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Saturday

Friday

You're going to have to work a little harder to get your Cracker Jack prize. Mike Mozart/Flickr hide caption

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Cracker Jack's Prize In The Box Will Now Be Digitized

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The Large Hadron Collider uses superconducting magnets to smash sub-atomic particles together at enormous energies. CERN hide caption

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Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider

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Thursday

A Wednesday night airstrike at a hospital in Aleppo, Syria, killed more than a dozen people. Beha el Halebi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption

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Hospital Destroyed In Deadly Aleppo Airstrike, Doctors Without Borders Says

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Tuesday

Sauropods were one of the most successful groups of dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth. New research helps explain why. Stocktrek Images/Getty Images hide caption

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Superhearing And Fast Growth ... Scientists Learn Why Sauropods Ruled

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Liverpool supporters were crushed against a barrier in 1989, in what became Britian's worst sports disaster. Some 96 fans died in the incident at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England. David Cannon/Getty Images hide caption

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Thousands of people in Melbourne, Australia, took to the streets on March 20 during a protest demanding that refugees not be sent to Manus Island in Papua New Guinea or to the republic of Nauru. Recep Sakar/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images hide caption

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Monday

Sunday

Beyoncé has released a new visual album called Lemonade. Beyoncé on Tidal/Screenshot by NPR hide caption

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Beyoncé Surprises The World Again With New Visual Album 'Lemonade'

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Solar Impulse 2 pilots Bertrand Piccard (right) and Andre Borschberg celebrate after Piccard landed their solar-powered plane at Moffett Field in Mountain View, Calif., on Saturday. Noah Berger/AP hide caption

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