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Did Life on Earth Really Start 4.1 Billion Years Ago? Not So Fast
Don’t rewrite the Earth’s history just yet
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The Orionid Meteor Shower and Rare Planetary “Dance” Make This a Lucky Week for Stargazers
Here’s what the night sky has to offer this week
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Google Books Isn’t Copyright Infringement
A landmark court ruling allows the tech giant digitize library books
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The Sunken Ruins of a 450-Year-Old Church Rise From a Mexican Reservoir
After a historic drought, a 16th-century church has reemerged
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This Giant Van Gogh Painting Is Made of Pumpkins, Watermelons and Squash
How crop artist Stan Herd made an acre-wide ode to “Olive Trees”
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Air Force One is Getting a Makeover
The best presidential perk is about to get even better
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The Search For Elusive Neutrinos in Antarctica Generates Massive Amounts of Data
The IceCube observatory at the South Pole collects roughly 36 terabytes of data a year in the search for ‘special’ neutrinos
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Venomous Sea Snake Washes Up on California Beach, and El Niño May Be to Blame
The lost sea snake isn’t the only problem the California can expect to face during a strong El Niño year
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Where Do Hallucinations Come From? It May Just Be What You’ve Seen
It may be our brains overriding what is there with what it expects to see, according to new research
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This Is What 14,000,000,000 Years of History Looks Like
A designer’s ingenious timeline covers the Big Bang to the Internet
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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake
Doubts surrounded the incriminating photo since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963
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New Video of Floating Blobs of Fizzy Water in Space
Microgravity is the best place to figure out why raindrops are round
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Lego Superfans Built This Epic Model of Hadrian’s Wall
The edge of the Roman Empire, recreated with tiny toy blocks
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Falcons Protect This Deep Space Antenna
Nesting birds and their droppings can keep space scientists’ telescopes from getting a clear signal
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Stunning New Views of Enceladus, Saturn’s 6th-Largest Moon
A new flyby has revealed a spidery network of cracks crisscrossing its northern pole
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Why a Denmark Zoo Publicly Dissected a Lion
The zookeepers say it is an educational opportunity
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When You Space Out, Parts of Your Brain go to Sleep
Midday drowsiness might mean you’re already drifting off
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Prosthetics Could Soon Have a Sense of Touch
A technology suprisingly inspired by Darth Vader
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See at a Bee’s Eye Level With 9 Award-Winning Microscopic Photos
The winners of Nikon’s annual photomicrography competition have an eye for detail
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