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New JFK Files Highlight Kennedy Administration’s Dark Side

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Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

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UCLA neuroscientists use weak electrical signal to stimulate human brain and improve memory

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On this day in 1961 the Soviet Union tested the most powerful bomb ever constructed

The Woman Who Charted the Last Great American Wilderness

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The strange reason deaf children aren’t taught sign language

The Lost Children of Tuam

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How renting furniture in Texas can land you in jail

French Regulators Approve Human Trial of a Bionic Eye

The physics of time travel isn’t just the stuff of science fiction

‘Dinosaur mummy’ unveiled in Canada museum

Rediscovering History’s Lost First Female Video Game Designer

10 things to know about sleep as the clocks go back

Did Ceres once have an ocean?

Why do humans have numbers: are they cultural or innate?

Beyond Genghis Khan: how looting threatens to erase Mongolia’s history

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Two American Women Rescued After Five Months at Sea

Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

How to Read the JFK Assassination Files

How the Soviet Union Snooped Waters for Enemy Subs – Without Sonar

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The Unforgiving Math That Stops Epidemics

A Turkey-Sized Dinosaur With a Raccoon-Like Bandit Mask

Barry Jones Was Sent to Death Row for the Murder of a 4-Year-Old Girl. Did Arizona Get It Wrong?

Universe shouldn’t exist, CERN physicists conclude

Resignation syndrome: Sweden’s mystery illness

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Medieval love of squirrel fur may have helped spread leprosy, study reveals

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Why scientists are redefining the kilogram

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