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Another Step Closer to Male Birth Control Pills
A protein might lead to an oral contraceptive for men
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Iraqi Museum Discovers Missing Lines From the Epic of Gilgamesh
One of the world’s first great stories just got a new chapter
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The Increasingly Muddled Origins of Homo Naledi
Detailed analyses of Homo naledi shows a mosaic of both early and modern human features
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ISIS Demolished Yet Another Priceless Syrian Monument
The 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph was destroyed on Sunday
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In Vietnam, the C.I.A. Paid Spies With Stuff From Sears
Nothing says “clandestine espionage” like a mail-order catalog
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Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake
This may be the most delicious optical illusion
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What Cyclists Can Learn From Schools of Fish
A weaker athlete might be able to keep up if they stay to the back of a group
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Butt Dials Blamed for a Spike in 911 Calls
Reports put accidental pocket dials at 30 to 50 percent of mobile emergency calls
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How Decorative Gourd Season Conquered Fall
Strange-looking squash have become big business for farmers
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It Wasn’t Just an Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs, Epic Volcanoes Helped
A new study ignites a decades-old debate about what killed the dinosaurs
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How Nature Inspired the Medicine Nobel Prize Winners to Fight Parasites
Their discoveries saved the lives of millions of people around the world
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A Lunch Menu From the Titanic Just Sold for $88,000
The “unsinkable” ship served corned beef, mutton chops and custard pudding
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Michigan Farmer Stumbles on a Mammoth Skeleton
Paleontologists excavated the skeleton, prying the bones from the dark muck of the field
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How a Captain Morgan Advertisement Inspired an Emergency Room Technique
Captain Morgan, hip fixer
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Notoriously Durable Styrofoam Could Be Munched by Mealworms
Microbes in the beetle larvae’s guts help break down polystyrene
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Here’s What Whale Songs Look Like as Sheet Music
Musical notation created by a musician and a designer make whale song look almost like an alien language
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Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours
New tools cut sequencing time almost in half
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Why Scientists Are Gathering Seeds From Roadside Sunflowers
Climate changes threatens commercial sunflower production, where plants are grown for their oil
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