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Murders most foul: Gainsborough family revenge killings trigger reassessment of artist’s early years

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WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I’d never heard of Enigma until long after the war

The Most Influential Parasite in History

How Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication Could Replace Traffic Lights and Shorten Commutes

Asexual, all-female termite colonies found to do just fine without males

Traces of an Ancient Virus in Our Genes May Play a Role in Addiction

Science Reveals How Fruit Keeps A Lid On Ripening Until The Time Is Right

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About time: why western philosophy can only teach us so much

Rare Tree Kangaroo Reappears After Vanishing for 90 Years

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Mummy of paraplegic child shows how Peru’s Nasca culture treated disability

Revolutionary spinal cord implant helps paralysed patients walk again

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The Best-Ever Photos of an Asteroid’s Rugged Terrain

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What to do about Hitler’s Berghof? Museum challenges far right interest

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Ancient Mars Had Energy Source for Potential Life Underground

“Discovery of a decade”: Archaeologists have found well-reserved 400-year-old shipwreck off Portugal

4-Billion-Year-Old Crystals Offer Clues to the Origins of Life

Planet Earth Wobbles As It Spins, and Now Scientists Know Why

Anthony Bourdain’s Message of Tolerance Continues On After His Death

This hissing, bubbling Alaska lake is frightening scientists

How France created the metric system

What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.

What happened when Boston Public Schools tried for equity with an algorithm

A photographic primer on the dynamics of marine ice

Those Who Can’t Forget

3,500-Year-Old Hand is Europe’s Earliest Metal Body Part

The waiting list for organ transplants is finally shrinking — for a grim reason

A 124-year-old statue reviled by Native Americans – and how it came down

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Indonesian teenager survives 49 days adrift at sea in ‘fishing hut’

Mr. Rogers vs. the Superheroes

Antarctica Greenhouse Produces Cucumbers, Tomatoes and More in Mars-Like Test

How scientists captured a stunning, hellish menagerie of half-dissolved creatures

What Darwin Didn’t Know About Evolution

The Nazis Tried and Failed to Build the World’s Largest Stadium

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When Televisions Were Radioactive

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