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25 years ago today a mathematician finally cracked Fermat’s Last Theorem

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Rock Solid Evidence for Other Earths

The Forest Service Is About to Set a Giant Forest Fire—On Purpose

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Molecular structure predicted by early Nobel Laureate found after a century

New video reveals how flies land upside-down

“The Most Spectacular Court Procedure in the Entire Life of the County”

The Amazing True Adventures of Jack London in the Wild

The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’

Edwin Chadwick and the movement to blame the poor for being sick

Sad mystery of elastic bands found on remote Cornish island solved

These Weird Bagworm Moths Build Log Cabins of Twigs to Live and Die In

The First U.S.-China Trade Deal

Scientific American Says 5G Is Dangerous, Vegetables Are Junk Food

Life in the ‘hairy underground’: the lost history of Soviet hippies

39 Bodies Found in Truck in U.K.; Police Seek to Retrace Fatal Journey

The weirdest idea in quantum physics is catching on: There may be endless worlds with countless versions of you.

Gallery: Protests Erupt Across Chile

Doctors’ Expectations Make Pain Treatments More Effective, Research Finds

Google Claims a Quantum Breakthrough That Could Change Computing

Crabs can learn and remember their way through a complex maze

A fresh mechanism for how buckyballs form in space

Climate change has finally caught up to this Alaska village

The Worst Day in Earth’s History Contains an Ominous Warning

When Exoplanets Collide

When Mexico’s Immigration Troubles Came From Americans Crossing the Border

This Is What the World’s First Travel Guide Looks Like

Why Did The Boeing 737 Max Crash?

The Truth About Open Offices

Shock and gnaw: rat-eating macaques ‘stun’ scientists

The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data

Inside the Phone Company Secretly Run By Drug Traffickers

This Weird Spider-Bot Could Soon Crawl on the Moon

Conjuring up the dead: Helen Duncan and her ectoplasm spirits

It Took Just Three Weeks for Superbug to Resist Last-Resort Drug, Doctors Say

Have we become too paranoid about mass shootings?

Carl Wilhelm Scheele: The Unlucky Chemist

Lighthouse saved from falling into sea with skates

Uranium Scare Exposes Grand Canyon’s Toxic Work Culture

Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kids

Do you believe in rectangles?

World’s oldest pearl discovered near Abu Dhabi

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One of these is a deadly viper. The other is a harmless toad. Can you tell the difference?

Powered by Sunlight, ‘Artificial Leaf’ Successfully Produces Clean Gas From CO2 and Water

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Astronomers have spotted a new type of storm on Saturn