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The rise and fall of Tab

The Mystery of Male Pregnancy and Birth in Seahorses

Hegra, an Ancient City in Saudi Arabia Untouched for Millennia, Makes Its Public Debut

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China’s Chang’e-5 spacecraft to return the first lunar samples since 1976

How German Librarians Finally Caught an Elusive Book Thief

The forgotten Hawaiian islands in Canada

Helicopter pilot finds ‘strange’ monolith in remote part of Utah

400 years ago, visitors to this painted cave took hallucinogens

Robots Invade the Construction Site

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The Biggest Misunderstanding About the Sun

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Can a Computer Devise a Theory of Everything?

New curio by Alan Bellows: It Belongs in a Museum

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Where Was the Birthplace of Modern Humans?

Life-size model heart 3D-printed out of cardiac tissue-like material

In Phytoremediation, Plants Extract Toxins from Soils

Scarce Food Turns Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars Into Monsters

Astronomers discover new ‘fossil galaxy’ buried deep within the Milky Way

The seaweed swamping the Atlantic Ocean

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When Einstein Tilted at Windmills

Huawei, 5G, and the Man Who Conquered Noise

Geometry Reveals How the World Is Assembled From Cubes

An Oral History of LOL

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