History

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Feature

The Rise and Fall of DisneyChannel.com, the Trailblazing Online Gaming Site That Time Forgot

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Review

Guy Ritchie's Bloody New Heist Thriller is His Best Movie in Years

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Retrospective

20 Years Ago, Quentin Tarantino's Most Underrated Revenge Thriller Pulled Off the Impossible

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Science

A Scientist Found Something Truly Bizarre Inside A Fossilized Dinosaur Eggshell

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Science

Ancient Australians May Have Used the Great Barrier Reef to Survive Even Earlier Than We Thought

BySean Ulm, Ian J. McNiven, Kenneth McLean and The Conversation
Gaming

3 Decades Ago, These "Pioneering" Young Actors Changed Video Games Forever

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Science

A Geneticist Reveals What It Really Means to Have Viking DNA

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Science

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25 Years Later, a Foundational Internet Franchise Is Finally Going Back to Basics

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The Science of Eclipses Is Full Of Miscalculations, Bonfires, And Bad Weather

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The Record Of Ancient Eclipses Offers Strange Clues About Our Modern Planet

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20 Years Ago, an Audacious Writer Made a Mind-Blowing Sci-Fi Movie That Was Ahead of Its Time

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Opinion

The 2 Most Misunderstood Films of the Decade Expose Hollywood’s Biggest Failing

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News

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TV

Hulu's Best Action Epic of 2024 Avoids One Tired Storytelling Cliché

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space

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Science

Would Humans Be Better Off With Tails? Science Reveals the Complicated Answer

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Science

An Ancient Bone With Traces of Psychoactive Compounds Inside Has Stumped Scientists

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Health

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The Inverse Interview

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Anatomy of a Meme

The most hated Nintendo game ever exposes 1 ugly truth about fandom

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Taste of the Holidays

How do Christmas cakes last for years? Inside the “perfect storm” of preservation

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Martin Scorsese's Epic First Western Is a Hollywood Blockbuster Like No Other

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Landlocked

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Cult of Nintendo

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Video Games Issue 2021

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Worldview

Genetics study reveals the route of an ancient Pacific Ocean odyssey

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SpaceTime

50 years ago, the U.S. and U.S.S.R. joined forces to ensure astronauts could survive in space

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Coined

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The Inverse Interview

How 'The Green Knight' brought its most iconic character to life

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Paranoid Android

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Man out of time

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How to Save the Earth

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Mind over matter

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One Year Later

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