The most popular tech gadget from the year you were born

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Steve Jobs holding the first generation iPhone in 2007.
Steve Jobs holding the first generation iPhone in 2007.

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How the White House Easter Egg Roll became one of the oldest American traditions

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the 2022 White House Easter Egg Roll
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden attend the Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in 2022.

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'Oppenheimer' fact v. fiction: What the movie got right and wrong according to a nuclear historian

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J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the classroom.

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20 things you didn't know were invented by women

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Ruth Wakefield invented the first chocolate-chip cookie as a result of a baking mistake.

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17 presidents who grew up in surprisingly humble homes

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Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.
Jimmy Carter's childhood home in Plains, Georgia.

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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.

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Nobel Prize winners Ernest Lawrence Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Isaac Rabi stand together talking in the late 1930s
Ernest Lawrence, Enrico Fermi, and Isidor Rabi all won the Nobel Prize and contributed to the Manhattan Project.

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Human bones unearthed from a German cave have altered the timeline of ancient human history

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Researchers extracted ancient human bone fragments from the Ilsenhöhle cave in Ranis, Germany.

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2 ocean-tech companies are competing in a multimillion-dollar race to find Amelia Earhart's wreckage. One says it may be near the finish line.

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Amelia Earhart stands June 14, 1928, in front of her biplane called 'Friendship' in Newfoundland.

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In 1870, a Black woman sued her enslaver for reparations and won

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A man holds a sign as the Reparations Task Force meets to hear public input on reparations at the California Science Center in Los Angeles.

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Amelia Earhart's plane could be 'well preserved' but there's no guarantee it's been found, expert says

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Amelia Earhart's plane rising into the air after a 4,000-foot run at the start of the flight from Oakland, California, on March 17, 1937.
Amelia Earhart 's plane taking off from Oakland, California, on March 17, 1937.

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