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The Stilt Walking Farmers of Landes, France

How a Deadly Circus Fire on the ‘Day the Clowns Cried’ Traumatized a Community—and Led to Lasting Safety Reforms

Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

A Fusion Rocket Could Soon Reach a World We Haven’t Seen Since the Stone Age

Japan islanders sleepless after 900 earthquakes in two weeks

Rare Blanket of Snow Falls in Chile’s Atacama, the World’s Driest Desert

Evidence of Planet 9 in IRAS and AKARI surveys

Gene Therapy Restores Hearing in Those with Deafness

Video: We Almost Ruined a $270 Million Dollar Mission [18:51]

How Was the Wheel Invented?

Get Up Close to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unrealized Buildings with David Romero’s Digital Models

Tardigrades May Still Be Living on the Moon After Lunar Lander Crash

Video: This Mother Hen Talks To Her Eggs – And They Chirp Back [3:54]

The impressive science behind Agatha Christie’s poisons

Skeleton found in pot is first ancient Egyptian to undergo whole genome analysis

A study reveals beverages hydrating better than water

5-Year-Old and Father Rescued After Going Overboard on Disney Cruise

‘A completely new phenomenon’: Astronomers spot a planet causing its star to constantly explode

How AI Wreaked Havoc on the Lo-Fi Beat Scene

Emoji use may impact relationship outcomes, study reveals

Astronomers spot potential ‘interstellar visitor’ A11pl3Z shooting through the solar system toward Earth

Video: This is Europe’s Most Remote Construction Site [14:13]

The Surprising Reason Rural Hospitals [in America] Are Closing

‘Vietnam was insane, Apocalypse Now only slightly less so’: The inside story of the wildest shoot in film history

See a Stunning Photo of New York City From Above in 1932

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

Video: Chuck Jones’s 1949 Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health Care [10:19]

Why Can’t Americans Sleep?

Can the music industry make AI the next Napster?

The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long

Titan is the Perfect Benchmark for Studying Exoplanet Atmospheres

Double detonation: New image shows remains of star destroyed by pair of explosions

‘They took shrapnel from my heart’ – the magnets saving lives in Ukraine

Could Your Nightmares Come From Cheese? Maybe, If You’re Lactose Intolerant

Climate change is changing the geography of infectious disease

Scientists capture slow-motion earthquake in action

Citizen scientists spot rare exploding star in real-time

Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why

On this day in 1881 a deranged man shot US President James Garfield

Nominees for BigPicture Natural World People’s Choice

Physicists Start To Pin Down How Stars Forge Heavy Atoms

No Mercury, No Cyanide: This is the Safest and Greenest Way to Recover Gold from E-waste

What Causes an Earworm?

More Than One-Third of Tuvalu’s Population Has Applied for a ‘Climate Visa’ to Relocate to Australia

Scientists Discovered a New Creature That Exists Between Life and Not-Life

Identities of More Than 80 Americans Stolen for North Korean IT Worker Scams

Menstrual Cups Tested in Space Flight Conditions for the First Time

On this day in 1953 the strange and tormented movie “The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.” first appeared in theaters

Scientists identify culprit behind biggest-ever U.S. honey bee die-off

Video: How Liquid Dampers in Skyscrapers Work [19:09]

A London Dentist Just Cracked a Geometric Code in Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man

The Art of Simple Sabotage – CIA

Hubble Spots Reflection Nebula in Taurus Molecular Cloud

Laughing Apes Take Risks

People are using AI to ‘sit’ with them while they trip on psychedelics

How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies

These Bees Trick Others into Caring for Their Young

Why Webb can’t look at Earth, Venus or Mercury

New 3D printing breakthrough combines soft and hard materials in one object