Big Cities, Bright Lights And Up To 1 Billion Bird Collisions

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In Bubbles, She Sees a Mathematical Universe

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Does legalizing marijuana help or harm Americans? Weighing the statistical evidence

The Ethiopians are building a massive dam, and Egypt is worried

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What Baseball Teaches Us About Measuring Talent

Death of a Glacier

One night of telescope time rules out black hole/dark matter idea

Herpes virus link to bipolar disorder and depression

The engineering of living organisms could soon start changing everything

Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?

How Ketchup Became the Great Equalizer

The Robocall Crisis Will Never Be Totally Fixed

The nuclear sins of the Soviet Union live on in Kazakhstan

Stonewall at 50: stories from a gay rights revolution

What was the Neolithic Revolution?

Two rockets dropped tracers into the northern lights and the result was glorious

Rhino Poacher Killed by Elephant and Eaten by Lions, Officials Say

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Health care’s huge cybersecurity problem

First Science Results from Hayabusa2 Mission

The Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club, founded in 1908

‘I Lied When I Said We Did Everything We Could’

In San Francisco, Making a Living From Your Billionaire Neighbor’s Trash

People Once Downloaded Games From The Radio

How Google Is Cramming More Data Into Its New Atlantic Cable

Yes, Giant Technicolor Squirrels Actually Roam the Forests of Southern India

Forget bars and apps: This Beijing park is a matchmaking spot for seniors.

Unexpected rain on sun links two solar mysteries

The World’s Tallest Tropical Tree Is Longer Than a Football Field

Churchill, the Greatest Briton, Hated Gandhi, the Greatest Indian

Sandy Fawkes: The Reporter and The Serial Killer

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

Close calls: when American presidents diced with death

DNA appears to show this Revolutionary War general was a woman or intersex

Mummified mice found in ‘beautiful, colourful’ Egyptian tomb

The Army Thought He Was Faking His Health Issues. Turns Out He Had Chronic Lead Poisoning.

The origin of “Even a Stopped Clock Is Right Twice a Day”

Here’s why NASA’s audacious return to the Moon just might work

Inside Scientology’s Secret Propaganda Museum Blaming 9/11 and the Holocaust on Psychiatry

Don’t believe your ears: ‘enhancing’ forensic audio can mislead juries in criminal trials

Declassified U-2 spy plane photos are a boon for aerial archaeology

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Makes 2nd Daring Flyby of the Sun

The IRS Tried to Take on the Ultrawealthy. It Didn’t Go Well.

She Survived a Slave Ship, the Civil War and the Depression. Her Name Was Redoshi.

Here’s the real reason why Terracotta Army weapons are so well-preserved

Chernobyl’s disastrous cover-up is a warning for the next nuclear age

Curiosity Captured Two Solar Eclipses on Mars

Japanese spacecraft ‘bombs’ asteroid in scientific mission

The Weird Machine That Measured Radio Audiences in the ’30s and ’40s

What To Do If You Encounter A Visitor From Another Universe

Die, robocalls, die: A how-to guide to stop spammers and exact revenge

Scientists Think They’ve Found a Dead Planetary Core Orbiting a Dead Star

Teen says he is missing boy who escaped from kidnappers

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