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Facebook “is tearing our societies apart,” whistleblower says in interview

The Ship That Became a Bomb

William Shatner Will Ride Jeff Bezos’s Rocket to Space

‘We wanted to make history’: Michael Jackson’s bizarre year in Bahrain

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The rise of ‘citizen sleuths’: the true crime buffs trying to solve cases

Simulations suggest an Earth or Mars size planet may be lurking out beyond Neptune

Pandora papers: biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich and powerful

Tylenol during mother’s pregnancy linked to ADHD and other developmental disorders in children

Rogue Planets Could be Habitable

Researchers Have Developed a New Kind of ‘Unbreakable’ Glass

Hubble telescope spots celestial ‘eye,’ a galaxy with an incredibly active core

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That stinky armpit smell? It’s not you, it’s your microbiome

Why DARPA’s new hypersonic weapon could pack such a devastating punch

Bach to the future …. how the cello suites survived obscurity to capture the world

The Martians of Budapest

Brain-cleaning sleeping cap gets US Army funding

Who scams the scammers? Meet the scambaiters

Special ops troops ‘hunkered down’ in California airport hangar after nighttime ninja attack

50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company

Why Were These Mysterious Stone Orbs Stashed All Over Neolithic Britain?

“Reverse vaccine” trains immune system not to attack beneficial drugs

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BepiColombo’s first views of Mercury

Everything We Know About Israel’s Robotic Machine Gun

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Doctors in Lithuania find kilo of nails and screws in man’s stomach

X-rays reveal censored portions of Marie Antoinette’s letters to Swedish count

A prolific art forger meets his match in an intrepid FBI investigator, but the con is only just beginning.

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‘I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it’

Grigory Perelman, the maths genius who said no to $1m

Photos: Lava Reaches the Sea on La Palma

A world first: Ocean drone captures video from inside a hurricane

Ancient Americans made art deep within the dark zones of caves throughout the Southeast

How Science Conquered Diphtheria, the Plague Among Children

Remarkable Trees Throughout The World

French Cop Leaves Suicide Note Unmasking Himself as Notorious ‘Grele’ Serial Killer

Some Paleontologists Think They’ve Found Fossilized Dinosaur DNA. Others Aren’t So Sure

Remembering a Daring Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

Radiation to the heart corrects arrhythmia by reactivating younger state

Ancient Cave Sealed For 40,000 Years May Have Been Hideout of The Last Neanderthals

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Creatures of the dawn: How radioactivity unlocked deep time

This is what a solid made of electrons looks like

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New Microscope Technique Provides Real-Time 3D Views

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Walt Disney’s radical vision for a new kind of city