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The Hidden Costs of Having a Gifted Child

Exceptional talent in children can be a source of financial and emotional stress for parents who don’t feel equipped

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The Classic Coca-Cola Bottle Turns 100 Today

To this day, the shapely glass bottle defines the classic drink

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Minnesota Is Expanding Its Bike Share to Include Canoes

Because bikes and boats are a perfect pair

Ships along the Mississippi River in New Orleans

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Is $30 Million Enough to Save the Mississippi River Basin?

The USDA has a plan to help the troubled watershed

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These French Vending Machines Sell Short Stories

Super-short fiction that's as good as any snack

Soon, space miners could lay claim to minerals in asteroids like this one.

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Get Your Pickaxe and Spacecraft Ready, Space Mining Might be Legal Very Soon

The new Space Act would open up the potentially lucrative field of asteroid mining

A painted wooden coffin beside a looted tomb in the Abu Sir al Malaq necropolis in Bani Suef, Egypt.

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This Ingenious Archaeologist Uses Satellites to Hunt Down Tomb Raiders

Can satellite imagery help protect humanity's priceless artifacts?

Hedy Lamarr, mother of modern wifi.

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Happy Birthday Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood Star Turned Scientist

The beauty had brains—after all, she invented the tech behind Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS

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Whisky Grains and Coffee Grounds Could Help Clean up Nuclear Waste

Distilleries could soon be helping save the environment as they bottle up their next batch of brown

Praise hands, this robot is happy face!

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This Keyboard Lets You Type in Emoji

[heart-shaped eyes] + [clapping hands] + [money bag]

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Forget the Hazy Clouds—The Internet is in the Ocean

This new video explores the 550,000 miles of cable that keeps the internet humming

Russia's Anna Sidorova plays during the 2014 World Women's Curling Championship.

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The World of Competitive Curling Has Its Very Own Scandal

Is new technology too dominant for the Olympic sport?

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How Computers Learned to Play Nintendo

Super Mario World is a great test for artificial intelligence

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Pink Gumdrops Are Solving a Sticky Crisis in London

The receptacles are part of the world's first chewing gum recycling program

For now, visually impaired people must rely on captions like these for descriptions of the images on the internet. (This is a picture of an eye reflecting Facebook's home page).

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In the Future, Facebook Will Describe Photos for Blind People

A visual internet poses many challenges for people that are visually impaired

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Future Cops May Track Down Criminals By Making Fingerprints Glow

One scientist's revenge could be the ultimate crime-fighting tool

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This Norwegian Modern Art Museum Is Also a Bridge

An ingeniously twisted design blends art with infrastructure

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Great Scott! Stanford Invented a Self-Driving DeLorean Just in Time for Back to the Future Day

But does it use 1.21 gigawatts of electricity?

Was this article written by a data-driven word processing machine...or a robot?

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The Robo-Journalists Are Coming

But did a machine write this story?

Lee Harvey Oswald stands in his backyard with Marxist newspapers and a rifle. This photo has been looked on with suspicion ever since Oswald called it a fake after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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3D Model Showed Controversial Photo of John F. Kennedy’s Assassin Is Not a Fake

Doubts surrounded the incriminating photo since Kennedy was assassinated in 1963

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