Mexico to give away ‘El Chapo’ safehouse in lottery

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Mars Sample Return: Bringing home a piece of another planet

56 Percent of Young People Think Humanity Is Doomed

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Michelin’s airless passenger car tires get their first public outing

Human Gut Bacteria Could Be Accumulating Our Medications Without Us Realizing

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Butterflies released in Finland contained parasitic wasps – with more wasps inside

On this day in 1979 two German families made a daring attempt to escape East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon

Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes

Bizarre pig-faced shark found dead in the Mediterranean Sea. Is it real?

Study finds astronaut blood mixed with Mars soil makes ultra-hard concrete

Triple entanglement in silicon marks major quantum computer breakthrough

The Journey to Define Dimension

Rerun of supernova blast expected to appear in 2037

How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity

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World’s Leading Geneticists Aim to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth

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The Polynesian ‘Prince’ Who Took 18th-Century England by Storm

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Snooping Around Manhattan’s Abandoned Art Deco Bank

Color Conundrum: Scientists’ Search for the Blackest Black

Revolt of the NYC Delivery Workers

Here’s what happens when two very different respiratory viruses infect the same cell

Why did the Maya civilization collapse?

Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo

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Escaped zebras bamboozle Maryland officials: ‘They’re just too fast’

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Math Helps Cargo Ships See Into the Future

Artificial cells created that imitate basic functions of living cells

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On this day in 1973 an ambitious 70s era cybernetic experiment was brought to an untimely end

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Cockroaches, staged wrestling and more lies: the peculiar murder trial of Robert Durst

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Spectacular valleys and cliffs hidden beneath the North Sea

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Physicists Glimpse Signs of ‘Triangle Singularity’ in Unexpected First

The Cowboy and the King: Can a cowboy become the greatest polo player of all time?

Protoplanetary Disks Throw Out More Material Than Gets Turned Into Planets

Declassified documents show Australia assisted CIA in coup against Chile’s Salvador Allende

Rain Boots, Turning Tides, and the Search for a Missing Boy

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New Orleans’ billion-dollar levees survived Hurricane Ida. Can they handle what’s coming?

Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed

The Dark Asteroid Ryugu Finally Comes Into the Light

The manager of Windows on the World survived 9/11, while 79 of his employees died. He’s still searching for permission to move on.

Quantum gas free fall experiment creates coldest temperature ever recorded

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NASA is going to slam a spacecraft into an asteroid. Things might get pretty chaotic.

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