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Teens Who Vape Show Higher Levels of Uranium and Lead, Scientists Find

Slippery Slope: How private equity shapes a ski town

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Virtual reality can motivate people to donate to refugee crises regardless of politics

Image: The moon’s sinister shadow

Brain implants are going obsolete, like old phones. What happens next?

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Enormous ‘San Andreas fault’ on Saturn’s moon could help reveal signs of alien life

The Breach of a Face Recognition Firm Reveals a Hidden Danger of Biometrics

Rare Tornado Spinning the ‘Wrong’ Direction Forms Over Oklahoma

Was the Stone Age Really the Wood Age?

On this day in 1988 a manufacturer of volatile chemicals in Nevada caught fire

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Copper coating turns touchscreens into bacteria killers

Physicists Say They May Have Found a Powerful Glitch in the Universe

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Leprosy passed between medieval squirrels and humans, study suggests

Child Playing in a Sandbox Discovers Ancient Roman Coin Buried Within

Inside the CIA’s Quest to Steal a Soviet Sub Filled With Cold War Secrets

The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes

IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects

When Your Job Is 80 Miles Out at Sea, Getting There Is Half the Battle

‘Nothing Could Prepare Me for the Bizarre ‘Live Birth’ Experience at Babyland Hospital’

How the German State Haphazardly Prosecuted Nazi War Criminals

Some NASA Satellites Will Soon Stop Sending Data Back to Earth

China Launches Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon

Sourdough under the microscope reveals microbes cultivated over generations

Intricate Glass Cups Featuring Gladiators Were Souvenirs in Ancient Rome

The Battle for Attention

Bacteria on the ISS has mutated into something never seen on Earth

Astronomers Think They’ve Found Examples of the First Stars in the Universe

Orangutan seen treating wound with medicinal herb in first for wild animals

100,000 N thrust-powered nuclear rocket could offer fastest Mars trips

Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe ‘Hums’

Optical illusion reveals key brain rule that governs consciousness

How Knot Theory Can Help Spacecraft Can Change Orbits Without Using Fuel

Electric air taxis are on the way – quiet eVTOLs may be flying passengers as early as 2025

This is an Actual Picture of Space Debris

Belugas may communicate by warping a blob of forehead fat

‘On every roof something is possible’: how sponge cities could change the way we handle rain

Neanderthal woman’s face revealed 75,000 years later

Rabbits Are Creatures of the Underworld According to Ancient Fears

Emotional support alligator taken and released in swamp

Lawyer Suing Boeing Surprised to Find Large Piece That Fell Off Boeing Plane Outside His House

Archaeologists Discovered a Haunting Grave That Was Built to Contain Zombies

Inside Ukraine’s Killer-Drone Startup Industry

Here’s what to expect during Boeing Starliner’s 1st astronaut test flight on May 6

Cassava: The perilous past and promising future of a toxic but nourishing crop

Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks [NSFW text]

Inside the quest to map the universe with mysterious bursts of radio energy

Chicago Removes the World-Famous “Rat Hole” From Its Sidewalk

The New Zealand city with a labyrinth of underground caves

How Silk Helped the Armies of Genghis Khan Conquer Asia

Man Finds John Lennon’s Forgotten Guitar in His Father’s Attic