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Confirmed by the Smithsonian—torn pages reveal a slave’s heroic escape and new life as a free sailor
The pages —forty-one sheets written in at least four hands— surfaced on a screened-in porch in Barrington, Rhode Island, ...
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Confirmed by scientists—humans are the main cause behind the increase in ticks and diseases such as Lyme disease
America is in the thick of a tick boom. Health departments logged 89,240 confirmed or probable Lyme disease cases in 2023, ...
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Confirmed – Texas imposes new rules on autonomous vehicles and will require official permits before they can be driven on its roads
A blue-and-white Waymo van rolls up to a stoplight near Austin’s South Congress Avenue, sensors spinning in the sun. In three ...
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Goodbye to NASA – the White House proposes halting exploration of the solar system due to budget cuts
A hard-driving space probe is still cruising beyond Pluto, its instruments healthy and its fuel tanks half full. Yet a single ...
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Goodbye to starless nights—the inner core of the Milky Way can now be seen with the naked eye from America thanks to exceptional conditions
A ghostly white river is coursing over the continent this month. It isn’t fog, and it isn’t cloud. It’s the packed heart of ...
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Confirmed by James Webb – the deepest observations of the cosmos support what many consider to be the Theory of Everything in modern physics
The James Webb Space Telescope is only three years into operations, yet it keeps slipping the cosmic rug out from under ...
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Goodbye to job security at Amazon—its CEO warns that artificial intelligence will put thousands of jobs at risk in the coming years
Jeff Bezos once said Amazon was Day 1 forever. It will always strive for innovation, unlike Day 2, with is stasis and smells ...
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An American woman finds thousands of dollars buried in her garden, and the bank almost refuses to exchange them because they are too old
When farmers in Colombia stumbled upon Pablo Escobar’s cash dumps buried in their fields, they sometimes hit payday without ever planting a crop. Thirty years ...
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Neither hamburgers nor sushi—this ranking reveals which dishes dominate world cuisine and which country receives double recognition
TasteAtlas runs like an edible IMDb: users rate dishes they have actually tasted, each account vetted through bot screens and ...
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An international team of NASA scientists detect mysterious radio waves from Antarctica and cannot understand their origin
High above the windswept Ross Ice Shelf, a helium balloon the size of a football stadium drifts in the polar twilight. Slung ...
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Confirmed by NASA – EMIT instrument reveals alarming presence of toxic substances in the Pacific, near California beaches
For decades the border city of Imperial Beach has juggled closure signs and protest banners as millions of gallons of sewage ...
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Costco changes forever—the chain will launch independent gas stations outside its stores and change its business model in the United States
Pull off Interstate 5 in Mission Viejo next spring and you’ll find a Costco that sells only one thing: gasoline.