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A new camera can photograph you from 45 kilometers away

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U.S. Army researchers have developed a new type of cathode chemistry that cuts battery weight in half

Chernobyl has become a refuge for wildlife 33 years after the nuclear accident

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Hundreds of Bodies, One Nurse: German Serial Killer Leaves as Many Questions as Victims

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Deepfake Salvador Dalí takes selfies with museum visitors

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New water cycle on Mars discovered

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On this day in 1898 Victorian scientists liquefied the “permanent gas” hydrogen

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What killed Prince Albert?

Hyperactive Comets Hint at Origins of Earth’s Oceans

How Fish May See Color in the Deep Ocean’s Darkness

Medieval Africans Had a Unique Process for Purifying Gold With Glass

One of the Biggest Locomotives of All Time Rides Again

A medical condition or just a difference? The question roils autism community.

The Suicide Bomber Who Survived

The Notre Dame Fire Caused Lead Levels in the Area to Skyrocket

What happens when a raindrop hits a puddle?

Penis extensions don’t work, study finds

Why rich convicts hire prison consultants

Japanese knotweed, the invasive plant that just won’t die.

When Was the Last Time American Children Were So Afraid?

Blow up: how half a tonne of cocaine transformed the life of an island

The bird that came back from the dead

France asks: Can you solve the riddle of the rock?

Scenes from the new Cold War unfolding at the top of the world

This Physicist Is Using Mayonnaise to Study Nuclear Fusion

In an NC swamp, researcher finds tree older than Christianity. Could there be more?

Inside One Woman’s 7 Year Journey to Photograph Every Native American Tribe

CIA’s Solution to Killing Too Many Civilians: Knife Bomb

Hidden Cupid resurfaces in one of Vermeer’s best-known works after two and a half centuries

Hackers breached 3 US antivirus companies, researchers reveal

Feds Dismantled the Dark Web Drug Trade—but It’s Already Rebuilding

Iceland’s Radical Plan to Slow Climate Change

Why the moon’s south pole may be the hottest destination in space

Facebook auto-generates videos celebrating extremist images

The Dramatic Story of How Denver Decriminalized Mushrooms

Massive cache of 1,000 guns seized from Bel-Air mansion

Viktor Orbán’s War on Intellect

Britain’s equivalent to Tutankhamun found in Southend-on-Sea

The mess that is elite college admissions, explained by a former dean

A serial killer at the border – and the women who stood up to him

Where North and South Korea Meet: On TV

On this day in 1963 scientists installed an artificial ring around the Earth

American Doctors Are Reconstructing the Youngest Faces of a Brutal War

Typo on millions of Australian bank notes

Tantalizing Creatures with Male and Female Genes

Black, Hot Ice May Be Nature’s Most Common Form of Water

Robot butlers operated by remote workers are coming to do your chores

Why we must not let Europe break apart