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Chris Higgins|
Chris Higgins|
Though he was only 31 when he died, the Italian-born first sex symbol of the silver screen acted in and produced over 40 films.
Meg Boeni|
Adrienne Crezo|
Neurobiologist Leslie B. Vosshall has a different solution for stopping the insects and the spread of disease. “I believe the key to controlling mosquito behavior is to understand better how they sense us,” she says.
Liana Aghajanian|
If you ever noticed an odd smell when around your grandparents, you're not alone. Like other body odors, this “old person smell” is produced when chemicals from the skin glands get broken down into small odorous molecules that waft away into the air.
Matt Soniak|
For the last couple years, Jill Harness has been rounding up the world's most beautiful libraries by continent. Here they are all in one place, in no particular order.
Jill Harness|
While the masses coo at Kate’s dresses and wink at Harry’s antics, there’s a world of colorful royalty that never makes the tabloids. From a crafty prince who scalps movie tickets for pocket money to a TV-obsessed royal who believes Star Trek can jump-sta
the mag|
Of the more than 900 exoplanets discovered to date—planets outside our solar system—none, not a single one, appears to be a nice place to visit or live.
Erik Sofge|
Light Warlpiri only has 350 native speakers, and none of them are older than 35 years old.
Erik van Rheenen|
They range from the grossly wrong to the freakishly prophetic.
Lucas Reilly|
the mag|
Erik Sass|
Although most of the early "X-Patents" are lost, we have a barebones record of what used to be there, giving us a peek into what America’s earliest inventors were up to.
Lucas Reilly|
Some plants have been slowly plotting their revenge.
Ben Eisenkop|
What's a Muslim in Longyearbyen, Norway or Barrow, Alaska supposed to do when there's no sunrise or sunset to guide their fasting? Starve? Fly south for Ramadan?
Matt Soniak|
We can’t tell you happened in Kate Middleton's delivery room. But we can tell you what it was like for other historical royal women.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie|
After 83 years, the escape artist's collection of clippings about Spiritualism pulled a reappearing trick.
Erik van Rheenen|
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is about as American as it gets. Funny, then, that the book was released in England well before it hit shelves in the U.S. Funny, except to author Mark Twain, whose greatest work was almost derailed by a strange
Matt Soniak|
A science experiment 69 years in the making has finally come to a conclusion at Dublin’s Trinity College.
Maureen Monahan|
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