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How a Gang of Harmonica Geeks Saved the Soul of the Blues Harp

The White House Launches the National Microbiome Initiative

It's the Billionaires vs. the Millionaires in This Hawaiian Resort War

Chinese Cops Are Temporarily Patrolling the Streets of Rome and Milan

Toxic talk: Trying to lip read in China

They Had Feathers: Is the World Ready to See Dinosaurs as They Really Were?

Manipulation of specific neurons helps to erase bad memories, enhance good ones

How Rival Gardens of Eden in Iraq Survived ISIS, Dwindling Tourists, And Each Other

Shanghai's Holdout Neighborhood of Guangfuli (Photojournalism)

Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?

Study finds link between handedness, mathematical skills

Searching for Signs of Hannibal’s Route in DNA from Horse Manure

'Plastic Antibodies' in Deodorant Attack Your Smelly Molecules

U.S. plans new wave of immigrant deportation raids

When you take acetaminophen, you don't feel others' pain as much

Trickle-Down Economics Has Ruined the Kansas Economy

The cave divers who went back for their friends

How Can America Fix Its Crime Labs?

NSA and CIA Double Their Warrantless Searches on Americans in Two Years

The Israeli general who compared the Jewish State to Nazi-era Germany

Untold thousands of patients misdiagnosed as vegetative are actually aware.

CDC secretly sanctioned multiple times for mishandling bioterror pathogens

The Disturbing Secret Behind the World’s Most Expensive Coffee

'I have to be taller': the unregulated world of India's limb-lengthening industry

Ghana's coastal erosion: The village buried in sand

Florida Reefs Begin to Dissolve Much Sooner Than Expected

Hepatitis C 'epidemic' largely untreated in Tennessee prisons

A Brutal Genocide in Colonial Africa Finally Gets its Deserved Recognition

The Hellish Commute of the Women Who Make Your Clothes

U.S. establishes Libyan outposts with eye toward offensive against Islamic State

ISIS Math Education Starts With Banning the Plus Sign

Raining all day. Ugh.

"This was an act of unity amongst sisters and a symbol of achievement." More

Why Aren’t More Young Women Choosing Set-It-and-Forget-It IUDs?

Physicists measure van der Waals forces of individual atoms for the first time

In the Early 20th Century, America Was Awash in Incredible Queer Nightlife

Abortion rates hit historic low in developed world but not elsewhere, report says

Germany is trying to teach refugees the right way to have sex

How Tuberculosis Shaped Victorian Fashion

How Kodak Discovered the Atomic Bomb

These People Love to Collect Radioactive Glass. Are They Nuts?

The Rogue Team Rescuing Fort McMurray's Pets As the City Burned

Why Benedict Arnold Turned Traitor Against the American Revolution

Americans Don’t Miss Manufacturing — They Miss Unions

Bath WW2 bomb scare: Hundreds of homes evacuated

Life inside a Lithuanian women's prison.

This Is What It’s Like to Live Without a Country (Photojournalism)

The Ukrainian Hacker Who Became the FBI’s Best Weapon—And Worst Nightmare

The coming refugee crisis: when home leaves us

The most polluted city in the world isn’t Beijing or Delhi

NSA Silent on Spies’ Child Porn Problem

Venezuela Is Falling Apart

African Migrants in Libya Face Kidnapping, Torture, and Robbery on Smuggling Route to Europe

Striking Prisoners in Alabama Accuse Officials of Using Food as Weapon

12,000 people trapped in Syria refugee camp by bombs, shells and bullets

The Iraqi Town Where Kurds and Turkmens Shoot Each Other, Not Islamic State

The vicious cycle that makes people afraid to talk about climate change