mystery
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The gown’s sudden reappearance is a marvel wrapped in a mystery, she noted.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2026
Museum experts have used CT scanning to examine the lock's internal mechanism, identify the correct letter combination and solve the mystery.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Read our critic’s review of this six-part mystery here.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The mystery surrounding 70 Oph AB began long before modern planet hunting.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
I’d done it on my own—I’d solved the mystery.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
The research addresses one of the most fundamental mysteries in physics: why does the universe contain matter instead of nothing at all?
From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2026
That’s one of life’s great mysteries: Why do we do things that we know are wrong, or bad for us?
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Your burning questions, answered: In the special segment Decoder Rings Back, host Willa Paskin answers listeners’ queries about cultural mysteries.
From Slate ● Oct. 27, 2026
Our stories of justice, from murder mysteries to tales of thwarted romance, invariably climax not with revelation but with confession.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Ever since the 1930s, Pinewood had been home to movies ranging from early Alfred Hitchcock mysteries to massive Star Wars blockbusters.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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