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A 13th-Century Arabic Text Exposed How Monks Faked Their Miracles
Religious fraud is not a modern invention. Long before televised faith healers and radio earpieces,…
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Iceland Throws Baby Puffins Off Cliffs and It Might Save the Species
More than 3,000 baby puffins were rescued from the streets, gardens, and industrial areas of a single Icelandic town in…
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A Medieval Poetry Guide for Beginners That Was Anything But Basic
A medieval writing teacher once opened his poetry manual with a disarming promise: “This little…
History
The Byzantines Had a Name for Themselves — and It Wasn’t Byzantine
For more than a thousand years, one of history’s most powerful empires called itself something…
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Solar Storms Could Cripple GPS and Satellites in an Already Fragile Orbit
If every satellite operator in orbit simultaneously stopped dodging debris and dead spacecraft, researchers now…
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T. rex Walked on Its Toes Like a Bird and Scientists Are Rethinking Everything
Everything you think you know about how T. rex moved might be wrong — and…
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Tiny California Earthquakes Just Exposed Faults Nobody Knew Were There
The earthquakes that rattle your windows and set off emergency alerts on your phone are…
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Comet ATLAS Is Breaking Apart and the 48-Hour Delay Has Scientists Rethinking Everything
What are the odds of a space telescope accidentally witnessing a comet tearing itself apart…
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Loneliness Linked to Memory Problems — But Researchers Draw a Clear Line
Feeling lonely can quietly affect how well your brain works — but that doesn’t automatically…
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How Beowulf, Fenrir and Tolkien End Up in the Same Medieval Study
What happens when a scholar spends decades immersed in the worlds of Viking warriors, Arthurian…
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A €2M Gold Auction in France Is Raising Questions Nobody Expected
More than €2 million worth of gold bars and coins sold at a single auction…
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Scientists Mapped 47 Million Galaxies and the Scale Is Hard to Process
Forty-seven million galaxies, mapped in three dimensions, stretching across billions of light-years of space —…
Science
What Actually Happens When a Chicken Loses Its Head Will Surprise You
It’s one of those phrases everyone has heard — “running around like a chicken with…
Science
The Decades-Old Discovery That Just Earned Two Scientists $3 Million
A $3 million prize and a milestone in medical history — that’s what two researchers…
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Pilots Reported Red Sprites for Decades Before the ISS Made Them Real
There are flashes of red light exploding silently above thunderstorms, reaching altitudes of up to…
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A Forest Hid China’s Asteroid Crater for 50,000 Years Until NASA Looked Down
Something 1.85 kilometers wide slammed into what is now northeastern China roughly 46,000 to 53,000…
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5,000-Year-Old Tombs Found on Ordinary Farmland Are Rewriting Prehistory
Nearly 3,000 archaeological traces hidden beneath ordinary farmland in northwestern Bohemia — and none of…
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A Subtle Shift in Weather Rhythm Finally Solves a 40-Year Arctic Mystery
For roughly 40 years, scientists watched warm Atlantic water push deeper and deeper into the…
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A 551-Million-Year-Old Site Is Changing What We Know About Mass Extinction
Around 550 million years ago, something catastrophic happened to life on Earth — and for…
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700-Year-Old Bolivian Mummy Just Rewrote What We Knew About Strep
A 700-year-old mummy discovered in Bolivia has just rewritten what scientists thought they knew about…
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New Opioid Relieves Pain in Rats With Far Lower Addiction Risk Than Morphine
What if the next generation of painkillers could treat severe pain without the crushing addiction…
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The Arctic Mystery That Stumped Oceanographers for 40 Years Has an Answer
For roughly 40 years, oceanographers watched warm, salty Atlantic water push deeper and deeper into…