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NASA unveils plan to test asteroid defense technique

On this day in 1881, an assassin shot US president James Garfield

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US planning to create ‘Space Corps’ as sixth branch of armed forces

On this day in 1959, three men who all thought they were Jesus walked into a room

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On this day in 1971 a Soyuz spacecraft decompressed, exposing 3 cosmonauts to near-vacuum

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Video: Biography of Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai, painter of the world-famous “The Great Wave”

Japan reveals plans to put a man on moon by 2030

Pesticides damage survival of bee colonies, landmark study shows

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Skull fragments with carved long, deliberate lines found at [9,000 year old temple] Gobekli Tepe

A near-disaster at a federal nuclear weapons laboratory takes a hidden toll on America’s arsenal

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On this day in 1905, a doctor attempted to converse with a freshly severed head

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Astronomers Detect Orbital Motion in Pair of Supermassive Black Holes

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Video shows that the sound of human voices is enough to terrify cougars away from their hunted prey

Study: Living near noisy roads could make it harder to get pregnant

A photographer swimming among hundreds of sperm whales witnesses a rarely seen social spectacle

Court orders Salvador Dalí’s body be exhumed for paternity test

Video: The discovery and exploration of an ancient cypress forest 60 feet underwater in the Gulf of Mexico

On this day in 1945, stakeholders in AM radio succeeded in ruining the inventor of FM radio

Concorde without the cacophony: NASA thinks it’s cracked quiet supersonic flight

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