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On a stormy Monday in March, 1827, the German composer Ludwig van Beethoven passed away after a protracted illness.

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A ribbon worm picked up on a Scottish beach in 1864 is thought to be the world's longest animal ever found alive. Some ...

In a study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, we analyzed 38 million obituaries of ...

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"Most dementia research understandably focuses on changes associated with [age-related cognitive] decline in later life. But ...

Dick Van Dyke, the legendary American actor and comedian who starred in classics such as Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang ...

Thousands of meters underground, in the chthonic depths of Earth's crust, scientists have at long last caught solar neutrinos ...

The regular consumption of eight energy drinks a day may have contributed to a mild stroke in a middle-aged man in the UK.

When archaeologists unearthed small cat bones in China dating back some 5,400 years, they figured cats had been hanging out ...