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New species of tardigrade reveals secrets of radiation-resisting powers

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

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Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

Supernova that lit up Earth’s skies 843 years ago has a flowering ‘zombie star’ at its heart

A Cemetery’s Immortal Residents and the Scientist Who Studies Them

Tomato factory lights mistaken for ‘lovely aurora’

Burmese python swallows deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

1st triple black hole system discovered in ‘happy accident’

EviCore, the Company Helping U.S. Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

‘I tried to solve a mystery about my family. I got more than I bargained for.’

Why We Ghost: The psychology of people who cut off all communication

A Geological Time Bomb: Remembering the Night That Yellowstone Exploded

Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain

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Scientists Revived a Pig’s Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died

‘Cosmic inflation’: did the early cosmos balloon in size? A mirror universe going backwards in time may be a simpler explanation

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DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster

Human brain can process certain sentences in ‘blink of an eye’, says study

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

Carbon capture material “cleans air entirely of carbon” say excited scientists

The Most Fascinating Abandoned Subway Stations in NYC

AI Is Making It Easier for Scammers to Steal Homes From Their Owners

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

A Feathered Murder Mystery at 10,000 Feet

Earthquakes might trigger Yellowstone’s Steamboat geyser

NOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraph

In 1924 a risqué silent film featured a woman as US president – what happened on screen in the 100 years that followed?

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator

Terrawatch: mystery of Siberian explosive craters solved

How moon-landing teams are learning from each other to make the next lunar leap

People who can’t smell breathe differently

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Yes, Electric Eels Really Are Electric, and Capable of Producing 800 Volts of Electricity

JWST Discovers Icy Exoplanet That Looks Like an Eyeball May Have Liquid Ocean

Yes, you can still get scurvy

Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces

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Betelgeuse Betelgeuse? Bright star Betelgeuse likely has a ‘Betelbuddy’ stellar companion

Budget woes and aging infrastructure will force NASA to make tough choices, report says

Hoard of silver coins dating from Norman Conquest is Britain’s most valuable treasure find ever

Why 60 degrees in fall feels different than in the spring

NASA Achieves Impressive Bandwidth with its New Laser Communications System

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The Mayaguez Incident: The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War

Roadside Relics of the USSR

Scientists discover “glue” that holds memory together in fascinating neuroscience breakthrough

A stunning map of the Atlantic Ocean seafloor

Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits

Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW

America’s Earliest Sports Stars Were … Professional Walkers?