The secret behind Italy’s rarest pasta

Documentary, 1995: Waco-The Inside Story

Placebos: It turns out they work even when you know they’re placebos

What Happened to Eastern Airlines Flight 980?

80 Years Later, Polar Explorer’s Sunken Ship Floats Again

Feeding cows seaweed could slash global greenhouse gas emissions, researchers say

DNA reveals the “Higgs bison,” a hybrid Ice Age species depicted in ancient cave art

Why the U.S. Military Still Flies Cold-War Era Planes

Migraines could be caused by gut bacteria, study suggests

Why billionaires have more sons

What Happens to American Myth When You Take the Driver Out of It?

Mars: Inside the High-Risk, High-Stakes Race to the Red Planet

Rare, Neolithic ‘Goddess’ Figurine Discovered in Turkey (estimated 8,000 years old)

Dirty secrets of the mail fraud mafia

The Forgotten Tunnel Under Naples Filled With Vintage Cars

The Soviet InterNyet: How Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation

Was Venus the first habitable planet in our solar system?

Cheran: The town that threw out police, politicians and gangsters

The Virus With Spider DNA

New Research Debunks The Dinosaur’s Roar

Why French pigs say groin, Japanese bees say boon and American frogs say ribbit

Slow-motion wrecks: how thawing permafrost is destroying Arctic cities

Terahertz radiation could make computer memory 1,000 times faster

We finally know why naked mole rats are impervious to pain

‘If I Sleep for an Hour, 30 People Will Die’ (autoplay video)

Meteorites pummel the Moon far more than expected

Secret Mayan tombs lend rare insight into rule of mysterious ‘snake kings’

China’s quantum satellite could make data breaches a thing of the past

Computer scientists have solved a cake-cutting problem mathematicians have struggled with for decades

Study: Spiders have a far acuter sense of hearing than previously thought

Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments

Study: Ultraviolet light from stars crucial to formation of organic molecules needed to create life

Restored and ravishing: the magnificent Ghent Altarpiece gives up its centuries-old mysteries

The Universe May Contain 10 Times More Galaxies Than We Thought

The people who ate each other

Video: HD Footage of the Moon courtesy of Japan’s JAXA SELENE orbiter

Facebook has repeatedly trended fake news since firing its human editors

New Room Found at Winchester Mystery House

How insect-eating plants persuade insects to pollinate them

Time warp: why uncertainty affects how we perceive time

What Dreams Are Like When You’re Blind

Decades-Old Mystery Put To Rest: Why Are There X’s In The Desert?

New findings suggest China and the West were in contact 1,500+ years before European Marco Polo arrived in China

Tick bites that trigger severe meat allergy on rise around the world

Chicxulub ‘dinosaur crater’ investigation begins in earnest

Documentary: Five black and Latino teenagers were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in Central Park in 1989

Mars Astronauts Face Memory Loss, Anxiety And Long Term Brain Damage

NASA: Making Human Settlement of Space a Reality

Crash: how computers are setting us up for disaster

Stem cells from one monkey regenerates the damaged heart of another monkey with no sign of rejection

25 New ‘Dead Sea Scrolls’ Revealed

We Use Words to Talk. Why Do We Need Them to Think?

1491: What the western hemisphere was like before Columbus ‘discovered’ it

These ocean worlds reveal just how little water we have on Earth

Liquid assets: how the business of bottled water went mad

Video: Carl Sagan on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson (full interview, March 2nd 1978)

In one German town, 1,000 people killed themselves in 72 hours

Six Scientists, 1,000 Miles, One Prize: The Arctic Bumblebee

Great, Mysterious Balls of Fire Speed by Dying Star

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