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Psychology has a consciousness problem
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The US Treasury Department was hacked
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Meet The ‘Living Fossil’ That’s Older Than The Dinosaurs (Hint: It Also Survived A Nuclear Blast)
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This May Be the Most Distant Well-Defined Spiral Galaxy Ever Seen by Humans
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It’s the Most Indispensable Machine in the World—and It Depends on This Woman
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Inside an American Rare-Earth Boomtown
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Huge Collection of Free Historical Nature Imagery from the Biodiversity Heritage Library
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Protocells emerge in experiment simulating lifeless world
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Have scientists cracked the best way to drink champagne?
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Crypto fugitive Do Kwon extradited to US over $40bn crash
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The First Ever Times Square Ball Drop Was Held Atop the New York Times Headquarters in 1907
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This super-dense cosmic ‘pasta’ is the strongest material in the Universe
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Whales can live way longer than scientists had thought, with potential lifespans as much as double previous estimates
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How a Diagnosis of Shaken Baby Syndrome Could Send Innocent Parents to Jail
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Understanding Mars Helicopter Ingenuity’s Last Flight On Mars
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Ice cores finger obscure Pacific volcano as cause of 19th century climate disaster
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Insects in the Mail
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Hourglass figure ideal for mastering art of hula hooping, study finds
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Can we use quantum computers to test a radical consciousness theory?
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The Controversial Hams That Helped a French Cathedral Save Its Organ
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A 1903 Fire at a Chicago Theater Killed 602 People, Prompting Enduring Safety Reforms
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When does your brain think something is worth the wait?
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Star Trek’s Cold War
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How a food crisis in India fed America’s library collections
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Astronomers ready for dazzling but brief celestial show after 80-year wait
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Consciously uncoupling: what drives rates of animal divorce?
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The Cosmos Teems with Complex Organic Molecules
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What Made Jimmy Carter Such a Strange President
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Could we ever retrieve memories from a dead person’s brain?
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What The Strange Habits Of An Octopus Can Teach Us About Alien Intelligence
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Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
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The Walmart Effect
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Archaeologists Are Finding Dugout Canoes in the American Midwest as Old as the Great Pyramids of Egypt
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