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Ancient Humans May Have Practiced Ritual Finger Amputation

Why language might be the optimal self-regulating system

Is the U.S. Lagging in the Quest for Quantum Computing?

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101 years ago today a massive accidental explosion destroyed much of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Friendship before Facebook: how ‘likes’ and ‘shares’ date back 400 years

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World’s Oldest Wild Bird Just Laid Another Dang Egg

How I Infiltrated One of L.A.’s Most Vicious Motorcycle Gangs – and Lived to Talk About It

Researchers find neural basis for “cute aggression”, the urge to squeeze (or even bite) a cute puppy, or pinch a baby’s cheeks

Researchers use a virus to speed up modern computers

The Dog Who Took the Witness Stand

This Plant Is Driving Its Own Robot

The Long, Strange History of the Electric Wind

A New Connection between the Gut and the Brain

What a Hungry Snail Reveals About Your Grocery Store Breakdowns

Gun No 6: The untold story of Britain’s deadliest illegal firearm

Researchers Just Overcame a Key Barrier to Fusion Power

Getty museum must return 2,000-year-old statue, Italian court rules

On this day in 1916, the women in a small Oregon town took matters into their own hands

Three Ways Quantum Physics Affects Your Daily Life

A woman in Brazil gives birth after surgeons implant a womb in her body from a dead donor

What Human Beings Can Teach Aliens About Probing the Solar System

Bringing balance to the universe: New [hypothesis] could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos

900-year-old gold coins found in Israeli well, presumably hidden from invading crusaders

What Defines a Stem Cell? Scientists Rethink the Answer

The Neurons That Tell Time

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The new Arctic frontier

Inside a 26-Year-Old Man’s History-Making Face Transplant

Sculptor Unknowingly Poisons Herself with Her Own Art

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder

Strange sperm signal species separation

Scientists Just Discovered What May Be Canada’s Largest Cave. And It Looks Like Sarlacc’s Pit.

Rules in Space: An argument for the development of a legal framework for space colonization

The [U.S.] Air Force Will Test Laser Weapons by 2021

Why Are We Suddenly Surrounded by ‘Grift’?

Nasa probe reaches Bennu – asteroid that could one day hit Earth

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The Reason Many Ultra-rich People Aren’t Satisfied With Their Wealth

A 1,000-year-old road lost to time

The Re-beavering of the American West

A novel way to stop the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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