How Gothic Architecture Became Spooky

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A Skeleton Bank of Understudied Species

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A Giant Structure in Space Challenges Our Understanding of The Universe

The complex considerations that magicians face when exposing the tricks of their trade

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If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow

‘It’s a unique language spoken by two people’: The twins who created their own language

We Are Living in a Golden Age of Apples

‘Whale orgy’ off southern Australia a promising sign for southern right species

Scientists discover a promising way to create new superheavy elements

This Flipping Ship Just Escaped the Wrecker’s Claws—And Her Story Is Mind-Blowing!

The U.S. empire was built on bird dung

Can Wild Animals Experience Trauma? Yes — And It Changes Them Completely

Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub

A new volcanic era

‘Visual clutter’ alters information flow in the brain

A deep sea expedition is filming jaw-dropping footage

Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years

Lady Baker and the source of the Nile

We’ve Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For 300 Years

Anti-immigrant crusader Musk illegally overstayed visa when moving to U.S.

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NASA Astronaut Has ‘Medical Issue’ After SpaceX Splashdown

Astronomers just found complex carbon molecules in space – a step closer to deciphering the origins of life

Most Powerful Gamma Rays Ever Seen in Galaxy’s Center Detected by Scientists

Experience: ‘I do hair and makeup for the dead’

Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

The mystery of one of Italy’s most iconic pastas

Brain waste-clearance system shown in people for first time

New species of tardigrade reveals secrets of radiation-resisting powers

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

Image: Star cluster NGC 602 from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope

Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.

Meet the Italian ‘Fruit Detective’ Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table

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

Inventing Silk Roads

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

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