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Feel a Connection to a Celebrity You’ve Never Met? Your Bond May Be 'Parasocial,' Which Is Cambridge Dictionary's Word of the Year for 2025

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Thousands of Mysterious Holes Dot the Landscape in Peru. Archaeologists Say They May Finally Know Why

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Scientists Reverse Human Rejection of Pig Organ Transplant for First Time Ever

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At the Mysterious Boundary Between Waking Life and Sleep, What Happens in the Brain?

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Miami Beach's Newest Art Installation Is Underwater—and It Doubles as a Habitat for Fish and Coral

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Scientists Extract the Oldest RNA Ever Found, Revealing How a Woolly Mammoth’s Genes May Have Functioned 40,000 Years Ago

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Just as the Italian Art of Glassblowing Was on the Verge of Shattering, a Talented Craftsman in Murano Emerged to Revive It

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Paleontologists Unearthed Australia's Oldest Known Crocodile Eggshells. The Reptiles' Relatives May Have Hunted From the Trees

Artist Sneaks Framed A.I. Portrait and Accompanying Label Onto a Museum's Gallery Wall

Archaeologists May Have Found the Lost Iron City of the Silk Road in the Remote Highlands of Uzbekistan

The History of America Flows Through the Hudson River, and the Country’s Aquatic Superhighway Is on the Rebound

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Six Ancient Roman Statues Have Been Stolen From Syria's National Museum

Watch Suckerfish Hitch a Wild Ride on Humpback Whales in Rare Video Footage

The Florentine Diamond Was Thought to Be Lost to History. It's Actually Been Safely Tucked Away in a Canadian Bank Vault All Along

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A Fire Ravaged a Historic 200-Year-Old Tavern in Ohio. These Are the Artifacts Archaeologists Found in the Wreckage

How Landlocked Idaho Became a Leader in Urban Surfing

Researchers Have Identified the Names of Five Million Victims Murdered in the Holocaust

This Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered a 151-Million-Year-Old Insect—and It's a New Species

Archaeologists Say They've Found a 3,000-Year-Old Map of the Cosmos at an Ancient Maya Site in Mexico

Dark Moon, Shooting Stars: How to Catch the Stunning Leonid Meteor Shower This Weekend

See Masterpieces by Monet, Matisse, Degas and Picasso in the First-Ever Exhibition of This German Family's Private Art Collection

Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?

Ken Burns Says His New Documentary Forced Him to Revisit Everything He Thought He Knew About the American Revolution

Downy Woodpeckers 'Grunt' as They Turn Their Bodies Into Hammers to Drill Into Trees

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A Sweeping Yoko Ono Retrospective Aims to Make Music in Museumgoers' Minds

The Sun Erupted With the Year's Largest Solar Flare This Week, and Space Weather-Fueled Aurora Activity Could Continue

Elderly Jews Were Among the Most Likely to Die in the Holocaust. Why Has History Forgotten About the Genocide's Oldest Victims?

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design

Ancient Rome's Roads Might Have Been Almost Twice as Long as Researchers Previously Thought

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Colorful Snapdragons in the Valleys of the Pyrenees Offer a Rare Window Into How Evolution Happens

A 5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Wine Press Has Been Discovered in Israel

The Universe's Expansion May Be Slowing Down, Not Speeding Up, New Research Suggests

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