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Eavesdropping on fish could help us keep better tabs on underwater worlds

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Exploding space junk puzzles California sky watchers

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Mariner 10, a mission of firsts, used gravity to bend its way from Venus to Mercury

Everyone in Japan will be called Sato by 2531 unless marriage law changed, says professor

How Kids Cornered the Market on Lemonade

‘In 1994, I was the last person sent to prison in the UK for being gay – and I’m still being punished today’

Some people may see more images per second than others, study finds

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Person Infected With Bird Flu in Texas After Contact With Cattle

Why there’s a revolution on the way in glass making

The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’

Where Are All These Rogue Planets Coming From?

We were very wrong about birds

Milk on ice: Antarctic time capsule of whole milk powder sheds light on the enduring qualities of dairy products

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Why is there so much lead in American food?

Researchers find WWI and WWII bombs in the ground are becoming more volatile

She Might Have Inspired One of Netflix’s Biggest Shows. She Died Last Month. No One Wrote About It.

Rare Eyewitness Sketch of American Revolutionaries Found Hanging in a Collector’s Bedroom

Old Newspaper Stories Offer Clues to 19th-Century Shipwreck in Lake Michigan

Sheffield: ‘Incredibly lucky’ man survives parachute failure

If brain transplants like the one in Poor Things were possible, this is how they might work

James Webb Space Telescope joins the hunt for newborn exoplanets

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Here’s why some pigeons do backflips

‘Britain’s Schindler’: The man who saved 669 children from the Nazis

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Ancient Marine Tapeworm Found Encased in 99-Million-Year-Old Amber

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Hubble sees new star proclaiming its presence with cosmic light show

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

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