Scientists Create New Material Five Times Lighter and Four Times Stronger Than Steel

The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet

How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024

How an Amateur Diver Became a True-Crime Sensation

The Tigris: The river that birthed civilisation

Inside the Wagner Group’s Armed Uprising

Pay dirt for ice core scientists in East Greenland as they reach bedrock

Mother of 3 woke from a coma thinking she was 15. Years of her life are still out of memory’s reach

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Three Ancient Roman Coins That Were Part of a Hoard Found in the U.K. Were Mysteriously Swapped With Other, More Valuable Coins

Hiroshima attack marks its 78th anniversary – its lessons of unnecessary mass destruction could help guide future nuclear arms talks

Banished to a Remote Idaho Valley, Beavers Created a Lush Wetland

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OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to Venus by 2050

Excavations Uncover Hints of Nero’s Theater in Rome, and Much More

Could Earth ever become a rogue planet?

The Bizarrely Unbalanced Early Universe Might Explain Why We Exist

Video: Storing dead people at -196°C [5:35]

Born without arms, French horn player Felix Klieser uses his feet to play

The PLATO Mission Could be the Most Successful Planet Hunter Ever

Nanotech used to grow eye cells as a potential treatment for blindness

Cracking the curry recipe: Iconic dish was introduced to Southeast Asia about 2,000 years ago

This Ancient Weapon Was Made From an Object That Fell Out of The Sky

Kent scientists climb cathedral roofs to collect cosmic dust

Extraordinary photos of July’s extreme weather

New Simulation Reveals the Churning Interiors of Giant Stars

Why Do Cats Knead?

Moon mining gains momentum as private companies plan for a lunar economy

Astronomers are Watching a Planet Get its Atmosphere Blasted Away into Space

The Mystery of the Colorado River’s Missing Water

Scientists Say Textbooks Are Wrong About How Life Exploded on Earth

Women Hunters Were Extremely Common in Ancient and Modern-Day Foraging Societies

Quake it off: Taylor Swift fans generate seismic activity during Seattle shows

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European satellite plunges back to Earth in first-of-its-kind assisted re-entry

Melting Swiss glacier uncovers climber missing since 1986

Why Dunkin’ and Lego rebrands succeeded – but X missed the mark

A 46,000-year-old worm found in Siberian permafrost was brought back to life, and started having babies

Reddit calls for “a few new mods” after axing, polarizing some of its best

A series of planned commands sent to NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft July 21 inadvertently caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth

Ukraine moves Christmas date to 25 December in snub to Russia

Fly-ing solo: scientists discover genetic on-switch for “virgin birth” in fruit flies

Officials bust illegal lab containing 20 infectious agents, hundreds of lab mice

Billions of Years Ago, the Milky Way May Have Looked Like a Lentil — and It Could Again

The ingenious tricks animals use to survive wildfires

Pico Cão Grande Is One of the Most Astounding Peaks on the Planet

Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct

Scientists asked people to pretend they were art thieves. Here’s what they learned about memory

Petrified trees reveal Yellowstone geyser’s ongoing battle with drought

On this day in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building

The absurdity of emergence

Scientists Resurrected an Extinct Animal Frozen for 46,000 Years in Siberia

Emperor Nero’s lost theatre found under site of hotel in Rome

Bizarre True Story: Physicists Once Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator

Bees and wasps independently invent the same architectural tricks

Is Star Trek’s Warp Drive Possible?

This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold

Isles of Scilly remains are iron age female warrior, scientists say

Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

Hep C has a secret strategy to evade the immune system. And now we know what it is