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These Mysterious Blobs May Be Conscious—And They Exist All Around You
They cooperate, make decisions, and even display a “primitive form of altruism,” scientists say.
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Something in the Deep Made a Sound That Echoed Through the Pacific. It Took 8 Years to Find the Source.
In 1997, NOAA researchers recorded a mysterious ultra-low-frequency noise so powerful it registered on sensors thousands of miles apart.
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Sex Can Induce Psychedelic-Like Hallucinations—And You Can Train Yourself to Experience Them
People report anything from seeing colors to having near-death experiences.
A Student Discovered His Father’s Lost Notebooks—and Unlocked a 55-Million-Year-Old Fossil Mystery
A mummified fossil fish was forgotten in a university basement until a son's chance discovery brought it back to science.
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Death Valley Is Littered with Boulders. They’re Mysteriously Moving on Their Own.
The eerie “sailing stones” in Death Valley National Park simply refuse to stay in one place.
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Archaeologists Found a 1,700-Year-Old Gold Ring That Still Shines like New.
A routine nature reserve project in the Netherlands turned up over 3,000 artifacts spanning thousands of years.
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An 1871 Brush Fire Turned Into the Deadliest Blaze in U.S. History. It Barely Made the News.
Although it killed more people, the Peshtigo Fire in Wisconsin was overshadowed by the Chicago Fire, which happened on the same day in 1871.
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