In the Land of the Eyeless Dragons

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700-Year-Old Medieval Document Is the Oldest Written Evidence to Claim the Shroud of Turin Is Fake

Heart Attacks in Space

When Your Father Is a Magician, What Do You Believe?

Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

The Sudden Surges That Forge Evolutionary Trees

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Haunting Photos of Rosemary Kennedy Before and After the Lobotomy That Stole Her Future

Scientists achieve “striking” memory improvements by suppressing brain protein

The Japanese City Known for Making Knives That Are a Cut Above

This Crocodile Relative Was One of Dinosaurs’ Most Fearsome Predators

Bland, easy to follow, for fans of everything: what has the Netflix algorithm done to our films?

Albert Einstein Invented An Appliance That Took Over Kitchens Everywhere. So Where Is It Today?

‘Fishermen Pulled In an Orange Shark Off Costa Rica: ‘My God, What Is This?’’

A Single Mutation Made Horses Rideable and Changed Human History

The world’s largest sand battery just went live in Finland

Extreme Heat Will Change You

30-Year-Old Climate Predictions Were Shockingly Accurate, Study Finds

Cloisters and Ciphers: What Medieval Monks and the CIA Have in Common

‘A perfect symbiosis’: planting vines and other ways hot cities are creating cool spaces

Ancient Roman “De Re Coquinaria” Is the Oldest Surviving Cookbook in the World

Rumors spread like viruses. The French Revolution proved it.

Glow-in-the-dark houseplants shine in rainbow of colours

Tricks of the Trunk

Harassment at Antarctic research bases could spell problems for moon, Mars outposts

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Watch as Experts Preserve a 249-Year-Old Gunboat That Sank During the American Revolution

Understanding the Denisovans means understanding ourselves

Spiders seen keeping fireflies as glowing prisoners that draw more prey to their webs

Webb investigates complex heart of a cosmic butterfly

Video: Megaliths of Carnac get Unesco World Heritage status [6:30]

Black spaces of the Great Depression: scenes of African American life in the 1930s

What We Find in the Sewers

GMU Scientists Are Using “Body Farms” to Study Human Decay

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2025

Smiling miniature figurine thought to be first Viking “portrait” unveiled in Denmark

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These Stars Don’t Burn – They Annihilate Dark Matter

Philosophers must reckon with the meaning of thermodynamics

Reading for Pleasure Has Declined by a ‘Deeply Concerning’ 40 Percent Over the Past Two Decades

The Wonderful World of the Water Ski

Rare genetic mutation makes some people resistant to viral infections

The Lessons of a Glacier’s Collapse

Astrophysicists Find No ‘Hair’ on Black Holes

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

Link found between primate thumb and brain size

Video: Canada’s Greatest Victory? – Caught on Film (WW1 Documentary) [17:00]

How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word

This daily routine sends billions of hazardous nanoparticles into the lungs

Wow! Astronomers are witnessing a Jupiter-like planet forming round a Sun-like star in a system far, far away

Artwork looted by Nazis 80 years ago spotted in estate agent ad

Deep sea worm fights ‘poison with poison’ to survive high arsenic and sulfide levels

‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals

Japanese police apologise at grave of wrongfully accused man

People Matching Artworks: A Voyeur Finds Things That Fit At The Museum

Why the racist study of skulls gripped Victorian Britain

A day with the Revenge Porn Helpline: ‘You can sense the callers’ desperation’