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1 year ago+4 4 0Leaked Chinese police data is giving Uyghurs answers about missing family members
A giant cache of files has been made accessible to the public with a new online search tool that enables people to discover what details the Chinese state has about their loved ones in Xinjiang.
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1 year ago+4 4 0What’s in Store-Bought Chicken Stock, and Why Are Brands so Secretive About It?
A long, winding journey to find out why companies treat their chicken broth recipes like state secrets.
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5 years ago+4 4 0Candy Land Was Invented for Polio Wards
A schoolteacher created the popular board game, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, for quarantined children.
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5 years ago+16 16 0The Disturbing Sound of a Human Voice
Hearing people talk can terrify even top predators such as mountain lions, with consequences that ripple through entire ecosystems.
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5 years ago+16 16 0The US land forever leased to England
Every May, the US Coast Guard and the Royal Navy hold a ceremony on a sliver of North Carolina land where four English World War Two soldiers are buried.
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5 years ago+8 8 0Bra clasps save turtles lives
A North Carolina wildlife rescue came up with an ingenious way to mend cracked turtle shells.
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5 years ago+21 21 0Archaeologists unearth more evidence that when a civilization drinks together, it stays together
The Wari empire, an ancient Peruvian civilization that predated the Inca, made advances in agriculture, art, architecture, and warfare. They also drank a ton of beer.
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5 years ago+24 24 0Lost ancient palace appears in reservoir
A 3,400-year-old palace has emerged from a reservoir in the Kurdistan region of Iraq after water levels dropped because of drought. The discovery should yield more light on the mysterious Mittani Empire.
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5 years ago+4 4 0The Pearly Wonders of Renaissance Bling
Pearls have always been in a league of their own. As souvenirs from the depths of New World waters in the 15th century, they were simply something diamonds, emeralds, and rubies could never be: alive.
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5 years ago+3 3 0Is this the birthplace of written Spanish?
More than 1,000 years ago in Spain’s La Rioja region, monks made notes in the margins of Latin texts. These are believed to be the Spanish language’s first steps onto the page.
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6 years ago+16 16 0Why is wombat poop cube-shaped?
Wombats are the only animals in the world that produce cube-shaped scat. But how and why do they do it? Scientists now have a better idea.
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6 years ago+11 11 0The last velvet merchant of Venice
Velvet was once among the most coveted fabrics in the world, but now only one family in Italy produces it the traditional way – and can trace its textile tradition back to 1499.
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6 years ago+1 1 0A war hero returns to Germany to solve a mystery -- and meet an enemy
He was a legendary tank commander in WWII who returned to the scene of a battle 68 years later to meet a former enemy and answer one question about a woman he encountered in a battle: Did she live?
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6 years ago+31 31 0 x 1Dirty Jokes in Latrine Mosaics Entertained Ancient Romans
Men using the public toilets in Antiochia ad Cragum would have gotten the dirty jokes in the floor mosaics.
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6 years ago+15 15 0One Russian Teacher's Online Crusade To Get Proper Russian Back On TV
A language teacher ruffles feathers among leading TV personalities with a popular YouTube channel relentlessly nitpicking at grammatical blunders.
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6 years ago+13 13 0Trove of newly released NASA audio puts you backstage during Apollo 1
A team of engineers spent years giving new life to old NASA tapes with behind-the-scenes audio from the Apollo era.
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6 years ago+27 27 0 x 1The year's best astronomy photos
Some of the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual competition.
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6 years ago+21 21 0The art museum entirely dedicated to cats
Fluffy felines may have ruled the internet for years, but they have influenced the art world for centuries. Amsterdam’s KattenKabinet exclusively showcases the art inspired by cats.
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6 years ago+13 13 0Half-life
Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility.
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6 years ago+15 15 0The bookshops of Scotland
Photographer Celeste Noche's pictures of bookshops and libraries in Scotland.