A super-Earth orbits the star named by Star Trek’s creator as the host of the planet Vulcan.

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Freddie Oversteegen, Teenage Resistance Fighter Who Assassinated Nazis, Has Died at 92

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Massive trove of centuries-old undelivered mail seized by British warships going online

Bomb squad warning over magnet fishing

Sailor’s rape confession uncovered in 17th-century journal

“Eat More Onions!”: Desperate and massively debatable medical advice from 1918

Isolated Nomads Are Under Siege in the Amazon Jungle

Ice volcanoes have likely been erupting for billions of years on Ceres

What 13,000 Patents Involving the DNA of Sea Life Tell Us About the Future

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The U.S. Nuked This Warship in 1946. Now America Is Trying To Save Its Oil Before It’s Too Late.

After Mysterious Closure, Solar Observatory In New Mexico Reopens

The Hotel in Afghanistan That Refuses to Close Its Doors

Tiny Satellites Headed to Mars Likely Are First of Many

A giant crawling brain: the jaw-dropping world of termites

First light! TESS shares first science image in hunt to find new worlds

Mysterious great white shark lair discovered in Pacific Ocean

Germany launches world’s first hydrogen-powered train

Scientists thought they had created the perfect tree. But it became a nightmare.

How Auto-Tune Revolutionized the Sound of Popular Music

A New Type of Inscribed Copper Plate from Indus Valley (Harappan) Civilisation

Last call for Nevada’s brothels?

Mum’s nursery rhyme nightmares solved by late-night crack team

Egyptian archaeologists discovered a small, ancient sphinx at Aswan temple

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Image: Cosmic Collision Forges Galactic Ring

Bizarre Physics Phenomenon Suggests Objects Can Be Two Temperatures at Once

‘Thor’s Well’ Seems to Drain to the Underworld in Incredible Photo (Here’s Why)

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Europe’s Triumphs and Troubles Are Written in Swiss Ice

How the zebrafish got its stripes

How an Unsolved Mystery Changed the Way We Take Pills

Mars Explorers Could Live in ‘Igloo’ Near Red Planet’s North Pole

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On this day in 1920 a massive bomb exploded on New York City’s Wall Street

Can the study of the past really help us to understand the present?

Why NASA wants to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon

Hundreds of century-old photos of Inuit travelling the North

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It’s Hard for Doctors to Unlearn Things. That’s Costly for All of Us.

Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect poses conundrum for ACT court

The EU is doing away with the twice-yearly clock changes in 2019

The language the French forbade

Can you guess which of these paintings was not made by a human?

The Surprising Reason that There Are So Many Thai Restaurants in America

Water Droplets Don’t Just Hover on a Hot Pan. They Roll.

Dozens of Massachusetts Homes Exploded. A Gas Expert Weighs In.

A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs

Can Science Cure Aging?

America’s Top Nazi Sued Warner Bros. for Libel in 1939 Because He Didn’t Like the Movie Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Spectacular ice age wolf pup and caribou dug up in Canada

The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would

Juno Captures Elusive ‘Brown Barge’

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