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Science’s Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond

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The lawyer who defended dictators, tyrants and terrorists for crimes against humanity

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How the Soviet Union’s end sparked a grand rewilding

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The 432-year-old manual on social distancing

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Identical twins are not so identical, study suggests

How Boston Dynamics Taught Its Robots to Dance

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Now It Can Be Told: How Neil Sheehan Got the Pentagon Papers

The Hidden Meaning of a Notorious Experiment

One of the most remarkable “sixth” senses in the animal kingdom is magnetoreception

Scenes From an American Insurrection

The Archaeologist Who Collected 4,500 Beer Cans

Discovery of two-million-year-old tools shows human adaptability: scientist

Jellyfish Build Walls of Water to Swim Around the Ocean

These painstakingly preserved plants are still radiant centuries later

800 MPH in a Jet-Powered Car

How six brothers – and their lions – terrorised a Libyan town

Why Huygens father and son personify the scientific revolution

Her Best Friend Was Her Secret Stalker

Space Telescope Shows Galaxy-Size Bubbles Over the Milky Way

The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth

Why being creative is good for you

We Know Almost Nothing About Giant Viruses

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This ‘Unusual Star’ Is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen Before

The Autonomous-Car Chaos of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge

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Astronomers Find a Beautiful 6-Planet System in Almost Perfect Orbital Harmony

Rise of the Clones: The ways cloning is already happening

The story of a secret CIA spyplane, a long-hidden crash, and the man who had to find it

Liquid glass discovered as new state of matter

Photographs of The Romanovs’ Final Ball In Color, St Petersburg, Russia 1903

Salty Seas Make Lightning Brighter

NASA suspects sunquakes are coming from deep beneath the sun’s surface

The six numbers that define the entire Universe

Chatting With the Dead

Why We’re Prone to Denial

Inside the U.S. Army’s Warehouse Full of Nazi Art

To Make Japan’s Original Sushi, First Age Fish for Several Months

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