China Is Building a Solar Station in Space That Could Generate Practically Endless Power

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Woman who lived to age 117 had genes keeping her cells ‘younger’, study shows

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Humans Have Been Perfecting Avocados for 7,500 Years

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‘By bribery, by bluff, by corrupting officials’: How Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jewish people during World War Two

The Case of the Missing Elvis

The sound of clapping, explained by physics

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An Unimaginable New Laser Has the Energy of 1 Million Nuclear Plants

The Remarkable Tree Climbing Goats of Morocco

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Can melatonin supplements really ‘reverse’ DNA damage caused by lack of sleep?

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Tennessee man shot by his dog while lying in bed

The life and death of a creek and pulp mill

A New Study Finds That Domestic Cats Traveled the Silk Road to China About 1,400 Years Ago

Water Droplets Are Generating Electricity in a Way We Never Knew

2,200-year-old grave in China contains ‘Red Princess of the Silk Road’ whose teeth were painted with a toxic substance

Saturn Gains 128 New Moons, Bringing Its Total to 274

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NASA’s newest space telescope Spherex blasts off to map the entire sky and millions of galaxies

The most expensive drug ever approved: A gene therapy that cures butterfly skin and could cost $20 million per patient

Winners of the 2025 Sony World Photography Awards Open Competition

Will the U.S. collapse like the Soviet Union did?

Scientists Confirm the Incredible Existence of ‘Second Sound’

Four tiny planets are orbiting one of our nearest stars

Is ‘Severance’ making your dog freak out?

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How Ancient Volcanoes Helped Create the Air We Breathe Today

Watch sparks fly as Blue Ghost lander drills into the moon (video)

Kissing moons may explain why Earth’s moon is so large

The Secret Apartments Hidden Above Carnegie Libraries

Onfim’s doodle: A 13th-century kid’s self-portrait on horseback, slaying an enemy

Sleep Study Made People Sleep With One Eye Open and Found Unexpected Brain Activity

18th-Century Satire, Communist Anthem, 1950s Pop Song: The Many Lives of Mack the Knife

‘My Grandpa, the Fascist?’

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Male blue-lined octopuses inject females with venom during sex to avoid being eaten, study shows

The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher

This isolated North Carolina island preserves the Hoi Toider dialect–a mix of Elizabethan English and pirate slang, in Irish and Scottish accents

Developer convicted for “kill switch” code activated upon his termination

Highly expressive ancient puppets found in Salvadorian pyramid

Mysterious Skeleton of Child With Human and Neanderthal Traits Has Finally Been Dated by Archaeologists

Scientists Found the World’s Largest Clone in the Baltic Sea

Strange Squeaks: A Uniquely Human Gene Alters Mouse “Songs”

The Worst 7 Years in Boeing’s History—and the Man Who Won’t Stop Fighting for Answers

On this day in 1944, police in occupied Paris were alerted to a foul-smelling smoke emerging from a fine arrondissement

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Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler’s downfall

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