A 76 million-year-old dinosaur skeleton will be auctioned in New York City All of the other known Gorgosaurus skeletons are in museum collections, making this one the only specimen available for private ownership, Sotheby's said. The Associated Press
The Large Hadron Collider will embark on a third run to uncover more cosmic secrets Ten years ago, the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle helped make sense of our universe. But in doing so, it unlocked a whole host of new questions. Juliana Kim
The effect the Supreme Court's climate decision may have The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Environment Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions reductions from existing power plants. Laura Benshoff
The story of Fred the mastodon A mastodon named Fred, also known as the Buesching mastodon, is a distant relative of the modern elephant. Fred's skeleton is preserved in the Indiana State Museum. Kai McNamee
This company wants to pay you $2,000 to infest your home with cockroaches A North Carolina-based company is looking for a few study participants who are willing to welcome roughly 100 cockroaches into their homes. It got more than 2,500 applications in less than a week. Rachel Treisman
Grab your binoculars: 5 planets are lined up nicely for you to see at dawn this month Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be sequentially aligned and visible at dawn throughout June. The last time this happened was in 2004. Rina Torchinsky
How Deep Squeak, an A-I program with a weird name, is detecting whales Artificial Intelligence is booming. And now an A-I program is being used to search for whales. Joe Palca
Encore: The United States' only native parrot is being studied, to save it We know the bird can mimic human speech; now a researcher is trying to understand parrot-to-parrot communication. He's looking at the red-crowned parrot, which is the only parrot native to the U.S. John Burnett
Tri-Cities researchers say they can extract lithium from water. That's a big deal. The nanoparticle technology could supply a large share of the lithium needed for batteries as America transitions to electric vehicles. John Ryan
How can mas shootings be prevented? Definitive answers are hard to come by Gun violence has a huge impact on public health, but the amount of money and attention directed toward research on preventing mass shootings and firearm deaths doesn't reflect the scale of the crisis. Nell Greenfieldboyce