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9 hours ago+2 2 0Scent of the afterlife? Scientists re-create recipe for Egyptian mummification balm
Beeswax, plant oils, animal fats, bitumen, coniferous resins, coumarin, and benzoic acid.
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2 days ago+8 8 05 family photo ideas for a Father’s Day gift idea
All those family photos in your phone can help you make a great Father’s Day gift. Not sure what to do? We asked two experts for gift ideas that Dad will love. Here’s what they suggest.
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3 days ago+21 21 0Christie's Auction House Hacked, Sensitive Data from 500,000 Customers Stolen
A hacker group claims to have stolen sensitive data from at least 500,000 Christie's customers. Now they are threatening to publish it.
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4 days ago+30 30 0Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home?
For 100 years, Egypt’s scientists have watched as their nation’s story was largely told by institutions from Europe and the United States. Can a stunning new museum change that narrative?
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5 days ago+24 24 0Pigeons in the Arctic: Part III: Sir John Ross’s 1850-51 Search for the Lost Franklin Bay Expedition
“Royal Navy personnel brought homing pigeons with them as they searched for the Lost Franklin Bay Expedition in the 1850s. Given that homing pigeons were very much a novelty amongst the British public at the time, this represents an early usage of pi ...
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6 days ago+23 23 0What a Wine Opener Tells Us About a Wine Drinker
Meet the Durand, the most influential wine opener of the moment.
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7 days ago+23 23 0Special Report: Studio Musicians Are Still Waiting For Credit In The Streaming Era
In a world where public-facing databases can track 20 million UPS packages a day, baseball career statistics from 100 years ago to last night, and millions of global Bitcoin transactions, musician credits remain incomplete and hard to access.
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9 days ago+30 30 0I ate the Subway Footlong Cookie so you don’t have to
Subway has a new Footlong Cookie. I bought one and now it looks like a Candyland murder scene.
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9 days ago+43 43 0GitHub Issues Patch for Critical Exploit in Enterprise Server
The vulnerability affects all GHES versions prior to 3.13.0 and achieves the highest possible CVSS score of 10. Instances with SAML SSO authentication are at risk.
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10 days ago+37 37 0The Most Mispronounced Brand from Every Country
Kodak. Ikea. Sony. Sometimes, a brand name just sounds like what it represents — even if the name doesn’t actually mean anything at all.
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2 weeks ago+24 24 0Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton
Poet crossed out one racy passage, deeming it "an unbecom[ing] tale for a hist[ory]"
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2 weeks ago+31 31 0French post office releases scratch-and-sniff baguette stamp
‘Bakery scent’ added via microcapsules to postage stamp celebrating ‘jewel of French culture’
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2 weeks ago+31 31 0Meet Max, the cat receiving an (honorary) doctorate from Vermont State University this weekend
The tabby will become a "Doctor of Litter-ature" in recognition of his contributions to the Castleton campus, where he has become a regular visitor for the past four years.
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2 weeks ago+37 37 0VFCFinder Highlights Security Patches in Open Source Software
VFCFinder analyzes commit histories to pinpoint the most likely commits associated with vulnerability fixes.
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2 weeks ago+16 16 0Study: Conservation actions are effective at halting and reversing biodiversity loss
A major international study has shown that conservation efforts to reduce biodiversity loss are working, with two out of every three measures making a positive impact.
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2 weeks ago+14 14 0The Case Against Charles Darwin
How the investigation into a grisly murder shocked 19th-century France and framed the scientist as an accomplice.
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2 weeks ago+12 12 0WV agency won’t release docs showing where money was spent putting foster kids in hotels
West Virginia agency denies newsroom's public records request: The West Virginia Department of Human Services failed to give more than five months of financial documents related to temporary housing for foster children.
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How-to
2 weeks ago+28 28 05 family photo ideas for a Mother’s Day project
All those family photos in your phone can help you make a great keepsake for Mother’s Day. Not sure what to do? We asked two experts for gift ideas that Mom will love. Here’s what they suggest.
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2 weeks ago+20 20 0Novel LLMjacking Attacks Target Cloud-Based AI Models
It was probably inevitable. Threat researchers detected bad actors using stolen credentials to target LLMs, with the eventual goal of selling the access to other hackers.
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2 weeks ago+24 24 0The Hidden, Magnificent History of Chop Suey
Discrimination and mistranslation have long obscured the dish's true origins.