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Falcons Protect This Deep Space Antenna

Nesting birds and their droppings can keep space scientists’ telescopes from getting a clear signal

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Prosthetics Could Soon Have a Sense of Touch

A technology suprisingly inspired by Darth Vader

Francis Bacon, social networking superstar, strikes a pose ca. 1618.

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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon Is Your New Favorite Trivia Game

Move over, Kevin!

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JetBlue Goes Green with a Farm at JFK Airport

The airline hopes to produce herbs and around 1,000 pounds of blue potatoes each season

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How a Metronome Could Save a Life

An simple device could help save lives by keeping CPR on the beat

Harvesting a cocoa tree

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Who Will Save the World’s Chocolate?

As climate change threatens cocoa crops, rival food companies are banding together

People flocked to the streets during Paris' car-free day.

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A Car-Free Day in Paris Cut Pollution by 40 Percent

But will the city say <i>non</i> to smog for good?

Screenshot from "Live Texturing of Augmented Reality Characters from Colored Drawings" video

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Thanks to Augmented Reality, These Coloring Books Come to Life

The new technology takes 2D pictures and turns them into 3D magic

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Watch Drones Drop Thousands of Moths on Crops

Swarms of sterile moths could be coming to a cotton farm near you

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Feast Your Eyes on an Optical Illusion Cake

This may be the most delicious optical illusion

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Butt Dials Blamed for a Spike in 911 Calls

Reports put accidental pocket dials at 30 to 50 percent of mobile emergency calls

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Now There Are Diagnostic Codes for Squirrel Bites, Library Injuries and More

Hey, it could happen

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How a Captain Morgan Advertisement Inspired an Emergency Room Technique

Captain Morgan, hip fixer

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Scientists Can Now Sequence a Human’s Genome in 26 Hours

New tools cut sequencing time almost in half

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It Will Take Nine Years to Clean the Taj Majal

“Mudpack therapy” will help the iconic monument clean up its act

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This Man Tracked his Sneezes for Five Years and Fixed his Pollen Allergy

What a little bit of data about health can do

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Artisanal Pizza is Boosting the Coal Industry

Pizzerias are a new and growing market for coal companies

An illustration of Titanosaurs nesting — the large group the museum-bound specimen belongs to

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The Biggest Dinosaur to Walk the Earth Will Soon Be in a Museum

The as-yet-unnamed sauropod was about 130 feet long and will barely fit in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City

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This is the First Detailed Public Map of the U.S. Internet Infrastructure

The location of major cables was once a secret, but now researchers hope knowledge of it will spark conversations on how to keep the system safe

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This Tower Scrubs the Air of Smog

The project is intended to draw attention to the problem of air pollution

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