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Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic.
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What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?

2022’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat.
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DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go?

The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.
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'Largest Botnet Ever’ Tied to Billions in Stolen Covid-19 Relief Funds

Why does some wildlife thrive in the city? Figuring this out is the first step to boosting urban biodiversity. And that's good for everyone. 
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Why Some Animals Thrive in Cities

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A clinical trial reveals the first evidence of how the brain restructures physically in the first month on SSRIs—and the link between neuroplasticity and depression.
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