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The Best Bird Photographer of the Year Awards displays the dynamic lives of the amazing avian
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‘Free Air’ was a classic of the interwar generation
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Archaeologists tested three methods the early hominins could have used to get tar from birch bark
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Analysis of the TRAPPIST-1 stellar system shows that several of its planets have the right conditions for liquid water
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She was the first female telephone operator. Before her, telephone operators were teenaged boys. That didn't go so well
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Residue from pots found in a Sicilian cave show grape wine was produced 3,000 years earlier than thought
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