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The Perverse Logic of GoFundMe Health Care

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Nanobacteria in the Brain?

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Why People Live In Earthquake Zones

The Forgotten Trans History of the Wild West

At Work, Expertise Is Falling Out of Favor

‘It’s totally unfair’: Chicago, where the rich live 30 years longer than the poor

The Land Where the Internet Ends

A Strange New Blend of Rock and Plastic Is Forming on a Portuguese Island

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were lost on the Moon

Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the World

Japan wants to launch the first ever rover to visit a Martian moon

Scientists have discovered a sea of fresh water under the ocean

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Gallery: 19 iconic trees around the world

A dirty, rotten, double crossing (true) story of what happened to the Italian American mob

Carl Sagan’s Solar Sail Is Finally Ready To Fly

Holding it all in: Containing radioactivity at Chernobyl

Why Chennai, India’s Sixth Biggest City, Has Run Out of Water

NASA Rover on Mars Detects Puff of Gas That Hints at Possibility of Life

An ‘extraordinarily severe’ emergency: the radioactive leak at Harborview

Rogue slug blamed for Japanese railway chaos

‘Building over history’: the prison graveyard buried under a Texas suburb

The Science of Stir Crazy

The Pianist and the Lobster

Five myths about fast food

Fire at Oil Refinery in South Philadelphia Causes Massive Explosions

Gallery: Apollo Training: When Arizona Stood In for the Moon

A ‘Sorceress’ in Brazil, a ‘Wink’ in India: Walmart Pleads Guilty After a Decade of Bribes

Bacteria live on our eyeballs – and understanding their role could help treat common eye diseases

New research reveals plant wonderland inside China’s caves

Giant Squid, Phantom of the Deep, Reappears on Video

Confirmed: NASA Has Been Hacked

The invention that saved a million ships

Hack the Moon: An in-depth interactive history of the Apollo program

Researchers ‘Lost’ 17,000 Wallets in Hundreds of Cities to See What People Would Actually Return

In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?

An Ambitious Search for Aliens Came Up Short—so Astrobiologists Are Thinking Bigger

The secret life of Kim Jong Un

Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings

Night of the Living Painting

The Sky’s Creepiest Parasites

Smoke on the Water: 50 Years After the Cuyahoga Fire

Plastic wrapped in plastic: the wasteful reality of America’s grocery stores

Adrift in the Arctic

Apollo in 50 numbers: The workers

A gay first lady? Yes, we’ve already had one, and here are her love letters.

The Narluga Is a Very Strange Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid

The fake French minister in a silicone mask who stole millions

Gallery: Unseen 9/11 photos bought at house clearance sale

The Spirit of the Inquisition Lives in Science

The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder

Are your tinned tomatoes picked by slave labour?

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ESA’s new mission to intercept a comet

US beekeepers lost 40% of honeybee colonies over past year, survey finds