Ukraine’s Many Challenges

Researchers Find ‘Backdoor’ in Encrypted Police and Military Radios

Elephants that once threatened Rome could help save their descendants

The Catfished Terrorist

A Small-Town Paper Lands a Very Big Story

The ‘Immortal Jellyfish’ Can Age in Reverse And Possibly Live Forever

Boomerang meteorite may be the 1st space rock to leave Earth and return

When Greenland was green: Ancient soil from beneath a mile of ice offers warnings for the future

No-kill chicken tastes like chicken. Because it is.

Mammalian Anomaly: The Secret Armor of African Spiny Mice

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?