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More Women Die of Cervical Cancer Than Previously Thought
Past studies significantly underestimated cervical cancer deaths—and racial disparities
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Researchers Finish Separating World’s Largest Celtic Coin Hoard
It took nearly three years to separate the more than 68,000 coins
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This Map Shows Over a Century of Documented Lynchings in the United States
Mapping the history of racial terror
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Police Recover More Than 3,500 Stolen Artifacts in Europe
Operation Pandora involved 18 nations and pan-European police agencies to recover paintings, coins and artifiacts
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The Weird, Brief History of the Eskimo Pie Corporation
It was America’s first chocolate-covered ice cream bar, patented on this day in 1922
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A London Music Hall Hid a Long-Forgotten Storeroom Packed With Condiments
Construction workers uncovered the tasty trove while excavating its foundations
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Why Food Experts Are Warning Not to Burn Your Toast
Is it time to bid brown toast farewell?
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Did Neanderthals Like Pretty Rocks?
An unusual rock in a cave inhabited by Neanderthals in Croatia suggests the hominids may have picked up interesting stones
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Scientists Capture a “Sonic Boom” of Light
A new, ultra-fast camera recorded the phenomenon for the first time
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American Librarians Just Chose 2017’s Best Books for Children and Young Adults
Meet the 2017 Newbery, Caldecott and Printz award winners
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The First Non-Browning GMO Apples Slated to Hit Shelves Next Month
The new Arctic apples take weeks (rather than minutes) to turn brown
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Ötzi the Iceman’s Last Meal Included Goat Bacon
Analysis of the 5,300-year-old mummy’s stomach contents shows he ate dry-cured meat from a mountain ibex
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This Necklace Contains All of the World’s Languages
Because cultural preservation never goes out of fashion
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Remembering Paul Robeson, Actor, Sportsman and Leader
Among other things, Robeson transformed one of history’s most famous showtunes into a protest song
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The Only Time in History When Men on Horseback Captured a Fleet of Ships
A Dutch fleet stuck in the ice. A group of French soldiers sent to capture it. What could go wrong?
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Second “Three-Parent” Baby Born. This Time, It’s a Girl
The baby was produced through a controversial technique that requires implanting a fertilized nucleus into a donor egg
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New Grants Give Out Millions to Preserve African-American History
A $7.5 million grant program will fund 39 projects in over 20 states
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2016 Was the Hottest Year Ever Recorded
Never in modern memory has the Earth’s surface and sea temperature been so high
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Who Was the Poe Toaster? We Still Have No Idea
In Baltimore, they’re keeping the tradition of visiting Edgar Allan Poe’s grave for his birthday—but without the mystery
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Dark Matter Could Be Destroying Distant Galaxies
The mysterious substance may suck gas from the galaxies—and a gasless galaxy is a dead galaxy
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