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- Over 12 million pages of CIA documents are now accessible online (Smithsonian magazine)
- CREST: 25-year program archive (Central Intelligence Agency)
- Well, that sucks: Vampire bats found drinking human blood (Live Science)
- Female shark learns to reproduce without males after years alone (New Scientist)
- How the darkness and the cold killed the dinosaurs (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
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