Why Venus Is Soon to Be the Most Exciting Place in the Solar System

Aging Hubble Space Telescope in Safe Mode Following Computer Glitch

NASA’s ‘Moonikin’ Will Boldly Go Where No Test Dummy Has Gone Before

Mirrors That Detect Ripples in Space-Time Were Frozen to Near Absolute Zero

New Quantum Microscope Can See Tiny Structures in Living Cells

Scientists Have Created Bite-Size, Edible Models to Help Kids With Blindness Learn Chemistry

Coffee Is Good for You, Coffee Is Bad for You

New Vaccine Failure Reminds Us How Much Worse Things Could Be Right Now

Lots of People Don't Want Kids and Are Happy About It, Survey Finds

Ghostly Deep Sea Fish Surprises Scientists Again—It Can Live for 100 Years

Newly Discovered Giant Rhino Fossil Defies the Imagination

CDC to Ban Dogs From 113 Countries for a Year Over Rabies Fears

Extremely Sexy Pointy Shoes Warped the Feet of Medieval Europeans

Polynesians Discovered Antarctica Over 1,300 Years Ago, New Research Suggests

Ice Age Cave Bear With Hole in Its Skull May Have Been Stabbed by Ancient Humans

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies

Artificial Human Genomes Could Help Overcome Research Privacy Concerns

The Mystery of the Watermelon's Origins May Have Been Solved

Scientists Dive Into Axolotl Genome, Looking for Secrets to Regeneration

Airborne DNA Could Help Scientists Find Elusive Animals

The UK’s New Animal Welfare Plan Is Both Very Good and Not Nearly Enough

Dogs and Dingoes Are Not Boning

This ‘Map of Life’ Shows Where Undiscovered Species May Be Lurking

Lava Tube 'Astronauts' Are Preparing for Mars on a Hawaiian Volcano

Scientists Cook Hot Dogs in Lava From Iceland's Erupting Volcano

How to Survive Social Media After You've Been Dumped

A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits

VTubing Is More Than Just Livestreaming With Cute Anime Avatars

Stop Using Dark Mode

How Transforming My Apartment Into an Indoor Farm Turned Into a Very Bad Idea

The Space Shuttle Was a Beautiful—but Terrible—Idea

How Humanity Could Last Forever

Cryonics, Dakota the Dog, and the Hope of Forever

The Ouroboros, From Antiquity to AI

Scientists Find Over 300 'Huge' Viruses With Strange Abilities

'Puzzling' Virus Found in Brazil Has Genetic Material Not Seen in Anything Else

How Juno's Breathtaking Jupiter Images Are Made

MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel

This Moon Machete Didn't Turn Me Into an Astronaut, But It Did Murder My Boss's Weeds

The Weird Ways NASA Thought Moon Dust Might Kill Apollo Astronauts

Breathtaking Simulation Recreates Neil Armstrong’s View of the Apollo 11 Landing

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

How Mold Kills

The Psychology of Faking Your Own Death

The Many Ways Lightning Can Kill You