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Every Sunday — stories from science, its history, and the edges around it — the kind you almost certainly haven’t heard, often unusual, and worth knowing.
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During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, scientists starved to death surrounded by thousands of seeds they refused to eat — to protect the world’s first seed bank for future generations.
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To prove yellow fever wasn’t contagious, a doctor drank the vomit of infected patients — repeatedly. He was wrong about why it worked, but survived anyway.
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A packed passenger jet flew on autopilot for two hours — everyone on board unconscious. Fighter jets scrambled. One flight attendant was still moving.
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