Astronomers Discovered 12 New Moons Around Jupiter. Here’s How
Eleven of them behave a lot like Jupiter's other moons, but the twelfth one is weird (in a good way).
Why Nevada’s Execution Drug Cocktail Is So Controversial
A sedative, an opioid, and a paralytic sit at the core of legal and ethical debates over the state-sanctioned killing of death row prisoner Scott Dozier.
Facebook Opens Its Private Servers to Scientists Studying Fake News
Social Science One, an independent research commission, will give social scientists unprecedented access to Facebook's data.
A Time-Lapsed Glacier Collapse Is the Saddest Science Lesson
Time-lapse footage of a calving Glacier in Greenland could help researchers anticipate catastrophic sea-level rise.
An Astronomer Explains Black Holes at 5 Levels of Difficulty
His specialty: The structure of the universe. (That's the official name of his research group at NASA.)
Can Sunscreen Really Repair Your DNA?
Several products claim to repair DNA damage inflicted by UVB rays. What's the science behind them?
One Sentence With 7 Meanings Unlocks a Mystery of Human Speech
Neuroscientists turned to an internet-famous phrase to identify the region of the brain that controls pitch and emphasis in human speech.
Twitter Users Are Analytical in the Morning, Angsty at Night
What an analysis of 800 million tweets and 7 billion words published to Twitter between 2010 and 2014, across the 54 largest cities in the UK, reveals (and doesn't) about the British state of mind.
WHO Calls Gaming Disorder an Illness. Experts Say Not So Fast
Some mental health experts have reservations about the change in the WHO’s International Classification of Diseases.
The Physics of the One Goal You *Won’t* See at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
A soccer player rarely scores directly off a corner kick. It's called an Olympic goal, and when it does happen, it's usually an accident. Here's why.