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“Once-in-a-millennium” rogue wave crashes into the record books
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New MoviePass App Will Use Eye Tracking To Force You To Watch Ads
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Why Are Letters Shaped the Way They Are?
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Marise Chiverella: Cold case murder of 9-year-old Pennsylvania girl solved nearly 58 years later
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Northern Powergrid accidentally sends out compensation cheques for trillions of pounds
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Mysteries of Stephen Hawking’s doodle-filled blackboard may finally be solved
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Life in the soil was thought to be silent. What if it isn’t?
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Nuclear explosion in space: Neutron star blast is so rare we may never see one again
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Has Literature Ever Changed the Course of History?
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The dropout, a history: from postwar paranoia to a Summer of Love
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She was headed to a locked psych ward. Then an ER doctor made a startling discovery.
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5 million shipwrecked Legos still washing up 25 years after falling overboard
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Inside the Bitcoin Laundering Case That Confounded the Internet
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Ghost village emerges in Spain as drought empties reservoir
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Anti-aging mechanism of calorie restriction identified in Yale study
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Her boyfriend killed her son but she went to jail
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In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice
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66 years ago, the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tried LSD — and ignited a controversy still raging today
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Ancient chalk sculpture is ‘most important prehistoric art’
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Winners of the 2022 Underwater Photographer of the Year Contest
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The Best Optical Illusions of the Year
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NASA to unveil 1st images from James Webb Space Telescope today. Here’s where to find them.
space.com

Video: The Italy-Switzerland border is melting [4:55]
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Life could exist on planet orbiting ‘white dwarf’ star
bbc.com

Asteroid Ryugu samples, now on Earth, reveal inner workings of the space rock
space.com

The Missing Persons Investigator Who Went Missing Herself
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Video: 🚛 🚗 The Interstate’s Forgotten Code 🚗 🚛 [8:29]
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Video: How to Make Money in Prison [6:34]
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How Einstein Arrived at His Theory of General Relativity
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Surprising study finds screen use before bed can actually help you sleep
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Jim Crow’s Civil Defense Plans
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Mystery Tsunami That Spread Around The World in 2021 Can Finally Be Explained
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Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun’s closest star
nature.com

The Wild, Wonderful World of Estate Sales
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Russian gallery security guard accused of drawing eyes on painting
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‘Neanderthal Pompeii’: dig places humans in Europe earlier than thought
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Parker Solar Probe Captures Visible Light Images of Venus’ Surface
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We Finally Understand how Black Holes can Release Powerful Flares
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Quantum Complexity Tamed by Machine Learning
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That Quiet Couple Next Door Who Brought Magic Mushrooms to the Masses
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The different lives of fringe and strange scientific ideas
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Imaginary Numbers Are Reality
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‘Alcoholism and me: I was an addicted doctor, the worst kind of patient’
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What happens when we let people sleep when they want to?
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The First Quadruple Asteroid: Astronomers Spot a Space Rock With 3 Moons
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How the view from space might be key to saving the planet
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Scientists Have Seen the Largest Comet Ever: 15 Mount Everests
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Oh, Just a Decaying Soviet City in the Middle of the Sea
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How the World’s Greatest Aircraft Carrier Became a $13 Billion Fiasco
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National winners impress in the 2022 Sony World Photography Awards
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Donald Goines, Detroit’s Crime Writer Par Excellence
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Mazda Owners Near Seattle Find Their Radios Are Permanently Stuck on NPR
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What happens if you get diarrhea in space?
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Massive review shows “science” behind most mental-health apps is wildly flawed
inverse.com

Extreme Hubble photo shows a galaxy ripping solar systems from another galaxy
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How to live with your regrets
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You’re (Maybe) Gonna Need a Patent for That Woolly Mammoth
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40+ SpaceX satellites to fall out of orbit after geomagnetic storm
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