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Journey to the Center of Earth
Largest Asteroid Crater Ever Discovered Underground in Australia
Deep in Earth’s mantle, scientists find evidence of a colossal impact that could reveal new information about Earth’s history
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Here’s Why Your Eyes Seem to Be Wired ‘Backward’
Light has to pass through nerve cells to get to the rods and cones, but that order is no mistake
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Make Your Mark on Pluto by Helping Name Its Features
The New Horizons team is asking the public for help labeling the maps of Pluto and one of its moons
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Here’s Why the Navy Designed a New Diving Suit
New design spurred by a global helium shortage
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Half of All Local Council Positions in France Will Be Held by Women
Joint tickets with men and women running together will lead to councils balanced by gender
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This 13-Year-Old Girl Just Finished One of the World’s Hardest Rock Climbs
Ashima Shiraishi scaled Spain’s ‘Open Your Mind Direct’ in about ten minutes after a few days working on the project
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Tortoise Defends His Lady in a Super Slow Chase
Here’s what happens when you interrupt two giant reptiles just trying to get in a bit of quality time together
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Found: A Secret Nazi Hideaway in the Heart of an Andean Jungle
Hints of a dark Nazi history found in Argentina
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Got Allergies? Air Pollution Could Be to Blame
New research suggests that ozone and nitrogen dioxide can alter allergens, creating more potent immune responses
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What’s Causing This Village’s Weird Sleeping Sickness Epidemic?
About a quarter of residents in a small town in Kazakhstan have fallen into a deep sleep for days at a time—and no one knows why
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530 Years Later, Richard III Gets a Royal Reburial
The king’s remains, which were found buried beneath a Leicester parking lot, will be reinterred this week
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Trouble Remembering Passwords? Charles Dickens May Be Able Help
A programmer has devised a creative “password generation scheme” using A Tale of Two Cities
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The Rules of Wrinkling, From Brain Folds to Pumpkin Ridges
Creases, ridges, folds and “delaminated buckles” are all different forms of wrinkling
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Mystery Mammals’ Ancestry Was Revealed by Proteins, Not DNA
The huge rhino-like animal and trunked llama-like animal posed a mystery until now
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Every Year Spring Gets 30 Seconds Shorter
But the good news is that summer will be that much longer thanks to some peculiarities in how the Earth moves
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Numbers Don’t Lie: The CD Really Is Dead
Streaming revenues surpass CD revenues for the first time ever
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There’s a Good Reason Why People Really Hate Paying Their Taxes
In a word: corporations
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Here’s What The Solar Eclipse Looked Like From Space
As they orbited the earth, a satellite and an astronaut captured another side of the sun’s disappearing act
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