News Over 1 million people join Facebook event to ‘storm area 51’ and ‘see them aliens’ July 15, 2019
Offbeat Supermarkets in Thailand start using leaves as packaging instead of plastic May 22, 2019 - Updated on May 5, 2020
Fossil Friday Fossil Friday: Alcmonavis poeschli, the second-oldest bird we’ve ever found May 18, 2019
Biology Fossil Friday: earliest known millipede found in piece of Burmese amber May 3, 2019 - Updated on February 9, 2024
Fossil Friday Fossil Friday: newly-discovered Callichimaera perplexa is an adorable, weird crab April 26, 2019
Fossil Friday Fossil Friday: massive, ancient African carnivore found in a drawer in Kenya April 19, 2019
Art Two of the world’s oldest universities team up to digitize treasured medieval manuscripts April 17, 2019
Astronomy This is what the photographed black hole’s “neighborhood” looks like April 12, 2019 - Updated on November 24, 2023
Archaeology Fossil Friday: new study says Texas used to be a ‘veritable Serengeti’ 11 to 12 million years ago April 12, 2019 - Updated on April 24, 2019
Biology Fossil Friday: Jurassic crocodile shows us how the scaly killers came to be April 5, 2019 - Updated on August 24, 2023
Offbeat These “Night-Sky” petunias look like they hold galaxies in their petals April 3, 2019 - Updated on April 5, 2019
Other Thousand-year-old illustrated manuscript of herbal remedies now available online March 26, 2019 - Updated on March 27, 2019
Technology New AI turns simple doodles into photorealistic landscapes — within seconds March 20, 2019
Economics An empty home tax could be more effective than building new homes, new study concludes February 14, 2019
Offbeat Japanese hotel fires robots to replace them with humans January 31, 2019 - Updated on August 23, 2023
Economics The 26 richest people own more than 50% of the planet — and the gap is widening January 23, 2019 - Updated on January 24, 2019
Economics US Government shutdown hits hard at scientists — and research in general January 8, 2019 - Updated on January 10, 2019
Economics Americans are happier in states that spend more on public goods like libraries and parks January 8, 2019
Economics Populist leaders are threatening democracy, researchers warn January 2, 2019 - Updated on March 3, 2019
Offbeat Germany’s word of the year is a climate change pun December 18, 2018 - Updated on April 25, 2019
Animals Young Hawaiian seals are showing up with eels stuck in their noses — and we’re not really sure why December 7, 2018