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For generations visitors near Marfa, Texas, have watched lights drift and split on the desert horizon. A 2004 student study traced them to car headlights, yet some researchers say not every light fits. The post The Marfa Lights: Are the…
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Back in the 1920s, when people heated their homes with coal, Pennsylvania's Glen Alden Coal Company began marketing its coal as "Blue Coal." Not because the coal had a bluish sheen, but because the company actually painted it blue. It…
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Apparently, a one-shot contest. Judging by her brief getup, Darlene Larson, 24, 1967 Outdoor Health Queen, doesn't seem suited to her role as she sits atop a mound of snow on the roof of the Lincoln Square Motor Inn, 66th St. and…
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Newspapers said Orson Welles's 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast set off a nationwide panic. Ratings, hospital checks and the coverage itself suggest the fear was far smaller than the legend. The post The War of the Worlds Panic: Did a…
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Astronomers have discovered a particularly tantalizing extrasolar world thought to be made up almost entirely of water. Move over Kevin Costner - this...
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After nine days in space, the Artemis II crewmembers faced their final and riskiest challenge: splashdown. In this excerpt from the book "Earthrise: Inside Artemis II, the Groundbreaking Human Mission into Deep Space," astronaut Jeremy…
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In this excerpt from "The Secrets of our DNA," geneticist Turi King examines how DNA was used to reveal the ultimate fate of the last members of the House of Romanov.
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A remarkable combination of rare and unique artifacts likely from a Viking double burial has been discovered on the Isle of Man. More than 1,100 years old, the objects attest to the lives and deaths of some of Man’s earliest Viking…
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