A Surprisingly High Number of Wildfires Are Caused by Electrocuted Birds

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In the waning days of the Cold War, Rainer Sonntag helped fuel a neo-Nazi movement that still plagues Germany today

China Reveals Massive Project to Find ‘Earth 2.0’

An Art Crime For the Ages

Emmett Till: family seeks arrest after discovery of unserved 1955 warrant

CEO test-drives Mojo Vision’s smart augmented reality contact lens

Underwater Wine Jars Suggest How Romans Kept Wine Safe And Flavorful

The Weird, Analog Delights of Foley Sound Effects

Why Strong Magnets React to Copper

First Webb Images Will Include Exoplanet Data and the Deepest-Ever Image of the Universe

Inside the ‘Chitlin Circuit,’ a Jim Crow-Era Safe Space for Black Performers

Harvard’s acoustic computer chip uses sound waves to encode data

AI could improve welfare of farmed chickens by listening to their squawks

Controversy Continues Over Whether Hot Water Freezes Faster Than Cold

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Ten Years of CRISPR

The genetic power of ancient trees

She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

Physicists confront the neutron lifetime puzzle

Early human fossils are a million years older than expected

Chilli peppers, coffee, wine: how the climate crisis is causing food shortages

Video: Why roller coaster loops aren’t circular [6:26]

Long-term liquid water also on non-Earth-like planets?

Nazi-Looted Painting Returned to 101-Year-Old Dutch Woman

How three sisters (and their mom) tried to swindle the CRA out of millions

101-Year-Old Former Nazi Camp Guard Jailed for 5 Years

Can Rebranding Invasive Carp Make It More Appealing to Eat?

How Dragonflies Make the Most Extraordinary Journey in Nature

Mars Has So Much Radiation, Any Signs of Life Would Be Buried Six Feet Under

Cygnus cargo ship allows US to control ISS orbit without Russian help

On this day in 1905, Dr. Beaurieux attempted to converse with a freshly severed head, for science

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There’s a Surprising Similarity Between The Brains of Humans And Octopuses

Video: German prosecutors in race against time to try last Nazis over WWII crimes [4:39]

Jason Brassard Spent His Lifetime Collecting the Rarest Video Games. Until the Heist.

New Data from the Gaia Space Telescope is Helping Reveal the Secret Lives of Asteroids

Incredible Virus Discovery Offers Clues About the Origins of Complex Life

Can a corporation “own” a color?

Evidence of Non-Terrestrial Objects Surveilling Earth Could Be Revealed in New Research Effort

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The mathematics of human behaviour: how a new model can spot liars and counter disinformation

Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments

How Pearl Meat Became Australia’s Newest Luxury Ingredient

Imperial Science and the Company’s Museum

Wearable muscles offer an impressive upper-body endurance boost

Why criticism lasts longer than praise

‘I Am Very Tall’

VY Canis Majoris is Dying, and Astronomers are Watching

New DNA Technology Is Shaking Up The Branches of The Evolutionary Tree

Friends at first sniff: People drawn to others who smell like them

Explorers find the world’s deepest shipwreck four miles under the Pacific

Flu Vaccination Linked to 40% Lower Risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

The Maldives Has a Floating City Underway

Russia is disappearing Ukrainian civilians. Their families want answers

World’s First Solar-Powered Car Is Ready To Hit the Road

‘She’s perfect and she’s beautiful’: Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields

The archive saving home sewing history from the trash

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