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- 3rd
- 09:42 am
Things will be quieter than usual around here for the US Independence Day weekend
10:59 amMites Live on Your Face, And They're Starting to Merge With Humans
11:01 amThe Botched Train Robbery That Changed American Forensics
11:08 am250 years of US independence: Why France supported American Revolutionaries
02:51 pmPotentially Habitable Super-Earth Found Just 25 Light-Years Away
04:52 pmThese Male Fruit Flies Have Sperm That Are Nearly as Long as Their Bodies. Here’s How the Cells Don’
05:25 pmHe sent a harsh email to ICE's top official. 5 months later, federal agents tracked him down
05:26 pmThis Extraordinary Desert Mouse Defies Aging – and It Could Change Human Longevity
05:28 pmThis week: Yogi Bear's abode, hookworm therapy, nuclear lost and found, and more!
05:42 pmThe Tech Founder Creating an Army of AI Influencers
05:52 pmDo whales fart?
- 5th
- 09:45 am
America at 500: Where will we be in space in 2276?
09:52 amWhy Antarctica froze millions of years before the Arctic – new research
09:55 amNo AI for Al. "Weird Al" Yankovic yanks AI commercial
10:09 amColorful songbirds face higher risk of extinction
10:12 amNASA’s Curiosity Rover is Investigating Unusual Polygon Structures That Look Like a “Giant Martian H
10:29 am400,000-year-old intact cave found in Israel sheds light on pre-Neanderthal era
12:19 pmCan we save the hammerhead shark from extinction?
12:36 pm'I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain—until I met him.'
12:41 pmTitan, Saturn’s Largest Moon, Could Become a ‘Gas Station’ for Deep Space Missions
01:17 pm'Separate in name and power': How America reinvented English
01:22 pmHobbit-like humans may have scavenged Komodo dragons’ leftovers to survive
02:57 pmCosmic dust could play key role in cracking long-standing mystery of solar corona heating
06:16 pmMysterious debris found on Queensland beaches could be ‘space balls’ – and may contain toxic rocket
- 6th
- 08:21 am
'I never had the feeling that I was flush in cash': How J Paul Getty became the world's richest man
08:24 amA Bird’s Brain Holds Clues to the Sounds of Music
08:27 amDoes leisure make us happy? Often the answer is no.
08:32 amOn this day in 2012, Unesco added Bali's Subak System to the World Heritage List
08:36 amDaddy longlegs seen catching and eating frogs in astonishing first
09:20 amAstronomers discover radio signals coming from rare 'Blue Eye Pulsar' after decades of silence
09:32 amBoth Japan and China had intriguing asteroid encounters this weekend
09:58 amVideo: The nature of war: Ukraine birds weave nests of fiber optic cable [2:06]
10:32 amHow America Engineered Its Independence
11:18 amNASA Webb Uncovers Unusual Galaxy Shaped by Cosmic Collision
11:26 amArchaeologists uncover ancient Byzantine city in Egypt’s western desert
12:05 pm'We spent 17 years fighting for the truth about our mother's murder'
12:43 pmThis engineer literally lit up the world — and now wants to power it
01:41 pmBefore He Was 007, Sean Connery Got Tangled Up in a Real Hollywood Mob Scandal
01:46 pmThe radical reasons why you dream of making things by hand
02:25 pmWhen Albert Einstein & Charlie Chaplin Met and Became Fast Famous Friends (1930)
07:48 pmVideo: This Gorgeous Rock Was Made by a Supercontinent [9:19]
- 7th
- 08:46 am
At 100, Dick Van Dyke Credits One Habit For His Long Life [positive mindset]. Studies Link It to 15%
08:48 amThese 567-Million-Year-Old Fossils Are Rewriting the Story of Life on Earth
10:00 amDragonflies maneuver like fighter pilots
10:08 amVideo: What’s It Like to Be Killed by Nature’s Most Brutal Predator [12:21]
10:24 amModern Humans May Have Shared Culture With Neanderthals for 20,000 Years
10:34 amNASA tests advanced new Mars rover prototype in the California desert (video)
11:19 amBomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our
11:53 amVideo: The Mind-Blowing Flaw That Flooded New Orleans [24:33]
12:04 pmThousands of forgotten Punjabi WW1 soldiers recognised for first time
01:31 pmResearchers found a Wordle strategy that wins 99% of the time
02:11 pmVideo: What would a rainbow be like on Tatooine? [2:45]
03:37 pmCatnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
03:39 pmResearchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’
06:06 pmMidtown tower 'remains unstable' after beams buckle, authorities shut down area
- 8th
- 08:09 am
The Same Unknown Chemical Signature Has Been Detected on Pluto And Titan
08:10 amPickles glow when you plug them in. Science explains why
08:13 amA Trap for AI Use in Peer Reviews Sparks Controversy
08:52 amAstronomers witness the birth of a magnetar for the first time
09:47 amVideo: Why Did the Chocolate Bar Ration of WW2 Taste Terrible? [23:11]
10:42 amA Possible Future
11:00 amDetecting hidden nuclear weapons in space may be possible using cosmic rays
11:57 amFrom glamour model to nightclub manager - who was pardoned killer Ruth Ellis?
12:26 pmThe crust expands at mid-ocean rifts. But how?
12:40 pm'What Happens if China Hacks the US Water Supply? I Went to a Secret War Game to Find Out'
01:01 pmOur Bacteria Are Talking. We’ve Just Begun to Understand What They’re Saying.
01:33 pm127 Years Ago, a Coffin Fell From the Sky. Scientists Just Solved a Major Piece of Its Mystery.
02:53 pmWhen Germany Built a Flying Train 125 Years Ago, a City Coalesced Beneath It. It Has Moved Royalty,
03:11 pmThe World's Best Aerial Photos Honored in International Competition
03:58 pmWhy the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
06:46 pmWhat Makes Humans Stupid: It takes intelligence to get things spectacularly wrong
07:23 pmA Pathologist Paints the Hidden World Beneath the Microscope Lens
07:24 pmVideo: How does the space station never run out of oxygen? [6:10]
- 9th
- 08:11 am
A New Study into Dark Matter in the Bullet Cluster Could Disprove its Existence
08:13 amThe Human Mind May Be No Match for Modern Life
08:15 amExecs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free
09:34 amGiant trees have tricks to work around drought
09:58 amVideo: A Lie Millions Wanted to Believe: The Biggest Crypto Scam Ever Created [1:34:37]
10:29 amNew Horizons Watches the Solar Wind as it Slows Down
10:55 amAI Cracked the Rules of a Lost Roman Board Game, and It’s Unlike Anything We Expected
11:02 amOn this day in 1958 the largest recorded megatsunami occurred on the shores of Alaska
11:36 amIs Life Just Different?
01:35 pmOn this day in 1962 the US Defense Atomic Support Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission exploded a
01:39 pmWe Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask
02:09 pmVideo: Why Arm Spinning Saves You [13:25]
02:23 pmWhy Do Men Develop Parkinson’s Disease More Often Than Women?
03:19 pmCan we geoengineer ourselves out of an El Niño year?
03:35 pmGiraffes may be surprisingly good at simple math
06:50 pmThis huge, hairy-legged Australian arachnid may be the fastest spider on the planet
09:52 pmVideo: Why Are There No Wild Cows? [48:42]
- 10th
- 08:25 am
Do bees have inner lives? Slow-motion video reveals bumblebee behaviour similar to ‘liking’ or ‘disl
08:27 amHydrogen: clean fuel of the future — if we can find a cheap and clean way to ship it
08:40 amThe Bayeux Tapestry is at the British Museum after a secret journey from France
08:50 amHow Infrasound Rewires Ear Mechanics
09:50 amThis week: Frozen dino spine, foreign accent bias, Antarctic overachieving, and more!
10:37 amAstronomers may have heard the 1st 'whispers' of ghost particles created by supernova explosions
10:45 amOn this day in 1908, a scientist finally succeeded in liquefying helium
02:20 pmAnthony Littler: How undercover police helped solve 1984 murder case
02:21 pmCheck out the first images of Quest shipwreck
02:39 pmVideo: "The Ultimate Animal For Hunting in the Dark" | BBC Earth [4:15]
03:17 pm11 Rounds of IVF, $250,000, and No Baby
03:27 pmTo Ancient Astronomers, Theta Eridani Was Brighter For A Thousand Years. Now We Know Why
03:59 pmThe Same Wild Elephant Has Killed Four Members of One Family Over 14 Years
04:01 pmChina recovered its first reusable rocket and showed a new way to do it
04:07 pmThe Greatest Sword Ever Made Was Passed Down for Centuries—then Vanished Into Thin Air
- 11th
- 10:59 am
A swarm of stink bugs and a river of rats: why India’s flowering bamboo causes a crisis for humans
11:02 amCould Permanent Magnets Protect Astronauts from Solar Storms?
11:04 amOn this day in 1897 three explorers set out for the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon - they were nev
11:05 amFrom space hotels and artificial meteor showers, to a new giant mirror that reflects sunlight to Ear
11:13 amWe've made it to 25% already, this might actually work!
11:15 amWe Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.
05:21 pmAmerican Pilots Were Tracking Soviet Weapons Development. They Saw Something Completely Inexplicable
05:34 pmFive key scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry, and the story they tell
05:38 pmThis 250-Gram Robot Can Swim Underwater Then Fly into the Sky Using Its Flapping Wings Like a Diving
05:42 pmOn this day in 1997 a giant chunk of ice inexplicably crashed through the roof of a Mercedes warehou
05:48 pmDNA Reveals the Identity of a Teenager Who Died in the Revolutionary War, Cracking a Nearly 250-Year
- 12th
- 12:36 pm
Something Has Been Making the Ocean Glow for Centuries. Scientists Still Can’t Explain It.
12:38 pm“A Potential Minefield” in Earth’s Orbit Has Scientists Sounding the Alarm Over Hidden Objects Threa
12:42 pmBoxed In: The ALF Lesson on Creative Limitations
12:43 pmVideo: Inside A Huge Colony Of Army Ants [3:29]
12:45 pmHow to build an elite servicewoman: British military’s top scientists look to unleash ‘oestrogen adv
12:47 pmWe Need Street Photography Now More Than Ever
02:27 pmSilicon Valley Circuits
03:08 pmWoman rescued in Brazil after being enslaved for 55 years by three generations of the same family
08:01 pmThe Most Famous AI Writing Tic Is Also the Most Mysterious
08:07 pm‘I’m not afraid of dying any more’: comedian Eric Lampaert on his amnesia
- 13th
- 08:09 am
The future of chipmaking looks more like Manhattan than Silicon Valley
08:15 amHow Indian scientists are mapping the brain's last frontier
08:35 amMost Of Moon’s Water Likely Remains Chemically Bound In Its Deep Interior
08:50 amA Foam Cushion Caught Fire—Then Four Hydrogen Bombs Fell on Greenland
08:55 amThe Graph That Should Be Front-Page News
08:55 amSome Monsters are Real
09:05 amVideo: Japan space agency's reusable rocket lands safely in first test flight [01:05]
09:36 amBull bison tosses Yellowstone tourist 8ft in air, with run-in caught on video
10:02 amThe extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg
10:08 amKatie Couric Opens up About Her Transient Global Amnesia Scare
10:15 amHere’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science
11:07 amPhysicists develop the first working model of quantum mechanics using only 'real' numbers
11:18 amVideo: Inside the U.S. Doomsday Plane [15:18]
11:41 amScientists Are Testing a New Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live on the Ocean Floor
11:57 amSpace jam: astronomers detect ‘raspberry sugar’ on dust cloud in Milky Way
12:27 pmOn this day in 1831 the people of St. Domenico, Sicily spotted smoke bubbling from the ocean far off
12:49 pm'Why Am I Left-Handed?'
02:21 pmHow to decode the archive inside ancient tree rings
04:02 pmAlone and Adrift: How a Chinese Businessman Survived Six Days in Open Water
04:18 pmScientists Travel to Unexplored Area of Atlantic Ocean and Photograph Bizarre Deep-Sea Creatures
10:12 pmThe Milky Way's Arms Reach Out Further Than we Thought
- 14th
- 08:04 am
When a congressman beat a senator unconscious, America confronted the limits of free speech
08:08 amOne of the Biggest Treasures in the World Has Gone Missing—Again
08:10 amDimming the Sun Would Help Lower the Risks of El Niño. No, Really
08:19 amA proposal for a children’s public internet
09:05 amUrban Rodents Are Evolving To Survive Common Poisons
09:35 amWhat Was Sewer Socialism?
09:55 amVideo: When did we start using passports? [6:08]
10:15 amRebooting a Spacecraft, 140 Million Kilometres From Home.
11:13 amWho is ‘stealing’ Bali’s water? How tourism siphoned off a prized resource
11:28 amShould You Recline Your Airplane Seat?
11:44 amThe Strange Phenomenon of ‘Terminal Lucidity’
12:33 pmThe great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use
01:04 pmHours each day in an iron lung kept her breathing, her will to live kept her alive
02:18 pmWeird Mountains on Pluto’s Largest Moon Charon Reveals a Surprising Past
02:49 pmChimpanzees Keep Throwing Stones at the Same Trees – Scientists Want To Know Why
03:29 pmVideo: The Scariest Chart In Electrical Engineering [39:43]
- 15th
- 08:04 am
'We were meant to take as many jewels as we could': The confessions of two Louvre burglars
08:07 amPluto has landslides
08:09 amA new study finds that sometimes cats groom each other specifically to be annoying.
08:17 amOver a century after these ships set sail for the South Pole, their wrecks are inspiring new explora
08:25 amVideo: Sound so loud you can see it [37:50]
08:47 amUpdate: One week in, we're at 33% of our goal. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
08:53 amSeals have a unique superpower in their ears, and we finally know how it evolved
09:10 amA most improbable astronaut just went to space
09:47 amOn this day in 2009, we published a paper book for some reason
10:39 amThis Greek island has a dark past. Now it's covered in rare seals
11:20 amThe Real Estate Mogul Who Burned Down His Rival’s Offices
12:33 pmJurassic Park computers in excruciating detail [and yes, that UNIX system was real]
02:00 pmThe brutal, powerful legacy of Threads
02:59 pmHow Cinemas Taught Early Movie-Goers the Rules
06:46 pmThe Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It’s Almost Incomprehensible
06:49 pm'How my period is supercharging my ADHD'
06:51 pmDramatic video shows wildfire surround freight train in Canada
- 16th
- 08:13 am
Naked mole-rat queens produce an odorous chemical that ensures that only they can reproduce
08:19 amThe Snitch Who Put Four Men on Death Row
08:25 amTitan and Pluto share same mysterious molecule: What is it?
08:43 amVideo: Why Is There (Almost) No McDonald‘s in Africa? [15:17]
08:48 amOur daily word game Omiword now allows full access to archived puzzles, 500+ and counting
08:56 amShe knew he wasn’t real. She was in love with him anyway. One woman’s story of a romance scam
09:00 amNASA's Webb Discovers Hidden Planet in Famous Star System
09:13 amThermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow
10:05 amOn this day in 1945, Professor Edgerton first used his atomic camera on a nuclear explosion
10:47 amThe “Eternity Glaciers” Are Almost Gone
11:01 amSee the first x-rays of humans taken in space
11:07 amA Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands
11:28 amInside America’s Shoplifting Lab
12:24 pm'A Case for the Giant Toxic Goo Pit I Want to Build in the Center of Town'
01:02 pmBrain Scans Reveal a Network Origin Point for Schizophrenia
01:08 pmAsteroid with unexplained orbital shift turns out to be a 'dark comet'
01:15 pmFascinating Japanese Retro Futurism From the 1960s
01:37 pmA New Clue From the Night MH370 Vanished May Radically Change the Search for the Missing Plane
03:18 pmAstronomers find nearby planets to be small, strange, and utterly uninhabitable
03:52 pmElephants May Hear Ground Vibrations Through Their Bones, Helping Them to Communicate Over 6 Miles
04:00 pmEarth-like exoplanet found to have an atmosphere
05:19 pmGenerative AI Is an Engineering Disaster
07:05 pmMapping how the U.S. forcibly took Indigenous lands
07:17 pmArchaeologist Turns Over a Stone and Finds a Roman Guardian Hidden Near Hadrian’s Wall for 1,600 Yea
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