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Royal Marines test Gravity jet suit in ship boarding exercise

The Man Struck By a Particle Accelerator Beam

Shipwreck reveals surprising racial diversity of Henry VIII’s England

Researchers Create Free-Floating Animated Holograms That Bring Us One Step Closer to Star Trek’s Holodecks

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3,000-Year-Old Submerged Settlement Discovered in Switzerland

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Mammoth moth which can have 25cm wingspan found by builders working on Queensland primary school

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Out-of-control Chinese rocket expected to fall to Earth in the coming days

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In a First, People Had Their Brain Activity Tracked Remotely During Everyday Life

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How the ‘Queen of Thieves’ Conned French Riviera Wealthy

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Once a Covid hotspot, Italian village now intrigues researchers with ‘super-immune’ cases

Americans who grew up during oil crises drive less as adults

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Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

On this day in 1988 a rocket fuel factory near Henderson, Nevada caught fire

Melting ice reveals first world war relics in Italian Alps

Life and Death on Stromboli Volcano, Lighthouse of the Mediterranean

A Brief History of Transformers (Not the Robot Kind)

Cracking the Mysteries of Venus: New Information on Planet’s Spin and Internal Structure

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What happened to Confederate money after the Civil War?

Harvard gene-editing tool “sneaks” DNA into cells without making cuts

Scientists harness a rare true blue color from nature — in red cabbage

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How one naughty bird cheats with fancy feather structures

Massive flare seen on the closest star to the solar system: What it means for chances of alien neighbors

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In the Andes, Bright Colors Tell the Dark Story of a Dying Lake

New device uses bioluminescent bacteria to track down buried explosives

Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding

Where’s the Dark Matter? Look for Suspiciously Warm Planets

Wild Donkeys and Horses Dig Wells That Provide Water for a Host of Desert Species

Receding glaciers causing rivers to suddenly disappear

A Year Without Germs

High Energy Cosmic Ray Sources Mapped Out for the First Time

Possible new type of glacier just discovered on Mars

Huge Region of Europe Destroyed by Asteroid Impact in Planetary Defense Exercise

NASA solar probe becomes fastest object ever built as it ‘touches the sun’

What the sound of your name says about you

Stars That Race through Space at Nearly the Speed of Light

Why it’s nearly impossible to buy an original Bob Ross painting

Do snakes have ears?