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A trove of books written by medieval-era French monks were bound with bizarre “hairy” covers from far-away animals — shedding ...

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China's Ministry of Education has published an action plan to further promote reading among students across the nation. With new and diverse book recommendations, the reading scene is expected to be ...

Results from both objective (Blinks per second) and subjective (Visual Fatigue Scale) measures suggested that reading on the ...

A grisly Bible story about an ancestor of Jesus may be true, jaw-dropping new evidence from a site dubbed 'Armageddon' ...

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