A landmark study by epidemiologist Sam Goldman compared Marines stationed at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where trichloroethylene (TCE) had contaminated the water supply for approximately 35 years, against those at Camp Pendleton in California, which has clean water. Marines exposed to TCE at Lejeune were 70% more likely to develop Parkinson's.

Ultimately, more than 28 AWS services were disrupted, causing perhaps billions in damages, one analyst estimated for CNN

Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe

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In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetence

Nepal’s government has lifted its ban on 26 prominent social media apps and messaging services after at least 19 people were killed and more than 200 injured in clashes on Monday

Discover the history of Magic Eye 3D images, how they were created in the 90s, and how to make your own using a PC program

He teaches schoolchildren about how bombs were tested, and how – more than 30 years after the site was decommissioned – the community is only really beginning to understand radiation's powerfully harmful effects

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes

Scientists say flaws in previous research mean health benefits from alcohol were exaggerated

What were the binding constraints on a Roman Industrial Revolution?

"....fry human flesh for dinner, and then listen to them talk about how great things were going. You can read all about these horrors in Yang Jisheng's epic book, Tombstone. His own father died in the famine"

Those born after 1995, argues Jonathan Haidt in his new book, were the first people in history to go through puberty with a portal to an alternative universe in their pockets – and the toll this has taken on their wellbeing has been devastating

UK is officially the world’s second-most miserable country; these were the happiest and unhappiest countries of 2023

Die Krankenschwester des Horrors!

The 2020 Tokyo Olympics Were Predicted 30 Years Ago by Akira

Incas were masters in almost everything. But without an economy - they even had no marketplaces at all