Scientists demonstrate in mice how the brain cleanses itself during sleep: during non-REM sleep, the brainstem releases norepinephrine every 50 seconds, causing blood vessels to tighten and create a pulsing pattern

Meteorite Crash In Canada Is Caught By Home Security Camera

When a winter storm trapped a luxury passenger train near Donner Pass

Can you read this cursive handwriting? The National Archives wants your help

Divers recover Phoenician shipwreck that sank 2.6k years ago off coast of Spain

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Hungry Sea Otters Are Taking a Bite Out of California’s Invasive Crab Problem, New Study Finds

A 17,000-year-old boy from southern Italy is the oldest blue-eyed person ever discovered

A sneak peek at Notre-Dame's new stained glass designs

Saving the Apple's Ancient Ancestor in the Forests of Kazakhstan

We Built the Saturn V (2017)

A tale of demonic possession predicted the decline of an early medieval empire

Charles de Gaulle manuscripts discovered in a safe

A woman appeared on the English stage on this day in 1660

Voyager 1 Breaks Its Silence with NASA via a Radio Transmitter Not Used Since 81

New 3D Bioprinter Could Build Replicas of Human Organs, Offering a Boost for Drug Discovery

"The Hatpin Peril" Terrorized Men Who Couldn't Handle the 20th-Century Woman

Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface

Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues

Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)

A skeleton made from the bones of at least eight people thousands of years apart

19th-century ‘toy book’ demystified the techniques used by mediums

‘Found’ Dataset Reveals Lost Maya City Full of Pyramids and Plazas, Hiding in Plain Sight Beneath a Mexican Forest

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An Italian 'fruit detective' who investigates centuries-old paintings

Everest has gained as much as an extra 50m/165ft in elevation as the planet’s crust adjusts due to erosion from a river

Polar Night in the Northernmost Town

The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia

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