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Discover the Origins of a Psychedelic Drug Synthesized by a Swiss Chemist Who Claimed It ‘Found and Called Me’
Five years after he created LSD in a lab on this day in 1938, Albert Hofmann accidentally underwent the first acid trip in ...
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How British College Students Convinced Authorities That Flying Saucers Were Invading the U.K.
To raise awareness for a charity event, aspiring engineers planted six UFOs across southern England on a single day in 1967 ...
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Before the Titanic Sank, a Cheerful Passenger Wrote in a Postcard That He Was ‘Leaving for the Land of Stars and Stripes’
A handwritten note by Richard William Smith, a British businessman who perished in the disaster, is heading to the auction ...
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Historians Thought This Was a Medieval Site Linked to King Arthur. It Turned Out to Be a Mysterious Monument Built 4,000 Years Earlier
Researchers have excavated King Arthur's Hall, a rectangular enclosure in southwest England, and determined that it dates to ...
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Inside the Brutal Murders That Inspired a Foundational Work in the True Crime Genre
Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" documented the killings of a family of four in rural Kansas on this day in 1959 ...
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Pompeii Introduces New Limits on Daily Visitors to Protect the Ancient City From Overtourism
A maximum of 20,000 people will be allowed to enter each day in an effort to protect the historic site in Italy, where ...
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Discover the Remarkable Paintings of Three Japanese Americans Whose Life Stories Are Told Through Their Work
A new exhibition spotlights a trio who pushed the boundaries of American art and illustrated the experiences of World War II ...
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ChatGPT or Shakespeare? Readers Couldn’t Tell the Difference—and Even Preferred A.I.-Generated Verse
A new study suggests people might like chatbot-produced poems for their simple and straightforward images, emotions and ...
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These Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Pebbles May Be Early Evidence of Wheel-Like Tools, Archaeologists Say
Researchers in Israel suggest the roughly donut-shaped artifacts could be spindle whorls, representing one of the oldest ...
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NASA Addresses Rumors About Health of Starliner Astronaut on the International Space Station—Again
The space agency’s chief health and medical officer refutes claims that Suni Williams, who is on the unexpectedly extended ...
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Ancient Egypt Meets the 21st Century at the New Grand Egyptian Museum
Egyptologist Huub Pragt and Smithsonian Journeys traveler Kellie Mecham share first impressions from their visit to the ...
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See Staggering Photos of the World’s Largest Coral, Newly Discovered by Scientists in the Pacific Ocean
The enormous organism is bigger than a blue whale and made up of millions of genetically identical, tiny animals called ...