Carl Zimmer has the best angle on the new story about Archaeopteryx’s colours: an embargoed tattoo

A secret group of Parisian artists break into museums & restore neglected artworks

X-Ray Laser Turns Up the Heat to 3.6 Million Degrees. That’s hotter than the sun’s corona.

People who regularly take their placebo pills are less likely to die than people who miss their placebo doses. Amazing.

Declan Butler has terrific piece assessing the claims in the debate about mutant H5N1 flu.

The Titanoboa Project wants to create a 50ft robotic version of prehistory’s biggest snake. What could go wrong?

Can a person actually survive being swallowed by a whale? An Ahab-like quest to find out.

GPS helps track what happens when