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Struck by Space: The Only Woman Ever Hit by a Meteorite
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The Millionaire Who Adopted a Neighbourhood and Changed Its Future
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A teenaged girl in Leicester stood before a piece of old technology, one she'd ...
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Believe It or Not: Blue Lights That Cut Tokyo Rail Suicides
A train platform can feel like a cliff edge late at night. In Tokyo, ...
Seven Years of Collecting Cans Led Him to Homeownership—Here’s How
Dawn breaks over a music festival ground, and most people are heading home. But ...
Yorkshire’s Two-Metre Death Trap: The Stream With a 100% Fatality Rate
Picture a stream so modest in width that a person with reasonable athletic ability ...
The Fosse Dionne Spring: Bottomless and Endless Since the Middle Ages
In the quiet town of Tonnerre, France, lies a spring so strange it borders ...
The Drake Passage: Where Earth’s Most Violent Waters Protect the Planet
Thirteen days of rowing. Six people. Thousands of tonnes of water hurling against their ...
When A Bar Drink Turned Dangerous: Liquid Nitrogen Ruptured A Man’s Stomach
A glass sat on a bar beneath a drifting cloud of white vapour. The ...
The Mistake That Made the Tarte Tatin Famous
The legend says the scent of burnt sugar once filled the tiny kitchen of ...
A Taste of Empire: How the Inca Preserved Potatoes for Five Centuries
A clay vessel lay half-buried in the earth of a forgotten storage room. When ...
Europe’s Elusive “Ghost Cat” Returns To Forests After Decades Of Absence
A motion sensor flickers in a quiet forest in the Czech Republic. Hidden among ...
The Truffle-Hunting Dogs Revealing Nature’s Hidden Fungi
In a quiet North Carolina forest, a curly-coated dog moves through the undergrowth with ...
Built To Die: The Expendable Males Of The Honeybee Colony
Five seconds. That is the entirety of his existence that matters. A male honey ...
The Forgotten Swedish Crown: The Secret Colony That Shaped America’s Foundation
There's a moment that catches most visitors off guard. You step out of the ...
Hy-Brasil And The Phantom Land That Haunted Maps For 500 Years
The island rose without warning. On a quiet Atlantic evening, the sea west of ...
The Mountain of Holes That Could Rewrite What We Know About Ancient Trade
If you didn’t know better, you’d assume the hillside had been hit by something ...
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