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When MIT and Quaker Oats conducted experiments on unsuspecting young boys
For years, boys at Fernald State School were subjected to experiments using radioactive tracers in oatmeal....
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Florida Fish Are Mysteriously Dying After 'Spinning and Whirling,'
Wildlife biologists are trying to figure out what's killing smalltooth sawfish and other species in Florida....
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Canoes Discovered Northwest of Rome Are Oldest Boats Ever Found in Mediterranean
Made from alder wood, this canoe was thought to have been a fishing boat. Gibaja et...
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A town that kept its nuclear bunker a secret for three decades
West Virginia’s opulent Greenbrier resort has been a playground for princes and politicians since its opening...
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Why birds survived and dinosaurs went extinct after an asteroid hit earth (2020)
A great spotted woodpecker eats a hazelnut. Bird beaks may have allowed the animals to eat...
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Wreck of Shackleton's 'Endurance' Discovered in Icy Antarctic Depths (2022)
Researchers discovered the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, the team announced this week. The ship was...
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Why Were So Many Renaissance Portraits Multisided?
The Renaissance portraits that adorn the walls of the world’s museums hold countless secrets: painted-over underdrawings,...
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The Wide Awakes: A 19th century club of cape-wearing anti-slavery activists
The most consequential political organization in American history didn’t get its start in a party headquarters...
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Century-Old Stone "Tsunami Stones" Dot Japan's Coastline
T.KISHIMOTO, via Wikimedia Commons. At the edge of Aneyoshi, a small village on Japan’s northeastern coast,...
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Mathematician Who Made Sense of the Universe's Randomness Wins Math's Top Prize
Michel Talagrand is the 27th recipient of the Abel Prize, which was first awarded in 2003....
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Plastics Contain Thousands More Chemicals Than Thought, and Most Are Unregulated
Humans produce about 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year. Some chemicals in plastics...
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Why Scientists Are Calling for the Moon to Be Better Protected from Development
The Moon's North Pole NASA/JPL Over the weekend, the U.S. private spacecraft Odysseus, which launched to...
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Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
Mars' orbit has an impact on Earth's oceans and climate in cycles of 2.4 million years,...
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World War II 'Rumor Clinics' Helped America Battle Wild Gossip
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, its enemies weren’t limited to...
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Ancient Texts Can Shed Light on Auroras
A drawing of the aurora observed from Nagoya, Japan, on September 17, 1770. The written description...
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Via ferratas are finally catching on in the United States
By the end of the 2000s, via ferratas had begun pushing westward, with a handful of...
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A decades-long art forgery scheme
Norval Morrisseau was certain. “I did not paint the attached 23 acrylics on canvas,” he wrote...
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Biologists Discover Four New Octopus Species in the Deep Ocean Off Costa Rica
Roughly two miles deep in the Pacific Ocean, on a dark and rocky outcrop near Costa...
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Recovering the Lost Aviators of World War II
Just before dawn on September 10, 1944, the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise...
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Paintings Reveal How the Dutch Adapted to Extreme Weather in the Little Ice Age
On the afternoon of January 2, 1565, an iceberg drifted down the harbor of Delfshaven, a...
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Another Mysterious Roman Dodecahedron Has Been Unearthed in England
The artifact was found during a two-week dig by a volunteer group in the village of...
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For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off from All Human Contact
The Siberian taiga in the Abakan district. Six members of the Lykov family lived in this...
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The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation of the Transavia AirTruk
A rare three-ship formation of TransAvia PL-12 AirTruks led by Ian Bell (in yellow) with Nick...
