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Former US Rep. William Delahunt of Massachusetts has died at age 82 : NPR

U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., faces reporters during a news conference in Quincy, Mass., on Feb. 22, 2010. Steven Senne/AP…

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Signs of Anthropocene age show what we’ve done to Earth : Goats and Soda : NPR

This aerial photo depicts the sawmills of Lagos, Nigeria. The timber from the country’s rainforests, some of the most heavily…

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Rare traces of tooth decay and gum disease found in Bronze Age teeth

Keeping our teeth clean has been a pain for thousands of years, with some particularly painful methods historically used to…

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As we age, our cells are less likely to express longer genes

Aging may be less about specific “aging genes” and more about how long a gene is. Many of the changes…

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A North Dakota ballot question could be a test case for political age limits : NPR

Sunlight illuminates the North Dakota House of Representatives in Bismarck, N.D. A ballot question will ask North Dakota voters whether…

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British Pompeii: Amazingly preserved Bronze Age village reveals life in ancient England

An intact hafted axe found under one of the structures that burnt down at the Must Farm site Cambridge Archaeological…

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Bronze Age village was ‘pretty cozy’—until Britain’s Pompeii

It was once a small and seemingly cozy late Bronze Age village. A settlement of five circular dwellings was built…

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Wealth remains solidly the hands of few, finds inequality nonprofit warning of new ‘Gilded Age’

Taking a modern-century spin on “let them eat cake,” shareholders are having the whole cake, and eating it too. It’s…

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Kissing and eating during the Stone Age ‘could be lethal’

Life in the Stone Age was pretty tough for our ancestors. There were animals to fend off and track for…

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Guinness is entering a ‘golden age’ thanks to social media-obsessed millennials

If you’re in London this St. Patrick’s Day, you’re likely to find a decent-quality Guinness within a few hundred meters. …

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