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Magnetic Materials Help Explain How Arctic Ice Melts

The Airplanes That Rescue Ebola Patients

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Stored in Synapses: How Scientists Completed a Map of the Roundworm’s Brain

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Toxic processionary caterpillar plague spreads across Europe

X-ray images of quasars, supermassive black holes spinning at near the speed of light, appearing as multiple points due to gravitational lensing

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Pioneering surgery brings movement back to paralysed hands

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Extremely Rare Lava Lake Discovered on Remote British Island

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Oregon’s Tsunami Risk: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages

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Micronutrient deficiencies affect two billion people worldwide

‘I bit off its tongue – it was in my mouth’: the man who survived a bear attack

The Dubious Past of the Annual Hot Dog Eating Contest

Why We’re Patriotic: Whether it’s our country or our football team, we need to belong

How our brain sculpts experience in line with our expectations

Saturn’s Icy Moon Enceladus Is Likely the ‘Perfect Age’ to Harbor Life

Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt

Inside the 21st-century British criminal underworld

A raging heroin addiction fueled a former Boeing engineer’s yearlong, 30-bank robbery spree

Astronomers ponder halos around galaxies

Illinois’ first capital is an island that’s home to just 18 people. Recent flooding has made it even more isolated.

Interview With A Serial Killer

The first socialist

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The Science Of Smiles, Real And Fake

How Cassini Ran Rings Around Saturn and What It Helped Us Learn

Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction

Why Is It ‘Snowing’ Salt in the Dead Sea?

New Weapons Against Cancer: Millions of Bacteria Programmed to Kill

Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer

Linnaeus’s Flower Clock: Keeping Time With Flowers

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World’s smallest MRI performed on single atoms