Astronomers find three potential super-Earths around nearby star

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The happy microbiome: how to nourish all of yours – from mouth to gut to vagina

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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter

What the 3.2 million-year-old Lucy fossil reveals about nudity and shame

Earth’s Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes We’re Only Starting to Understand

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Anti-aging molecule successfully restores multiple markers of youth

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Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

Family whose roof was damaged by space debris files claims against NASA

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This Startup Claimed Its Blood Transfusions Could Reverse Aging. Then, the FDA Stepped In

Silent Saviour: How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Lives in WWII

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How traffic noise hurts children’s brains

Easter Island study casts doubt on theory of ‘ecocide’ by early population

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Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined

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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown function of blinking

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The Cocaine Consumer’s Handbook, 1976

A journalist shot by police while covering the 2020 protests is dying of her injuries

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Traffic engineers build roads that invite crashes because they rely on outdated research and faulty data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

The Problem With Erik: Privilege, Blackmail, and Murder for Hire in Austin

How the Square Root of 2 Became a Number

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Radioactive drugs strike cancer with precision

Fraying at the Edges: Her Fight to Live With Alzheimer’s

Never-before-seen dinosaur’s unique headgear earns it a godly name

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