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Video: What’s Hiding at the Most Solitary Place on Earth? The Deep Sea [11:35]
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The children of Donor H898
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The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind-Control Experiments
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40 years ago today two families boarded a homemade balloon bound for freedom in West Germany
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Saturn’s rings shine in Hubble’s latest portrait
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Wannabe Serial Killer Taunted Cops With Zodiac-Like Letters
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Treating Wounds With Magic
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How do you hide a war from your loved one?
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Can cinema still shock?
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Super Planetary-Motion Smackdown: Kepler v. Newton
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The Game That Made Rats Jump for Joy
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Notre-Dame’s Toxic Fallout
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Historic Speed of Light measurements in Southern California
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Study of French postmen’s testicles is an Ig Nobel winner
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The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving
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The most influential scientist you may never have heard of
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Gemini Observatory Captures Multicolor Image of First-ever Interstellar Comet
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A shipwreck worth billions off the coast of Cartagena
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Mysterious waves have been pulsing across Oklahoma
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How Turkish TV is taking over the world
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Peanut Allergy Drug Will Protect Children, Experts Tell F.D.A.
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Black hole at centre of galaxy is getting hungrier, say scientists
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Video: Does Planet 9 Exist? [16:20]
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Study finds the universe might be 2 billion years younger
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Why carbon dioxide has such outsized influence on Earth’s climate
theconversation.com

The Linguistic Innovation Emerging From Rohingya Refugees
forbes.com

‘They wanted me gone’: Edward Snowden tells of whistleblowing, his AI fears and six years in Russia
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The bizarre social history of beds
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On this day in 1848 Phineas Gage survived an iron rod through the skull
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The Truly Baffling Case of the Ancient Voynich Manuscript
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MIT Engineers Have Created the ‘Blackest Black’ to Ever Black
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September 10, 2001 at the World Trade Center’s Windows on the World
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The Editor of Encyclopædia Britannica Once Wrote a Guidebook to Edinburg’s Prostitutes
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Why Everyone Doesn’t Value Choice to the Same Degree
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Mass Graves in Russia Tell the Grim Story of Mongol Invasion
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An artist’s journey into the science of sweat
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The desert soil that could save lives
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The universe might be acting weird. Cosmic ‘lenses’ may help reveal why.
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A Woman’s AncestryDNA Test Revealed a Medical Secret
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The ancient world teemed with birds; now we think with them
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The SR-71 Blackbird’s Predecessor Created “Plasma Stealth” By Burning Cesium-Laced Fuel
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Google Maps shows sunken car where missing man’s body was found
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Who were the ruthless warriors behind Attila the Hun?
nationalgeographic.com

Why Are American Homes So Big?
theatlantic.com

Detecting patients’ pain levels via their brain signals
medicalxpress.com

Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon Io May Not Have a Magma Ocean After All
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Fight or Flight May Be in Our Bones
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The average menstrual cycle is not 28 days
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Transformative? New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness
nytimes.com

Hello From the Year 2050. We Avoided the Worst of Climate Change — But Everything Is Different
time.com

A woman who ran for president in 1872 was compared to Satan and locked up
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Turkey prepares to flood 12,000-year-old city to build dam
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The Life Changing Linguistics of… Nigerian Scam Emails
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The 1979 BART tunnel fire nightmare: 5 minutes from ‘catastrophe’
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A space elevator is possible with today’s technology, researchers say (we just need to dangle it off the moon)
technologyreview.com

Giant Bubbles Spotted Rushing Out from Milky Way’s Center
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Seal ‘helps’ bust alleged international drug ring in Australia
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The Most Powerful Lightning Bolts Occur in the Weirdest Places
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The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe’s Deadliest Horse Race
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How Wi-Fi Almost Didn’t Happen
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