Privately funded search for lost flight MH370 halted after four years

US flight instructors kidnapped and tried to deport trainee to China, say police

Harvard study estimates thousands died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria

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Archaeologists uncover remains of Pompeii victim ‘decapitated while trying to flee’

Mother of all rivers: how the Volga links a divided Russia

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Russian spy poisoning: How the Skripals were saved

Scientists now know exactly where to look for fossils on Mars

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Study: Seafood-lovers have more sex and take less time to get pregnant

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Video: ‘Spiderman’ rescues child dangling from the 5th floor of Paris building

Eighties Babies Are Officially the Brokest Generation, Federal Reserve Study Concludes

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Why Beans Were an Ancient Emblem of Death

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Living inside a canister: Dallas polio survivor is one of few people left in U.S. using iron lung

Oldest European Tree Found—And It’s Having a Growth Spurt

On this day in 1962 an underground fire started in Centralia, PA. It still burns today.

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Treadmills Were Meant to Be Atonement Machines

We’ve updated our Voyager Golden Record simulator to work around recent Chrome changes, and to work better on mobile devices

I work at one of America’s underfunded schools. It’s falling apart

GDPR: The great data privacy panic

The Silence of the Bugs

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Alan Bean, the fourth human to walk on the Moon, has died

Nasa’s Golden Record may baffle alien life, say researchers

When Living Your Truth Can Mean Losing Your Children

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As He Heads Back To Prison, A Nashville Man Says ‘Goodbye’ To The New Life He Hoped To Build

Zhao Kangmin: The man who ‘discovered’ China’s terracotta army

Life and death on a superyacht: ‘If something goes wrong, they can just raise the anchor and leave’

Tick Wrapped in Spider Silk Found Trapped in Amber—A First

Food firms could face litigation over neuromarketing to hijack brains

‘Wolf-like’ creature shot near Montana ranch puzzles experts

On this day in 1940 the Crypt of Civilization was sealed, not to be opened for over 6,000 years