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The Family: ‘Raised in a doomsday cult, I entered the real world at 15’

How K-pop is luring young North Koreans to cross the line

How Men’s Bodies Change When they Become Fathers

Inside the Twisted, Worldwide Hunt for a $7 Million Stolen Car

The Curse of Playing the Wicked Witch of the West

What Albert Einstein owes to David Hume

The Big Business of Scavenging in Postindustrial America

Woman Finds 3.72-Carat Yellow Diamond While Watching YouTube Video on How to Find Diamonds

33 years ago today a cloud of deadly gas erupted from a lake and killed over 1,700 people

What Is Dark Energy?

Scientists Are Discovering Long-Lost Rules for Ancient Board Games

Sartre’s Bad Trip

The Racism of Carl Jung

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YouTube has removed videos of robots fighting, citing “animal cruelty”

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How Guillotine Haircuts became all the Rage in France

A brief history of the Vikings

‘My Life With Face Blindness’

You Won’t See Quantum Internet Coming

Why a Promising, Potent Cancer Therapy Isn’t Used in the US

The Invention of Dessert

Way Before Roller Coasters, Russians Zipped Down Enormous Ice Slides

Why cashier’s checks are part of so many online scams

Titanic sub dive reveals parts are being lost to sea

Beatings, murders and prisoners set on fire: inside the prison called ‘gangland’

On this day in 1981 Dr. Julie Cliff received a telex about a mysterious malady in Mozambique

Blow to 10,000-hour rule as study finds practice doesn’t always make perfect

Think ‘like’ began with Valley Girls? Guess again.

Air pollution linked to bipolar disorder, depression

The Cold War spy technology which we all use

India’s Skeleton Lake contains the bones of mysterious European migrants

The Bloody Benders: America’s First Family of Serial Killers

A young Indian couple married for love. Then the bride’s father hired assassins.

Scientists finally know how big earthquakes start: With many smaller ones

When a $2.1 Million Drug Could Cure Your Child’s Fatal Disease

Huge hoard of dinosaur bones found in Wyoming

The Planet Needs a New Internet

Colossal crabs may hold clue to Amelia Earhart fate

Beware the Epiphany-Industrial Complex

When a Volcano in El Salvador Cooled Down the Entire World

In the Straits: The Story of the Inmate Turned Millionaire Turned Lone Survivor

In 897, the corpse of a pope was exhumed—to be put on trial.

A Trailblazing Plan to Fight California Wildfires

The Philippines has spent three decades restoring the biggest clams in the world

Can New Species Evolve From Cancers? Maybe. Here’s How.

A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn’t Learn in School

The cult of Columbine: how an obsession with school shooters led to a murder plot

What the voice inside your head says about you

Earth’s inner core is doing something weird

Speedgate, the sport invented by artificial intelligence

Cave Diver Risks All To Explore Places ‘Where Nobody Has Ever Been’

New model agrees with old: Nuclear war between US and Russia would result in nuclear winter

NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet’s Surface

N.Y.P.D. Detectives Gave a Boy, 12, a Soda. He Landed in a DNA Database.

Surprising talents of the Neanderthals

Saturn, Not Earth Or Jupiter, Has The Largest Storms In Our Solar System

Scientists detect a black hole swallowing a neutron star