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The largest news agency in the US changes crime reporting practices to ‘do less harm and give people second chances’

Gallery: 2021 Minimalist Photography Awards

She exposed how Facebook enabled global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story.

‘It’s a Miracle That We Are Still Alive’: Inside Sardinia’s Terrifying Firestorm

Energy Dome uses carbon dioxide as a grid-scale battery

Were Black GIs Killed in a World War II–Era Race Riot?

Water transformed into shiny, golden metal

Was Lord Kelvin wrong? A 3D-printed shape casts doubt on his 150-year-old theory

How the Airline Industry Got Wise to Seat Belts

The Tragic Case of the Wrong Thomas James

The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary

Man v food: is lab-grown meat really going to solve our nasty agriculture problem?

The curious link between motherhood and dental problems

2 Red Objects Were Found in the Asteroid Belt. They Shouldn’t Be There.

First detection of light from behind a black hole

On this day in 1866, following a monumental effort, the first trans-Atlantic communication cable was completed

Photos of California’s Dixie Fire

How do ‘Tatooine’ planets survive with 2 suns?

Canadian Arctic fossils may be the oldest animal ever found, study suggests

On this day in 1945 a B-25 bomber crashed into the Empire State Building

Bats are born knowing the speed of sound

Mergers, twists, and pentagons: The architecture of honeycombs

Life in Lava Caves Ignores Food from the Surface, Eats Rock Instead

The strange 19th-Century sport that was cooler than football

What Einstein Meant By “Time is an Illusion”

3.42-billion-year-old fossil threads may be the oldest known archaea microbes

German X-ray space telescope captures most complete map of black holes ever

What comes next after the International Space Station ends

Fractons, the ‘Weirdest’ Matter, Could Yield Quantum Clues

This medical pioneer deplored the devastating effects of leaded petrol when it was first introduced

Exhibition tells story of Spanish children used as vaccine ‘fridges’ in 1803

Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk

Surprise find in Halifax harbour anchors diver’s theory on 1917 explosion

False Positive: Why Thousands of Patients May Not Have Asthma after All

Bacteria discovered on the International Space Station may help grow food on Mars

The true story of how Billy Joel’s “Piano Man” stiffed, then caught fire

Snow can disappear straight into the atmosphere in hot, dry weather

5% of Earth’s Power Plants Create 73% of the Energy Sector’s Emissions

This Kamikaze Impact Mark On A British Cruiser Is A Testament To The Brutality Of The Pacific War

Spiral shark intestines work like Nikola Tesla’s water valve, study finds

Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering

Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences

Tunnel Discovered With Aztec Carvings Will Be Reburied After Museum Loses Funding

Ancient brains: a look inside the extraordinary preservation of a 310-million-year-old nervous system

How Rust Can Insidiously, Literally Kill You

The return of Britain’s meat-eating plants

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New curio by Jennifer Lee Noonan: Hard to Swallow

An Outbreak of Wildfire Thunderclouds

Exoplanet hunting satellite CHEOPS detects unique planet “With No Known Equivalent”

On Molly Williams, One of America’s First Female Firefighters

Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science

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Hubble finds first evidence of water vapor on Jupiter’s moon Ganymede

Argentinian lake turns bright pink due to industrial pollution

Scientists observed a beetle walking upside-down on the undersurface of a pool of water

The Chowchilla bus kidnapping: What happened all those years ago?

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