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The European Space Agency wants to mine the moon for oxygen and water

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Forgotten man, forgotten disease—Aniru Conteh and the battle against Lassa fever

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NATO Fears That This Town Will Be the Epicenter of Conflict With Russia

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Why Scotland loves haggis

The endless hunt for the perfect flu vaccine

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Hitler book maps ‘Final Solution in Canada,’ Library and Archives Canada curator says

Gene Drives Work in Mice (if They’re Female)

Andes Grew to Towering Heights in Two Explosive ‘Growth Spurts’

Program allows ordinary digital camera to see round corners

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

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New Technology Uses Lasers to Transmit Audible Messages to Specific People

A Private Investigator Wanted to Prove His Clients Innocent. Were His Methods His Own Undoing?

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How a Group of Daring Bootleggers Created NASCAR

Study supports physical activity as a preventive strategy against depression

3,000-Year-Old Tomb of King Tut Finally Restored

NASA will attempt to knock an asteroid out of orbit for the first time in 2022

On this day in 1960 two adventurers set out to be the first to the bottom of the Mariana Trench

During the Lunar Eclipse, Something Slammed Into the Moon

When a Harvard Professor Talks About Aliens

Can blue lights prevent suicide at train stations?

Fossilized Insect Discovered Not in Amber, But in Opal

New CRISPR enzyme makes for more precise gene-editing

The economics of streaming is making songs shorter

Scientists Kept Rats Sober by Deleting Memories of Cocaine

Famous freak wave recreated in laboratory mirrors Hokusai’s ‘Great Wave’

Tiny, Previously Undiscovered Capillaries May Exist Inside People’s Bones

Italian musical masters took the violin from fiddle to first chair

How Plastic Cleanup Threatens the Ocean’s Living Islands

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Why Is Uranus The Only Planet Without Interesting Features On It?

UV light may help birds navigate forests

Why your new heart could be made in space one day

Yorimitsu and Shuten-Dôji: The drunken demon of Kyoto

Man with ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome’ Watches Computer Icons Leap Off Screen

Iraqi scientist says he helped ISIS make chemical weapons

How Ants Sniff Out the Right Path

What we do and don’t know about gut health

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Hemingway’s World War I savior is anonymous no more

DNA study debunks Rudolf Hess impostor theory