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A Black Army vet spent 16 months in solitary. Then a jury heard the evidence against him.

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That Time they Stripped the White House Down to its Bones

Years after finding it, archeologists enter chamber under a Peruvian temple

Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?

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Ozette: The US’ lost 2,000-year-old village

Google engineer put on leave after saying AI chatbot has become sentient

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Gaia probe reveals stellar DNA and unexpected ‘starquakes’

Cloned crayfish accidentally created in an aquarium are conquering the world

The lucrative economics of expert witnesses

Researchers run a gas turbine on pure hydrogen in world first

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Astronomers Reimagine the Making of the Planets

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Pentagon Aims to Demo a Nuclear Spacecraft Within 5 Years

Lost photos from Spanish civil war reveal daily life behind anti-fascist lines

Scientists Found Superworms That Love Eating Styrofoam, And It Could Be a Good Thing

What We Overlooked in King Tut’s Tomb

Scientists discover viruses that secretly rule the world’s oceans

Mars Base 101: How astronauts could make the most of a 30-day Red Planet stay

Scientists release first analysis of rocks plucked from speeding asteroid

No Army? No Problem

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Is this the oldest tree in the world?

‘All hell broke loose’: weary soldiers tell of frontline holdout in Ukraine city

The missing daughter of a couple killed in 1981 has been found alive more than 40 years later

Why so many Americans are terrified to have kids in 2022

NASA to form scientific team to study UFOs

‘Fantastic giant tortoise’ species thought extinct for 100 years found alive

Photos: More Than 100 Days of War in Ukraine

How a Saxophonist Tricked the KGB by Encrypting Secrets in Music

Axisymmetric ‘spike waves’ far exceed limits previously thought to dictate maximum height of ocean waves

Jupiter Discovered To Be Inhomogeneous – Metallicity Reveals New Clues About Planet’s Origin

Europe’s ‘largest ever’ land dinosaur found on Isle of Wight

A New Mystery Signal Is Repeating From a Distant Galaxy, And It’s a Weird One

Physicists discover never-before seen particle sitting on a tabletop

The brain uses data compression for decision-making

The Russian soldiers refusing to fight in Ukraine

Magnetic Microbes Are Thriving in the Mariana Trench

Gravitational Waves Continue to Astound

Seven stowaways and a hijacked oil tanker: the strange case of the Nave Andromeda

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