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Study: Human body temperature has decreased in the US since the 19th century

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Titanic wave of star-forming gases found in Milky Way

Continents of the Underworld Come Into Focus

Birds and bats have strange gut microbiomes—probably because they can fly

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Secret Life of a Broke Personal Finance Guru

She helped her ‘best friend’ give birth. Then she stole the baby and passed it off as her own, officials say

The Coolest Architecture on Earth Is in Antarctica

In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol

Animals Thrive in Areas Evacuated by Humans After Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

The Curious Case of the Notebook from State Lunatic Asylum No.3

Turn-by-turntables: How drivers got from point A to point B in the early 1900s

How Archaeologists Are Hunting History from Space

How to Find a Disappearing Planet

On the Mathematical Problem of Human Creativity

The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel

Australia’s Bushfire Catastrophe in Photos

Mysterious radio signal from space seems to have suddenly vanished

New evidence shows that the key assumption made in the discovery of dark energy is in error

The Art of Book Covers (1820–1914)

Why Colombians Are Finally Deleting Gangsters From Their Speed Dial

NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World

This new method could fast-track the discovery of alien life

Astronomers Have Tracked a Repeating Radio Signal Across Space to an Unexpected Origin

Confessions of a slaughterhouse worker

This pitch-black exoplanet is spiraling toward its doom

A new way to identify a rare type of earthquake in time to issue lifesaving tsunami warnings

On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive

Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

A World Without Pain

The Complex Life of Griffith J. Griffith

The female scientist who changed human fertility forever

The 1997 merger that paved the way for the Boeing 737 Max crisis

What college was like for Harvard Law’s first deafblind graduate

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