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A World War Two bomb discovered at a building site in Plymouth will be destroyed in a controlled explosion on Friday.

From BBC • Apr. 30, 2026

They contain internal scaffolding, tightly controlled chemical processes, and genetic instructions that guide nearly everything they do.

From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026

Founded in the early 20th century, Kone has been controlled for about a hundred years by the Herlin family.

From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026

It didn’t mean the resort belonged to his virtual-currency venture or was controlled by it, Sui said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 28, 2026

To the Pythagoreans, ratios and proportions controlled musical beauty, physical beauty, and mathematical beauty.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife