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On this day in 1786, a pharmacist changed Europe by giving flowers to the king and queen of France

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Big Fish: The Aquacultural Revolution

First functioning mini human hearts grown from stem cells

Why are the Dutch so tall?

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In and around Los Angeles, natural and man-made disasters have been inextricable for almost two centuries

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A Fleet of Computers Helps Settle a 90-Year-Old Math Problem

The Inside Story of the 25-Year, $8 Million Heist From the Carnegie Library

On this day in 1934 a shadowy cabal asked Major General Smedley Darlington Butler to lead a coup against the US government

Earth Was a Very Different Place Before Mud

Scientists find evidence for Einstein’s general relativity in the cores of dead stars

The Physicist Who Slayed Gravity’s Ghosts

California Wildfires Can Create Their Own Terrifying Weather

Imagine inventing a sport and then being shunned by it. That’s the Haudenosaunee story

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Rogue planets could outnumber the stars

How Physics Erases The Beginning Of The Universe

This giant machine could give us unlimited clean energy

Myka and James Stauffer adopted a toddler from China and shared every step of the process with their online audience. Except the last.

A Brief History of the United States Postal Service

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Peer inside a mummified cat from ancient Egypt, courtesy of high-res 3D X-rays

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The pioneering surgeons who cleaned up filthy hospitals

On this day in 1986 over 1,700 people died when a lake spontaneously exploded