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Beneath a public square in Athens lies an engineering marvel that has been dormant for centuries. A part of it passes under a ...

Tucked away in storage at a Berlin museum, a modest wooden shrine had gone largely unstudied for decades. It looked ordinary ...

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From Roman artifacts to Picasso's gowns, this museum lets you hold the past. Most museums show just 3% of what they own. All ...

Across the board, “blue places” dominated the nostalgic landscape. About a third of all memories involved bodies of water. In ...

This description of the teething process comes from a 3,000-year-old medical handbook from ancient Assyria and Babylonia. The ...

Growing a baby in space sounds like science fiction. Here’s why it might stay that way.

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You may be surprised to learn that the human brain, often studied under the lens of its electrical and chemical activity, also releases light. It’s a very faint, invisible light that has sparked a ...