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San Francisco cops remain stumped 6 months after the crime.
JWST spots dormant black hole 10 billion light-years from Earth
It’s the farthest object of its kind ever seen by astronomers.
Scotland’s ancient human-made islands are dripping with secrets
Crannogs may have been built by the country’s early inhabitants some 4,000 years ago.
The Cold War’s accidental whale observatory
Built to track enemy submarines, the Navy’s underwater listening network inadvertently revealed that whales may be singing across entire oceans.
World’s largest blanket fort built at Las Vegas community center
The 14,103-square-foot engineering marvel and Guinness world record holder filled a basketball court.
Velociraptor’s cousin flew like a flying squirrel
Four ‘wings’ helped the crow-sized avian dinosaur glide.
Eaglets Sandy and Luna spend their first night alone on the nest
But don’t worry, mama Jackie slept not too far away.
Humans really did move Stonehenge’s six-ton centerpiece
Melting ice age glaciers could’t have moved Altar Stone alone.
World’s biggest scorpions were the size of baseball bats
‘Praearcturus gigas’ stalked present-day England and Wales 415 million years ago.
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