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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

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The Case of the Missing Chacmools

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Traffic engineers build roads that invite crashes because they rely on outdated research and faulty data

Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

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How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number

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Animal homosexual behaviour under-reported by scientists, survey shows

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Coke, Pepsi Pledged to Quit Russia Over Ukraine But Are Still There

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Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision

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Fast Crimes at Lambda School

The exponential growth of solar power will change the world

This Is The First Animal Ever Found That Doesn’t Need Oxygen to Survive

Archaeologists Recover 900 Artifacts From Ming Dynasty Shipwrecks in South China Sea

How generative AI could reinvent what it means to play

Photographer Dangles From Helicopter To Capture Beautiful Abstract Landscapes From Above

These Are the Most Beautiful Equations in Mathematics

Grolar bear hybrids in Northwest Territories all traced back to same ‘strange’ female polar bear

Cargo from ‘most ancient’ shipwreck found off Israel

Protecting pink river dolphins: Fernando Trujillo’s quest to save aquatic life in the Amazon

One of Humanity’s Greatest Architectural Feats Will Be Dismantled Soon — What Happens Next?

The Ocean Floor Is Dangerous. We Should Keep Exploring It.

Videos Show That Leeches Can Jump in Pursuit of Blood

‘The Cousin I Never Knew’

How to stay safe during lightning storms – summer is the highest-risk season

Britain’s Embrace of the Bomb

The Delusion of Advanced Plastic Recycling Using Pyrolysis

NASA Releases Hubble Image Taken in New Pointing Mode

Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable

U.S. home prices have far outpaced paychecks since 1990

Scientists think they know why humans live so long: Moms

The Strange Journey of John Lennon’s Stolen Patek Philippe Watch

Book about book bans banned by Florida school board

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Poisoned trees gave a wealthy couple a killer view — and united residents in outrage