The Spaghetti Tree Hoax: Inside the 1957 BBC’s April Fools Joke That Caused A Nationwide Uproar

University Enrolling AI-Powered “Students” Who Will Turn in Assignments, Participate in Class Discussions

Sperm whales found to live in large, matrilineally based clans

Why some of us are more susceptible to hypnotism than others

NASA postpones moon landing until at least 2026 due to problems with private spacecraft

Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon

While Hiding From the Nazis in an Attic, a Jewish Man Created 95 Issues of a Satirical Magazine

Plant roots mysteriously pulsate and we don’t know why – but finding out could change the way we grow things

James Webb Space Telescope spots hint of mysterious aurora over ‘failed star’

Nube, the almost invisible galaxy that challenges the dark matter model

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The Ban on Japanese Aircraft Pilots, 1945–1952

Coal miners in North Dakota unearth a mammoth tusk buried for thousands of years

Something Old, Something Pneu

Who Was the Mysterious Woman Buried Alone at the Pet Cemetery?

After Two Decades Undercover, She’s Ready to Tell the Real Story of Human Trafficking

Swarming Proxima Centauri: Coherent Picospacecraft Swarms Over Interstellar Distances

US Navy sailor jailed for passing military blueprints, plans to China

Earth and the Moon are proportional partners, and that might be rare

Two Alien Minerals Unknown to Earth Found in Meteorite

Study says you should really get that secret off your chest

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Housekeeping robot quickly learns a range of autonomous chores

How modern scientists solved the centuries-old mystery of Copernicus’s lost grave

Cells Across the Body Talk to Each Other About Aging

2 years since James Webb Telescope opened up, this is what it’s taught us about the universe

Seasonal affective disorder: How the dark days of January shape your mood, intelligence and sex drive

Escape from Mariupol: how one Ukrainian soldier fled the Azovstal steelworks against the odds

The Scientist Using Bugs to Help Solve Murders

‘I thought my great-aunt was just a gentle oddball – then I discovered her secret role in the Austrian resistance’

Giant iron rings might hold clues about young solar systems

California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland

Meet the Con Artist Who Deceived the Front Range Tech Community

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Galaxies in the Early Universe Were Shaped Like Bananas, Study Suggests

This Lego-like Florida apartment complex was built by 11 people

California’s “singing” fish have a surprising relationship to mammals, study finds

The last of the Moon men: the stories of the surviving Apollo astronauts

Defying Gravity: Scientists Solve Mystery of Magnetic Hovering Beyond Classical Physics

Floating ‘magic islands’ on Saturn’s moon Titan may be ‘honeycomb’ snows

The Mystery of the Coin That Shouldn’t Exist

Mouse secretly filmed tidying man’s shed every night

Scientists Destroy Illusion That Coin Toss Flips Are 50–50

Before a door plug flew off a Boeing plane, an advisory light came on 3 times

The spider-tailed horned viper finds its meals by moving nothing but the tip of its tail

Images From the Wildlife Photographer of the Year Contest

World-first study of WWI battle site highlights British blunder

A passenger drone in China could herald flying cars

This week: Tucked embryo, scratch castle, vibrating cancer cells, and more!

World’s whitest insect spurs energy-saving ceramic design

The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat

Gardi Sugdub: The Americas’ disappearing island

Shock of the old: 10 painful and poisonous beauty treatments

What a gorilla named Lia taught scientists about human facial expressions

After all of This Time Searching for Aliens, is it The Zoo Hypothesis or Nothing?

NASA Spacecraft Preparing to Attempt “Basically Landing” on the Sun

Scientists find the deep cause of long COVID fatigue

Deep Beneath Earth’s Surface, Clues to Life’s Origins

Consumer Reports finds ‘widespread’ presence of plastics in food

One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is hiding a second galaxy behind it, new research reveals