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Black Hole Paradoxes Reveal a Link Between Energy and Entropy

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Rare spindle-shaped neurons from deep inside the brain recorded for the first time

Belgian man has been receiving pizzas he never ordered for years

Uprisings after pandemics have happened before – just look at the English Peasant Revolt of 1381

Who Owns Buried Treasure?

Why Is China’s Army Still Using Flamethrowers?

On this day in 1979 humans drilled deeper into the Earth than we ever have before—or since

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Chance of finding young Earth-like planets higher than previously thought

Why the Golden Gate Bridge Sounds Like a David Lynch Movie Now

The Sea’s Weirdest Creatures, Now in ‘Staggering’ Detail

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Minneapolis’ ‘long, hot summer’ of ’67 – and the parallels to today’s protests over police brutality

Watch This Black Hole Blow Bubbles

Music Synchronizes the Brains of Performers and Their Audience

Breakthrough psilocybin study uncovers neurochemical origins of human ego

Scientists Found A ‘Mirror Image’ Of Our Planet And The Sun

NASA’s Mole Finally Burrows Its Way Into Mars

Science of ‘Seinfeld’

Inside Hitler’s Plan to Rescue Mussolini from His Failing Regime

Why Sleep Deprivation Kills

The latest episode of the Damn Interesting Week podcast is up now: Ukulele Index

How a peaceful protest at Tiananmen Square turned into a massacre

The History and Future of Telescopes on the Moon

Faster-than-light travel: Is warp drive really possible?

New synthetic red blood cells are even better than the real thing

Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?

The Hidden World of Millipede Sex

The History of Aviation in Posters, Brochures, Badges and Ticket Stubs

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The Incredible Story of the US Army’s Earth-Shaking, Off-Road Land Trains

On this day in 2004 the Killdozer emerged and rampaged a city

‘It was a modern-day lynching’: Violent deaths reflect a brutal American legacy

First life on Earth may actually have been built from both RNA and DNA

Graphene and 2-D materials could move electronics beyond ‘Moore’s law’

A Pristine Pocket of Sky Has Been Identified as Possibly The Cleanest Air on Earth

A Digital Locksmith Has Decoded Biology’s Molecular Keys

Satire could become a seditious act in Hong Kong

Where did the grandeur go?

Einstein’s Lost Hypothesis

Why Ancient Toys Are Elusive Artifacts

Should Ecologists Treat Male and Female Animals like ‘Different Species’?

Researchers discover a new type of matter inside neutron stars

How Capitalism Created Sexual Dysfunction

‘Nonlethal’ Anti-Protest Weapons Can Cause Serious Harm

Are human beings naturally lazy?

Evolution: why it seems to have a direction and what to expect next

The entire universe may once have been spinning all over the place

Vortex Lasers May Be a Boon for Data

Armour-Plated Dinosaur’s Last Meal Found Beautifully Preserved, 110 Million Years Later

Last Person to Receive a Civil War-Era Pension Dies

Nazi diary reveals secret location of WWII treasure under a palace in Poland

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