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Charles Darwin's address book: A new window into his private world
The Darwin Online project at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has published for the first time: Charles Darwin's personal... Read more -
Info to decipher secret message in Kryptos sculpture at CIA headquarters sells for close to $1M
The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia... Read more -
Auction of famed CIA cipher shaken after archive reveals code
It is one of the world's most famous unsolved codes whose answer could sell for a fortune—but two US friends... Read more
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Saturday Citations: Humans have sensitive hands; solar system travels 3 times faster than predicted
It's the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Black hole flare unprecedented; the strength of memories; bugs on the menu
This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that... Read more -
Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease
For the past decade, Dr. Priscilla Chan and her husband Mark Zuckerberg have focused part of their philanthropy on a... Read more -
Ancient Greeks and Romans knew harming the environment could change the climate
Humans have known about, thought about and worried about climate change for millennia.... Read more -
Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here's why
Interactions between different users on roads are often a source of frustration, the most prominent being those between motorists and... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Test flight of the X-59; a confounding quantum calculation; the universe is not simulated
This week, researchers published LIGO findings that hint at the existence of second-generation black holes. Astronomers captured a spectacular new... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Primate skull diversity; exploring matter-antimatter asymmetry; asthma clarified
Howdy, pards! This autumnal week brought a new challenge to last decade's claim of a strong Yellowstone trophic cascade after... Read more -
Perception of fraud as a victimless offense can weaken police investigations, study shows
The perception among some police officers that fraud is a victimless offense can weaken investigations and the support given to... Read more -
Preserving the Amazon: A digital lifeline for the Biblioteca Amazónica
Three years ago, a fire broke out at the Biblioteca Amazónica in Iquitos, Peru, imperiling one of the world's most... Read more -
Adoption of open research practices exceeding expectations
A new analysis of open research practices suggests that researchers are increasingly motivated to share their data by factors beyond... Read more -
Louvre heist: The turbulent history of the stolen royal jewels
It sounds like the plot of a heist movie. On October 19, priceless items of jewelry and royal regalia were... Read more -
Saturday Citations: Yet another solution for universal expansion; computing with brain organoids
This week, researchers reported the discovery of four Late Bronze Age stone megastructures likely used for trapping herds of wild... Read more
