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Study Pinpoints Origins of Creativity in the Brain

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A new explanation for Jupiter’s shrinking Great Red Spot

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Hidden Tunnels Discovered Under 1,500-Year-Old Church in Istanbul

How NASA and SpaceX will deorbit and destroy the ISS

Is there a hottest temperature possible in the universe?

Researchers track individual neurons as they respond to words

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The Man Who Created the Trade Paperback

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Juke in the Box

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Common blood-thinning drug neutralises cobra venom

The Real Story Behind the Baltimore Deaths That Inspired ‘Lady in the Lake’

The Odds That Aliens Exist Just Got Worse

Who killed the world?

Experimental Radar Technique Reveals the Composition of Titan’s Seas

Glasgow nurse’s lost journal reveals World War One art therapy

On this day in 1917 the residents of Clipperton Island took matters into their own hands

How to reboot the Large Hadron Collider

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The Sing Sing Follies (A Maximum Security Comedy)

Britain Approves Lab-Grown Meat for Pet Food

Defending the Planet: How NASA Supercomputers Capture Hypothetical Asteroid Impacts

Anti-aging drug extends life up to 25%, staves off frailty and disease

When a Mammogram Misses Breast Cancer

Thousands of endangered bird eggs worth $500,000 seized in Australia

Going Postal at the Qiaopiju

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