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Shocked meteorites provide clues to Earth’s lower mantle

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A secret pyramid consumed by the jungle

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Machines are learning to write poetry. How should artificial intelligence alter our appreciation of art?

Could invisible aliens really exist among us? An astrobiologist explains

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Rare salt formations appear along the Great Salt Lake

Welcome to Jáchymov: the Czech town that invented the dollar

Is the world becoming more violent?

Italy’s Great Garlic Divide

3D Printing and the Murky Ethics of Replicating Bones

World’s largest radio telescope starts formal operation

Fatty tongues could be main driver of sleep apnoea

The Man Who’s Spending $1 Billion to Own Every Pop Song

Is Multi-Level Marketing Really Just a Pyramid Scheme?

Why Scientists Fall for Precariously Balanced Rocks

A criminal cover-up on the world’s busiest bridge hits the US Supreme Court

Mexico City gold was Aztec loot Spanish abandoned as they fled in 1520, tests show

Always counterclockwise: Puzzle of early Neolithic house orientations finally solved

What it’s like to survive a shipwreck

The Virus Buried in a 100-Year-Old Lung

Why the League of Nations was doomed before it began

How New York’s Bagel Union Took on the Mob

African grey parrots spontaneously ‘lend a wing’

A Biological Solution to the Mystery of Methane on Mars

Is this the most powerful word in the English language?

The Dognapping of the Century

New episode of Damn Interesting Week: The Confectioner

Easter Island’s Monoliths Made the Crops Grow

Ghosts in the Machine: The beauty of decayed daguerreotypes

The voice of sadness is censored as sick. What if it’s sane?

Our endless quest for eternal youth

When a Psychic Reading Costs You $740,000

A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel

Did the Trojan War actually happen?

The inside story of how scientists produced an Ebola vaccine

The strange case of Paul Zimmer, the influencer who came back as a different person

A Genetic Mutation Is Responsible for Mysterious Deaths in the Amish Community, Researchers Say

The Hidden Cost of Ransomware: Wholesale Password Theft

Demand for ginseng is creating a ‘wild west’ in Appalachia

The Ice Giant Spacecraft of Our Dreams

Scientists give cuttlefish 3D glasses and shrimp films for vision study

Never-before-seen virus may be behind mystery outbreak in China

A Surprising New Source of Attention in the Brain Raises New Questions

Lessons for a Young Scientist

New clues to help explain how a 2,600-year-old brain survived to modern times

Why We Love Untranslatable Words

Human immune cells produced in a dish in world first

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

Mystery of Weird Hum Heard Around the World Solved

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The Superpowers of Super-Thin Materials

Where people fall from the sky

The Safe Havens and No-Go Zones for 20th-Century Black American Travelers

Gallery: China’s lander releases data, high-resolution images of the Moon

Inside the Billion-Dollar Battle Over .Org