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This week’s articles include:

• 1:00 Why do we talk in our sleep? ‘It’s a glitch.’.
• 10:36 No, you don’t need 10,000 steps a day.
• 17:13 Does eating late at night really cause weight gain? A nutritionist explains.

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This week’s articles include:

• 1:00 Why do we put seatbacks up for landing? An aviation expert explains.
• 8:52 The Loch Ness Monster’s body is a ‘zoological impossibility’.
• 13:35 Why does the beach make you so tired?

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This week’s articles include:

• 1:00 This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour.
• 4:25 Human teens beat AI at an international math competition.
• 10:20 Four-day work week benefits workers and employers, new study shows.

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This week’s articles include:     • 0:55 US Army deploys plastic coyotes attached to mini four-wheelers.     • 6:33 For the first time, astronomers spot the beginning of a solar system.     • 13:07 Why do our ears pop on a plane? An audiologist explains.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:54 50 years of the ‘Jaws effect’.
• 7:30 Should you keep eggs in the fridge? Short answer: Yes.
• 12:28 Pet cat helps discover a new virus.

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This week’s articles include:

• 1:00 Wild orcas will sometimes offer food to humans.
• 5:45 17 rehabilitated sea turtles released off Cape Cod.
• 10:04 First complete ancient Egyptian DNA genome reveals his occupation.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:54 Archaeologists unearth cellar in America’s first school for enslaved children.
• 7:17 What would happen if you tried to land on a gas giant?
• 13:23 Einstein’s letter to Japan about atomic bomb fails to sell at auction.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:52 What’s the purpose of dreaming?
• 6:40 4 battery myths (and why they’re not true).
• 13:18 New paint ‘sweats’ to keep buildings cool.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:55 Archaeologists uncover royal tomb tied to the real King Midas.
• 5:20 What happens when our brain goes blank.
• 10:57 In what order did the planets in our solar system form?

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:57 Astronomers detect most powerful explosions since Big Bang.
• 6:54 Dead Sea Scrolls possibly even older than scholars thought.
• 11:58 Pocket watch from Great Lakes’ deadliest shipwreck returned to family.

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This week’s articles include:     • US ranks first in swearing.     • Bed bugs have been bothering humans for 60,000 years.     • Your cat probably knows your smell.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:59 4 coffee myths debunked by science.
• 6:17 Do I really need to wear sunscreen every day? We asked dermatologists.
• 13:46 Dogs can fulfill our need to nurture.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:58 Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?
• 6:44 Does kissing spread gluten? New research offers a clue.
• 11:03 NASA’s new space observatory is mapping the entire sky in 3D.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:58 Hikers discover nearly 600 gold coins dating back to 1808.
• 5:00 Lavish gravesite confirms women’s power in ancient South America.
• 9:32 NASA satellite spies Curiosity chugging along on Mars.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:56 3D-printed calamari is back on the menu.
• 4:04 AI still can’t beat humans at reading social cues.
• 11:34 Cheers to Bronze Age humans for delicious Italian wine.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:58 Curiosity rover finds key ingredient for past life on Mars.
• 6:13 Are cats really afraid of cucumbers?
• 12:25 The universe isn’t just expanding—it may be spinning.

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:58 Trees can snitch on illegal gold miners in the Amazon.
• 4:40 Why do our fingers wrinkle in water? It’s much deeper than skin.
• 10:27 Astronomers find spiraling stars heading towards a rare cosmic explosion.

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Readers Digest March/April 2025 Edition pg 24 13 Things - Tea Time! By  Patty LaNoue Stearns

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This week’s articles include:

• 0:58 Rare Merlin and King Arthur text found hidden in binding of medieval book.
• 6:55 Fancy humanoid robot no longer walks like it urgently needs a toilet.
• 11:04 Toxic dust on Mars could make astronauts sick.

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