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Virgin Galactic takes its first tourists to the edge of space

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The Life of a Lawyer in the Late Roman Republic

Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon

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Presidential Candidate Assassinated in Ecuador Just Days Before Election

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The Next Human Genome Challenge

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How the Smallest Butterfly in North America Travels Using Gusts of Wind

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Scientists Just Scanned the Brain of an Animal That’s Been Extinct for 87 Years

Scientists create experimental Alzheimer’s vaccine that delays symptoms in mice

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When Lord Byron Tried to Buy a Twelve-Year-Old Girl

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On this day in 1945, 29-year-old Tsutomu Yamaguchi survived his second atomic bomb

She invited four people over for lunch. A week later, three were dead.

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