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Scientists accidentally bred the fish version of a liger

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New episode of the Dang Interesting Week podcast: CSI: Murder Hornet Edition

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Skin of Deep Sea Fish Is One of the Blackest Materials Known on Earth

Iranian Spies Accidentally Leaked Videos of Themselves Hacking

Suspect Arrested in Grisly Killing of Fahim Saleh

How the advent of nuclear weapons changed the course of history

Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware

NASA Delays James Webb Telescope Launch Date, Again

What if the Trinity test had failed?

Drug cartel ‘narco-antennas’ make life dangerous for Mexico’s cell tower repairmen

‘Things Are Not as Expected’: Inside Rome’s New Normal

The Oddball Dolphin of Dingle

Gallery: Photographer Updates Postcards Of 1960s Resorts Into Their Abandoned Ruins

Did Billionaire Tobacco Heiress Doris Duke Get Away With Murder?

The problem with perfectionists

We know where the 7 wonders of the ancient world are—except for one

15 Different Ideas for Rovers That Could Explore Venus

Nuclear Tests Have Changed, but They Never Really Stopped

Why is the speed of light the way it is?

Solar Orbiter: Closest ever pictures taken of the Sun

In a first, astronomers watch a black hole’s corona disappear, then reappear

End-of-life study explains what really happens when you hear your last words

One of the Last Living Manhattan Project Scientists Looks Back at the Atomic Bomb Tests

How to talk to conspiracy theorists—and still be kind

Scientists strapped a tiny camera to a beetle to test just how small video technology can get

How a velvet ant (which is a wasp) got its white fluff

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How One Man Turned The Busiest International Border Crossing In North America Into The Centerpiece Of His Empire

On this day in 1942 a war plane crash-landed in Greenland, not to be seen again for 50 years

The ghostly radio station that no one claims to run

What’s killing Botswana’s elephants? Here are the top theories.

The MP3 At 25: How A Digital File Dynamited The Music Industry

The Sun Only Shines Because Of Quantum Physics

Fertility rate: ‘Jaw-dropping’ global crash in children being born

K-Ships vs. U-Boats

Can you fire a gun in space?

How Gödel’s Proof Works

Competitive hotdog eaters nearing limit of human performance

Video: The First Time We Met a Comet, We Blew a Hole in It [5:14]

Blast sends star hurtling across the Milky Way

Everything is cake: Scientists explain why the viral trend tickles the brain

The images that fought the Nazis

Team Lioness: the Kenyan women rangers risking their lives for wildlife

Gallery: The 2020 Audubon Photography Awards

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‘I trekked to a nuclear crater to see where the Atomic Age first began’

The Internet of Fake-Baby Conspiracy Theories

Vision scientists discover why humans literally don’t see eye to eye

How Astronomers Learned to ‘Listen’ to Gravitational Waves

Powerful eruptions on the Sun might trigger earthquakes

The Winnebago Heli-Home Was a Real Flying RV

Andean condor can fly for 100 miles without flapping wings

Are Ultraviolet Sanitizing Lights Safe for Humans?

Baiae: A Roman settlement at the bottom of the sea

This tiny B.C community wanted to buy a forest to save it from loggers. The world chipped in