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Simply put, nerve agents stop the central nervous system from communicating with the muscles, organs and glands it needs to keep your body's internal machinery running smoothly.

Roses are red and violets are blue, but we only know that thanks to specialized cells in our eyes called cones.

Teeth and bones are both hard, white and heavy with calcium, but that doesn't make them one and the same. From the way they look to how they heal, teeth are quite different from the body's bones.

In 1776, whether you were declaring America independent from the crown or swearing your loyalty to King George III, your pronunciation would have been much the same. At that time, American and Brit...

You are what you eat — but if you want to get literal about it, you are mostly what you drink. So, how much of that should be water?

Apologies to people keen on reviving extinct dinosaurs, but researchers have never recovered dinosaur DNA, which is necessary for cloning. But, intriguingly, they have found fragments of mystery DN...

Scientists find that the famous Mona Lisa is not really watching you.
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During the fourth century, a group of Romans mysteriously decapitated already dead people and buried the heads between each owner's legs.
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Archaeologists used a remote sensing technique called lidar to unveil hidden treasures in southern Mexico.

Eighty years ago, in 1938, radio audiences were stunned by a purported news broadcast describing an "alien invasion" in New Jersey.

Just give us feathers, already.

Scientists analyzed the mysterious purple stains on an 800-year-old Vatican manuscript, and determined that several salt-loving marine bacteria were to blame.

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