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Pictures Reveal Life Inside Tiny Futuristic Cubes
Built in 1972, the Nakagin Capsule Tower was the benchmark of Japan’s post-war economic boom. Now, its future is uncertain.
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Do Crows Hold Funerals for Their Dead?
The highly intelligent birds gather around their fallen comrades, but why might surprise you.
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How Jetlag Disrupts The Ticks of Your Microbial Clock
Your genome is the same right now as it was yesterday, last week, last year, or the day you were born. But your microbiomes—the combined genes of all the trillions of microbes that share your body—have shifted since the sun came up this morning. And they will change again before the next sunrise.
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Meet the Man Who Has Lived Alone on This Island for 28 Years
Mauro Morandi's failing catamaran was carried to Budelli Island nearly three decades ago by chance. He never left.
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Curious Cat Walks Over Medieval Manuscript
A historian discovers paw prints—presumably those of a cat—on a medieval manuscript.