Sweden has long opposed nuclear weapons – but it once tried to build them

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Boeing Starliner spacecraft rolls out to Atlas V rocket ahead of 1st astronaut launch (photos)

Watch hundreds of teenagers grow up into adults – and see how their lives turn out

Tokyo’s Public Toilets Will Leave New Yorkers Sobbing

How to Publish a Magazine in a Maximum-Security Prison

The Life and Death of Hollywood

How logic alone may prove that time doesn’t exist

The Winchcombe meteor was repeatedly torn apart and reformed, according to newly released analysis

Cats Are Finally Having a Big Hollywood Meow-Ment

Astronomers discover Milky Way’s biggest stellar black hole – 33 times size of sun

Marketing myths the supplement industry wants you to swallow

A brief weird history of brainwashing

They Experimented on Themselves in Secret. What They Discovered Helped Win a War

A Crew Is Extracting the Holy Grail of Shipwrecks, Loaded With Billions in Lost Treasure

Birds sing in their sleep – and now we can decipher their dreams

Are Flying Cars Finally Here?

Low-frequency Noise is Pervasive. Does That Matter?

Discovery of the first fractal molecule in nature

Titanic survivor recalls disaster: ‘I shall probably dream about it tonight’

Astrophysicists solve mystery of heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto

Scientists Reveal Where Most ‘Hospital’ Infections Actually Come From

Startup That Selects Embryos with Good Genes Says It’s Not Doing Eugenics

San Francisco’s Train System Still Uses Floppy Disks—and Will for Years

Video: ‘I Was the Highest-Paid Dancer at America’s No. 1 Strip Club’ [10:52]

Why Are Some People Left-Handed? Scientists Identify Rare Genetic Variants That May Be Linked to the Trait

The ski resorts saving snow over the summer

Video: What NASA Is Looking For In Yellowstone National Park [6:59]

Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?

The Industrial Revolution and the Rise of Policing

Did Ancient South Americans Keep Foxes as Pets?

What If the Big Bang Never Happened? A Controversial Theory, Explained

Video: Magic Chess Tours (with Knights and Kings) [11:57]

Space Junk Hunters Close in on Spent Rocket Stage From 2009 Mission

Human brains and fruit fly brains are built similarly – visualizing how helps researchers better understand how both work

Was Ian Brady truly “born evil”?

World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe

Studies find a link between having older brothers and being gay. Does it matter?

This marine alga is the first known eukaryote to pull nitrogen from air

The hero tax: Why ‘selfless’ workers are professionally exploited

The Exceptional Golden Sahara II Concept Car Had Luminous Tires and a Cocktail Bar

Northrop Grumman Shows Off Terrifying Military Drone Submarine

Paleontologists discover three new species of massive fossil kangaroos. One is double the size of today’s red kangaroo

Mercury: The Solar System’s smallest planet may once have been as large as Earth

This Freaky Worm Has ‘Outstanding Vision’, And Scientists Don’t Know Why

World’s oldest living conjoined twins die in Pennsylvania, aged 62

The Tiny Ultrabright Laser that Can Melt Steel

Why do some people always get lost?

NASA’s About to Make a Big Announcement About Mars. Here’s What We Know.

The Town That Kept Its Nuclear Bunker a Secret for Three Decades

Unlocking Flow: The Neuroscience of Creative Bliss

She Fought Nobly: Cathay Williams, the First Black Woman Soldier

Geothermal promises to become a much more versatile energy source thanks to new technologies

Mysterious symbols found near footprints shed light on ancient humans’ awareness of dinosaurs, scientists say

When the brain has trouble filtering incoming information and predicting what’s likely to happen, psychosis can result, Stanford Medicine-led research shows

San Francisco woman describes tow truck trying to nab her moving car

Fish Swim in Schools for Stealth–as 100 Fish Make Less Noise Than an Individual Swimming Alone

Revealed: the artwork sneaked into a German gallery by an employee – and the story behind it

Scientists find blue light makes buildings more deadly to migrating birds

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