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New Quantum Microscope Can See Tiny Structures in Living Cells

Scientists Say Dark Matter Could Be Hiding Inside an Extra Dimension

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Astronomers discover nearby exoplanet with substantial atmosphere

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Possible Explanation Discovered for Elusive Dark-Matter-Free Galaxies

What Makes Quantum Computing So Hard to Explain?

ISS Artificial Gravity Study Shows Promise For Long Duration Spaceflight

The elephant vanishes: how a circus family went on the run

New tech cheaply produces lithium and H2, while desalinating seawater

Bitcoin: El Salvador makes cryptocurrency legal tender

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NASA’s Juno spacecraft captures astonishing views of icy moon Ganymede

Deciphering the Mysterious Minoan Language of Ancient Crete

Blaming Our Genes: The Heritability of Behavior

Trojan Shield: How the FBI Secretly Ran a Phone Network for Criminals

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Huge two-day underwater avalanche sent mud 1,000km into ocean

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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax

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New dinosaur species discovered in Australia, one of world’s biggest

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MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity

Aurora created in a lab

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How UFO Sightings Went From Conspiracy Theory To A Serious Government Inquiry

Signs of Ancient Microbial Life Abundant in Earth’s Crust: Study

These ferns may be the first plants known to share work like ants

We’ve identified a gene variant that seems to make people immune to the effects of COVID

Interactive: Click this map to watch the path of a raindrop to the sea anywhere in the contiguous United States

Scientists Simulate Alien Volcanoes Here on Earth

Who were the Illuminati?

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On this day in 1837 Alois Schicklgruber was born

How virus detectives trace the origins of an outbreak – and why it’s so tricky

Weird “wheel animals” wriggle back to life after 24,000 years frozen

The rise and fall of the world’s largest lake

A new material made from carbon nanotubes can generate electricity by scavenging energy from its environment

Is Earth’s Core Lopsided? Something Strange Is Going On in Our Planet’s Interior

Shackled skeleton identified as rare evidence of slavery in Roman Britain

People have abandoned hundreds of cats on a deserted Brazilian island. Officials aren’t sure how to save them.

Photographer captures ‘odd but exciting’ crow behaviour known as anting

David Dushman, last surviving Auschwitz liberator, dies aged 98

A day in the life of a flavour inventor

How a ghostly outline revealed the secret of Modigliani’s lost lover

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Why Cuba couldn’t control the internet

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