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During the early 20th century, the Montreal melon was a culinary delicacy and an agricultural moneymaker. But as industrial farming took hold, the hard-to-grow fruit went the way of the dodo bird. What one farmer’s attempt to revive it says about taste and technology.

Massive marine reserve created in Atlantic

The Year In Eggs: Everyone's Going Cage-Free, Except Supermarkets

7 Bizarre Easter Eggs Hidden in Great Works of Art

Scientists have used groundbreaking technology to figure out how the Earth looked a billion years ago

Pretending to Understand What Babies Say Can Make Them Smarter

These singing sisters are wildly popular in Yemen. And they’re Israeli Jews.

New year brings minimum wage hikes for Americans in 14 states

The Ottoman caliphate: Straddling two worlds

The Horrifying Demise of the Food Confiscated From You at Customs

The Rise Of The Mega-Mosque In Turkey

Refugees find dizzying freedoms and unexpected dangers in Brazil

Atmospheres Can Collapse on the Dark Sides of Planets

NYC Lets Luxury Building Owners Stiff Workers and Still Get a Tax Break

6 Supervillains From History That Make The Joker Look Subtle

Another Hong Kong worker at anti-Beijing bookshop 'disappears'

Last Year, States Took the War on Uteruses to the Next Level

Double standards cited amid armed protest in Oregon Context

Erdoğan’s and the PKK’s war is paving the way for the country’s disintegration

After retaking most of Ramadi from ISIS, Iraq sets sights on Mosul

Melting glaciers blamed for subtle slowing of Earth's rotation