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Can't Get Started on a Daunting Task? This Brain Circuit That Slams the Brakes on Motivation Might Be to Blame

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Months Before Rosa Parks Made Headlines, Claudette Colvin Refused to Give Up Her Seat for a White Woman on a Segregated Bus

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See a 157-Year-Old Great Lakes Shipwreck in Stunning Detail With This New 3D Scan

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This Mysterious Gas Cloud Spotted Around a Dead Star Is Beautiful—but Astronomers Say It Shouldn’t Be There

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Astronomers Find an Odd Space Cloud, Like a Galaxy Without Stars, That Could Shed Light on the Secrets of Dark Matter

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Archaeologists Stumble Upon Mysterious Medieval Village While Preparing for New Wind Farms in England

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Naked Mole-Rats Prefer Low-Oxygen Air That Would Kill Most Mammals, Adding to Their List of Death-Defying Superpowers

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See the Blades That Carried Boitano to Gold in the ‘Battle of the Brians’ in the 1988 Olympics

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Samuel Green Freed Himself and Others From Slavery. Then He Was Imprisoned Over Owning a Book

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Readers Respond to the December 2025 Issue

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