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Scientists confirm the presence of a roughly Earth-sized planet in the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri, our sun’s nearest stellar neighbor

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How America’s Proxy Wars in Indonesia and Brazil Set the Stage for the Next 50 Years

How the free press worldwide is under threat

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The trolley problem problem

The Black Investigator Who Went Undercover as a White Man in the Jim Crow South

Why a Nova Scotia community is still searching for the killer of a beloved farmer thirty years later

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The Detective Aboard NASA’s Perseverance Rover

Livestream: The first-ever launch of astronauts from a private company, and the first launch of astronauts from US soil since 2011

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America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms

How polar explorers survived months of isolation without cracking

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Strange New Class of Cosmic Explosions Discovered by Astronomers

Growing Anomalies at the Large Hadron Collider Hint at New Particles

How Dynamite Shaped The World

The Strange Saga of the Rogue Kentucky Constables Who Arrested an FBI Agent

When SimCity got serious: the story of Maxis Business Simulations and SimRefinery

Dinosaur asteroid’s trajectory was ‘perfect storm’

‘The big show’: US poised to return to human spaceflight with historic launch

Why astronomers now doubt there is an undiscovered 9th planet in our solar system

‘Vigorous’ magnetic field oddity spotted over South Atlantic

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The man in the iron lung

The haunting of Girlstown