Indigenous Women in Canada Are Still Being Sterilized Without Their Consent

The hidden story of two African American women looking out from the pages of a 19th-century book

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The Crime-Solving, Plant-Savvy Scientists at the Cutting Edge of a New Forensics

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The last of the great explorers

The new growth in hair loss research

Can Smiling Really Make You Happier?

Cook Islands to change name to remove any association with Captain Cook

Vinyl Is Poised to Outsell CDs For the First Time Since 1986

Japanese Clerk Allegedly Stole Over 1,300 Credit Cards By Instantly Memorizing All the Numbers

Unusual Fluids Flip, Twirl, and Redefine How Liquids Work

Exploring Drug-Induced Synesthesia

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The pace of life in the 21st Century has created “infostorms” that overwhelm our senses

India moon mission: Vikram lunar lander found on surface

Whale Songs Are Getting Deeper

The World War II Diet That Saved Britain

First Long-Distance Heart Surgery Performed Through a Robot

Xkcd Creator Randall Munroe on the Joys of Overthinking Everything

Why industry is going green on the quiet

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The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries

EA Received A Guinness World Record For Most Downvoted Comment In Reddit History

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Strange life-forms found deep in a mine point to vast ‘underground Galapagos’

Driving an ambulance in a opioid-torn city in the age of Narcan

85 years ago today a fire broke out on the luxury turbo-electric ocean liner SS Morro Castle

Even Physicists Don’t Understand Quantum Mechanics

‘Ding dong, it’s time’: dancing tarantulas emerge in droves to mate in western US

Who Cleans Up All the Gore and Goop When the Horror Movie Cameras Stop Rolling?

DMVs Are Selling Your Data to Private Investigators

The holiday islands where locals have nowhere to live

Body of woman missing since 1992 found in lake

Dead Sea scrolls study raises new questions over texts’ origins

Toy Stories: Kids from around the world posing with prized possessions

Indian woman, 73 gives birth to twin girls

India Loses Contact With Chandrayaan-2 Lander During Moon Descent

The Mysterious Evacuation of Sunspot Observatory

The Accidental Invention of the Lifesaving Pacemaker

How to Plan a Family Around an Interplanetary Mission

China’s First Cloned Kitten, Garlic

Studying the Superhuman

Early animal had ‘complex behaviour’

The psychology behind why we find clowns so creepy

Geel, Belgium has a radical approach to mental illness

Thieves Used Audio Deepfake of a CEO to Steal $243,000

If We Find Alien Life, Can We Avoid Harming It?

Is Armed Conflict Possible in Today’s Europe?

The Saltwater Railroad

Why the Return of the Airship Makes More Sense Than Ever

Gallery: The Unbuilt Streets of California’s Ghost Metropolis

The Ancient Chinese Earthquake Detector That’s Puzzling Modern Researchers

The Hidden Professional Code Breakers of Renaissance Venice

How the East India Company became the world’s most powerful business

‘Storm Area 51’ Could Be a Disaster for Lincoln County

A meteorite older than Earth shows evidence of ancient volcanism on a long-gone protoplanet

From mind control to murder? How a deadly fall revealed the CIA’s darkest secrets