Juno captures the closest-ever pictures of Jupiter we’ve seen — and its hair-raising voice
We've never seen anything like this before.
Celebrating life one awesome picture at a time: the Welcome Image Awards 2016
Big science going on at the small scale.
Farmer ants still struggle with undomesticated crops, study finds
Starving your crops might seem counterintuitive, but these ants have a pretty good reason for it.
Forensic experts reconstruct the face of a 2,300 year old Egyptian mummy
This is the closest we've come to seeing an ancient Egyptian woman.
Robotic surveillance without enforcement isn’t enough to stop people from stealing, a new study found
To be fair, students will do insane things for food.
A new VR service launches today and promises the full girlfriend experience
Knowing the Internet, I'm surprised it took this long.
Miami Beach mosquitoes are carrying Zika, tests confirm
They're a really tough species to fight.
Milky Way’s missing matter traced back to an explosion in its core 6 million years ago
It's not the full picture, but its a lot more than we knew before.
An antibody that clears Alzheimer’s patients’ brains of plaque could be the treatment we’ve been waiting for
Clean brain, clean memories.
The planet is warming faster than it ever has in the last 1,000 years, NASA warns
This is not good news.
The Red Light Forest – Prostitution in the Animal World
For pebbles, meat, or nectar, these animals found that nothing sells quite as well as sex.
NASA plans to send an autonomous submarine into space — for a very good reason
The sub will be used to explore Titan's oceans.
Study found human habitation promoted forest growth in British Columbia over the past 13,000 years
These trees shellfishly used the First Nations' trash to grow.
Scientists believe humans have started a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene
It's a new time -- geologically speaking, at least.
The U.S. plans to build the most advanced fusion reactor ever
Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.
Fossil Friday: C. Megalodon, the true Jaws
The biggest fish in the pond.
The Greenland ice sheet is losing some 270 billion tons of ice each year, a new study finds
Knowing how much water gets melted into the oceans will help us estimate the impact of rising sea levels.
The American pika is being killed off by climate change
They may be the cutest animal in the country, but we're cooking the d'awww out of them.
An Israeli power plant worker might have found a hand grenade that the Crusaders used
It probably didn't go boom, but it's still an impressive find.
Letter signed by 154 Australian experts calls for the Land Down Under to step up its game
Policy and scientific fact don't match, and the researchers urge for change.
The first self-driving taxis are here — and by “here” I mean Singapore
A small start-up brought self-driving taxies to the streets.
Berkley’s penny-per-ounce soda tax paid off, a new study reports
This could have significant fiscal and health benefits.
Spanish publisher wins rights to a manuscript no one can — but everyone is dying to — read
So it's like the opposite of a college textbook, then?
NASA re-establishes contact with the STEREO-B spacecraft after 22 months
It just needed some space...
Why the first, tiny offshore wind farm in the U.S. is a huge step forward
These five turbines signal a change through out the country.
OpenAI will use Reddit and a new supercomputer to teach artificial intelligence how to speak
There's no "forum" in "AI" but Musk thinks there should be.
Giant zeppelin could change how we think about air transportation
Old tech to solve modern problems.
Fish urine keeps corals healthy, but we’re taking all the fish out of the water
Does this mean I have to pee in the pool now?
Relying too much on the Internet for fact finding could hurt your brain
Just like anything else, it needs constant exercise to stay in shape.
3 facts about water that prove it doesn’t play by the rules
We drink it, we bathe in it, but it's stranger than you'd think.
First peer review paper on chemtrails finds exactly what you’d expect — it’s all pseudoscience
Of course, it could just be The Government covering up. Spooky stuff.
Good fathers’ testosterone level drops when expecting a baby
From horny freshmen to hugs and pacifiers, testosterone powers every man's relationships.
Coral bleaching has been captured on video for the first time
They don't seem to be having a good time.
Over-consumption is more deadly to Earth’s wildlife than climate change
We use so much of everything so fast that it's literally killing the planet.
New measurement of a proton leaves us with more questions than answers
We just can't seem to determine exactly how tiny they are.
Orangutans can tell if a drink tastes good or bad just by looking at it — once thought a ‘human thing’
They're more than the simple animals we consider them to be.
A colony of bees has been discovered living in the lip of an active volcano
They face acid, lava, and ash every day.
Meet Chuño, a space worthy food that the Incas made eight centuries ago
It's got an impressive shelf-life for something you prepare by leaving outside for a few nights then stomping on it.
Douglas fir forests are buckling under the heat, pausing their growth altogether
Silly trees, can't they set the thermostat lower, like the rest of us?
Newly developed nanomaterial looks like an anti-bacterial spike pit — but your cells can comfortably live on it
Named black silicon, the material literally stabs bacteria to death.
Only about half your friends actually consider you a friend
It's not you, it's them. Well, it's you a bit, too.
Inmates who watch nature shows in prison are 26% less aggressive than their counterparts
In a world of cages and violence, a glimpse of nature can make a huge difference.
The Types of Fossils and Other Rock-solid Fossil Facts
Bones to stones.
Earth Overshoot Day is here, folks, a full five days earlier than last year
Don't get your party hats out.
Venus could once have been a very welcoming planet, NASA study found
Now? Not so much.
We’ve finally discovered how birds can sleep and fly at the same time without crashing
Frigatebirds spend weeks at a time flying over oceans in search for food -- here's how they sleep during this...
A private company plans to land on the moon, but what will this precedent mean for space exploration?
Moon Express is going to the Moon -- if we can solve the paperwork.