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  • USCNN

    Remains from a mother-daughter cold case were found nearly 24 years later, after a deathbed confession from the suspect

    A West Virginia father is getting some sense of closure after authorities found the remains of his young daughter and her mother following a deathbed confession from the man believed to have fatally shot them nearly two decades ago.

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  • USUSA TODAY

    'Extraordinary': George Washington's 250-year-old cherries found buried at Mount Vernon

    Archaeologists say that enslaved laborers picked the cherries, wiped them off to avoid condensation and placed them into the jar. They've been there ever since.

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  • ScienceFuturism

    NASA Ponders Why Gas Produced by Life on Earth Is Leaking Out of Mars at Night

    NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has made a puzzling discovery while roaming the barren surface of the planet's Gale Crater: puffs of methane gas that only appear at night and vanish during the day. The rover's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument detected spikes of the gas, sometimes spiking to 40 times the usual levels […]

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  • USAssociated Press

    Diver pinned under water by an alligator figured he had choice: Lose his arm or lose his life

    Out of air and pinned by an alligator to the bottom of the Cooper River in South Carolina, Will Georgitis decided his only chance to survive might be to lose his arm. The alligator had fixed his jaws around Georgitis' arm and after he tried to escape by stabbing it with the screwdriver he uses to pry fossilized shark teeth off the riverbed, the gator shook the diver and dragged him 50 feet (15 meters) down, Georgitis told The Post and Courier. The alligator attacked Georgitis on April 15 as he

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  • SportsNBC News

    Hundreds of athletes urge the NCAA not to ban trans athletes from women’s sports

    A group of more than 400 current and former Olympic, professional and collegiate athletes, over 300 academics and roughly 100 advocacy groups released separate letters Tuesday urging the NCAA not to ban transgender women from competing in women’s college sports.

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  • ScienceMiami Herald

    Roman shipwreck laid in shallow water for 1,700 years. Now ‘unique’ cargo is revealed

    Residue from jars aboard the wreck reveal the presence of a certain sauce, researchers said.

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  • ScienceFuturism

    Former NASA Engineer Says He's Invented a Thruster That Doesn't Require Propellant

    Space startup Exodus Propulsion Technologies claims to have achieved a breakthrough, stumbling upon an entirely new force of nature that could help us develop propellantless rockets. As The Debrief reports, co-founder Charles Buhler, a NASA veteran, who has worked on a number of major programs, including the International Space Station, the Hubble Space Telescope, and […]

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