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The Fox in the Time Machine

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Mexican scientist cures the Human Papilloma Virus

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New pill can deliver insulin

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Asia’s ‘dead’ lake where boats can’t float

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The battle for the future of Stonehenge

A New Way to Keep Mosquitoes From Biting

Bed Used in Hotel for 15 Years Turns Out to Be Henry VII’s Marriage Bed

LRO sees Chinese lander on the Moon’s far side

India man to sue parents for giving birth to him

Many types of marine plankton are either animal-like or plant-like, but a huge number are both

Scientists Reveal How a Fatty Diet Helped Develop Bigger Brains

How Supermassive Black Holes Were Discovered

The Cadaver Synod: Putting a Dead Pope on Trial

The Dirty Secret of El Chapo’s Downfall

Dyatlov Pass cold case reopened by Russian police, who say nine skiers died of ‘natural phenomena’

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My disabled son – ‘the nobleman, the philanderer, the detective’

Scientists discover new type of magnet

Beyond Mars, the Mini MarCO Spacecraft Fall Silent

The Life Cycle of a Stolen Gun

How do you feed astronauts on a journey that lasts millennia?

Slaking the World’s Thirst with Seawater Dumps Toxic Brine in Oceans

What It’s Like to Survive Being Shot 16 Times

The class pay gap: why it pays to be privileged

Bees Can Solve Math Problems That Would Stump the Average Toddler

New physical effect demonstrated after 40 year search

The Psychology of Belief: How your brain distorts the world to support your emotional attachments to certain ideas

‘It was rotting in me’: How Kerri Rawson came to forgive her father, the notorious BTK killer

Almaty spills its secrets: lost Soviet art discovered behind wall

The Expat English Teachers’ Murderous Triangle

The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future

Dying bacteria absorb antibiotic, allowing others to survive and grow

Active-Shooter Drills Are Tragically Misguided

Humans Are Eating Most of Earth’s Largest Animals to Extinction

In Case of Emergency, Print Money

Lost Forefathers of Pizza in America Discovered

Death and Valor on an American Warship Doomed by its Own Navy

The Saturn V Story: From Nazi Roots to America’s Moon Rocket

Science history: The man who invented the Periodic Table

Ahead Of 2020 Summer Olympics, A Building Boom In Kyoto Is Yielding Ancient Artifacts

He said his wife and son moved to South Korea. Decades later, a detective learned the truth.

Why this Toronto firefighter may never know what happened on his puzzling journey across the U.S.

Call for retraction of 400 scientific papers amid fears organs came from Chinese prisoners

The Northern and Southern Lights Are Asymmetric Dancers in the Dark

This Dinosaur Had a Mohawk of Horns