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In a surprise conclusion to a project dubbed The Final Experiment, several well-known believers in a non-spherical Earth have ...

They say one's trash is another's treasure, but a chunk of 'rock' used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by ...

Ancient sheep buried in an elite grave in Egypt show the oldest evidence of humans deliberately deforming the horns of ...

The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of the ginseng family, as scientists ...

It's time to recalibrate the navigation systems on ships, airplanes, and (given the time of year) Santa's sleigh: the ...

The United States has redefined what qualifies as "healthy" food for the first time in 30 years, striking items like white ...

Earlier this year, scientists stumbled upon a potential new treatment for hereditary-patterned baldness, the most common ...

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A previously unknown disease that has claimed the lives of dozens in the Democratic Republic of Congo is likely to be malaria ...