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Britain’s first black voter was in 1749, 25 years earlier than thought, and ran a pub

A new volcanic era

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A deep sea expedition is filming jaw-dropping footage

Hear a Chopin Waltz Unearthed After Nearly 200 Years

Lady Baker and the source of the Nile

We’ve Been Misreading a Major Law of Physics For 300 Years

Anti-immigrant crusader Musk illegally overstayed visa when moving to U.S.

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Astronomers just found complex carbon molecules in space – a step closer to deciphering the origins of life

Most Powerful Gamma Rays Ever Seen in Galaxy’s Center Detected by Scientists

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Is It Fascism? A Leading Historian Changes His Mind.

The mystery of one of Italy’s most iconic pastas

Brain waste-clearance system shown in people for first time

New species of tardigrade reveals secrets of radiation-resisting powers

Humans Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes on The Tibetan Plateau

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Elon Musk’s Secret Conversations With Vladimir Putin

A scientific fraud. An investigation. A lab in recovery.

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The rollercoaster king: the man behind the UK’s fastest thrill-ride

Supernova that lit up Earth’s skies 843 years ago has a flowering ‘zombie star’ at its heart

A Cemetery’s Immortal Residents and the Scientist Who Studies Them

Tomato factory lights mistaken for ‘lovely aurora’

Burmese python swallows deer whole in Florida Everglades by stretching its mouth to the absolute limit

This App Set Out to Fight Pesticides. After VCs Stepped In, Now It Helps Sell Them

How one engineer beat the ban on home computers in socialist Yugoslavia

1st triple black hole system discovered in ‘happy accident’

EviCore, the Company Helping U.S. Health Insurers Deny Coverage for Treatments

‘I tried to solve a mystery about my family. I got more than I bargained for.’

Why We Ghost: The psychology of people who cut off all communication

A Geological Time Bomb: Remembering the Night That Yellowstone Exploded

Anyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your Brain

Inventing Silk Roads

Scientists Revived a Pig’s Brain Nearly a Whole Hour After It Died

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DNA has been modified to make it store data 350 times faster

Human brain can process certain sentences in ‘blink of an eye’, says study

The Enterprising Woman Who Built—and Lost, and Rebuilt—a Booming Empire During the Klondike Gold Rush

Carbon capture material “cleans air entirely of carbon” say excited scientists

The Most Fascinating Abandoned Subway Stations in NYC

AI Is Making It Easier for Scammers to Steal Homes From Their Owners

“America’s Literary Giant.” On the Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe in Vietnam

A Feathered Murder Mystery at 10,000 Feet

Earthquakes might trigger Yellowstone’s Steamboat geyser

NOAA releases imagery from world’s first operational space-based coronagraph

In 1924 a risqué silent film featured a woman as US president – what happened on screen in the 100 years that followed?

How Do Merging Supermassive Black Holes Pass the Final Parsec?

The brain collector: the scientist unravelling the mysteries of grey matter

Peter Todd in hiding after being “unmasked” as bitcoin creator

Terrawatch: mystery of Siberian explosive craters solved

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