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- Female dolphins have weaponized their vaginas to fend off males (New Scientist)
- Meet the nocebo effect, the placebo effect's evil twin that makes you feel pain (Vox)
- 75 years after theft by Nazis, Amber Room still not found (The Local Europe)
- Radioactive pigs are wandering Central Europe, 30 years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (The Verge)
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