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10 things to know about sleep as the clocks go back

Did Ceres once have an ocean?

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Beyond Genghis Khan: how looting threatens to erase Mongolia’s history

The True, Twisted Story of Amityville Horror

Two American Women Rescued After Five Months at Sea

Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

How to Read the JFK Assassination Files

How the Soviet Union Snooped Waters for Enemy Subs – Without Sonar

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The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

A Turkey-Sized Dinosaur With a Raccoon-Like Bandit Mask

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Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude

Resignation syndrome: Sweden’s mystery illness

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Medieval love of squirrel fur may have helped spread leprosy, study reveals

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Why scientists are redefining the kilogram

We May Have Just Been Visited By An Interstellar Comet

The Gruesome, Bloody World of Victorian Surgery

Chinatown’s Ghost Scam

Conjoined Twins Have Survived One of The World’s Rarest Surgeries

Astrolabe: Shipwreck find ‘earliest navigation tool’

Early results from NASA’s Twins Study: Space encourages gene expression

America Has a Monopoly Problem—and It’s Huge

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A tale of ‘trons’: the suffix that tells the story of modern science

The Grain That Tastes Like Wheat, but Grows Like a Prairie Grass

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‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy

Why we still don’t understand sleep, and why it matters

Small-minded? Shrews shrink their skulls to survive winter, study shows

Mars Rover Curiosity Tests Rock Drill After 10-Month Wait

Spider genes put a new spin on arachnids’ potent venoms, stunning silks, and surprising history

The Battle That Created Germany

Experience: I set myself on fire

What Mongolian Nomads Teach Us About the Digital Future

Photons pair up like superconducting electrons

Missouri v. Celia, a Slave: She killed the white master raping her, then claimed self-defense

Step inside the mind of the young Stephen Hawking as his PhD thesis goes online for first time

Fossil discovered after 70 million years shows Jurassic group sleeping peacefully together

Getting on cancer’s nerves: A surprising way to thwart tumours

A spacecraft graveyard exists in the middle of the ocean — here’s what’s down there

Fear of spiders and snakes is deeply embedded in us

A mission to touch the Sun, with the fastest spacecraft in history

The Boomtown That Shouldn’t Exist

The Secret Betting Strategy That Beats Online Bookmakers

When you get a stitch in your side, what’s really going on?

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