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Subway sues journalists for reporting its chicken is only 50% chicken—and loses

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This Meteorite-Munching Microbe Might Explain How Life Emerged on Earth

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Once-a-month birth control pill? Experiment works in animals

The Chinese City Famous for Eggs With Two Yolks

How the U.S. hydrogen bomb secrets disappeared

New study hints at complex decision making in a single-cell organism

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This Is Why Scientists Will Never Exactly Solve General Relativity

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The Gruesome and Heroic Afterlife of Peter the Dog

The Case of the Felonious Bread

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A Deadly Day of Chaos at the Top of Mount Everest

Landslides Work Differently on Mars, and Now We Might Know Why

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Buried Treasures: Researching the History of the Time Capsule

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How Microbiomes Affect Fear

Giant planet found around tiny white dwarf star, a first

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Concussions Damage the ‘Bridge’ Between the Two Halves of the Brain

Scientists are growing mini-intestines that stretch and bulge just like the real thing

Using viruses to help control an agricultural pathogen

Abandoned as a newborn and called ‘dumpster baby,’ he’s now an entrepreneur worth millions

Scientists Made Working Fiber Optic Cables Out of Wood

Inside India’s Lost Temple City Where Monkeys Rule

Why Do People Cheat? (Because They Often Win)

This Isn’t the First Baby Bust

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The Pure Chaos of Magnetic Fields May Explain The Intense Shine of Black Holes

Archeologists Accidentally Stumble Upon 1,000-Year-Old Ship Buried on a Norwegian Farm

Did a million years of rain jump-start dinosaur evolution?

China gene-edited baby experiment ‘may have created unintended mutations’

He’s a Serial Con Artist. His Word Might Soon Send a Man to His Death.

Harmful Bacteria Masquerade as Red Blood Cells to Evade the Immune System

Where cats get their own staircases

Tame foxes taught us about animal domestication. But did we get the story wrong?

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