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Mine-Hunting Humans And Dolphins To Be Replaced by Robots

Just like human jobs, mine-sniffing dolphins are being replaced by robots

The bright streak shows the ISS passing over Germany.

Having Trouble Finding the ISS in the Night Sky? Have NASA Text You

NASA will email or text you to let you know when the ISS will be in your area

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Watch These Beetles Tear the Feathers off a Parrot

Sometimes you just want a skeleton

Don Pettit has a lot of cameras.

How Astronauts Take Such Beautiful Photographs in Space

How do astronauts capture such amazing photos? What gear do they use? What problems do they run in to?

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The Scientific Reason Complementary Colors Look Good Together

Science explains the dynamics behind bold pairings of complementary colors

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Picking Up Bacteria Is Now As Easy As Playing a Video Game

Using your hands, a Microsoft Kinect, and some laser tweezers, you can push around nanoscale objects

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The Hunt for Bigfoot Goes High Tech

If anyone can find Bigfoot, it's probably the drones

Island Nation Now Runs Entirely On Solar Power

A one-megawatt solar power plant now provides150% of the electricity demand of a small Pacific island nation

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One Day, Your House And Everything in It Could Be Made of Mushrooms

Houses, car parts, furniture--it could be a very mushroom-filled future

Glacier ice covers North America 126 thousand years ago.

Here’s Why We’re Not Living in an Ice Age (And Why That Matters for the Future)

The same feedback systems that took us from ice age to modern warmth are still around

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Brits Have Invaded Nine Out of Ten Countries

At various times, a new study found, the British have invaded almost 90 per cent of the countries around the globe

Cities, Bridges And Burning Man Don’t Build Themselves

As humankind expands into the far reaches of the world - we build things. Bridges, cities, buildings. How do those things get built?

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Top Secret WWII Message Found In Surrey Chimney

A message, carried by a long-dead pigeon, was found 70 years later in a chimney

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Passive-Aggressive Snarks Own Wifi Networks

For wifi network owners, things are getting personal. Network names now replace stick it notes as the means of conveying passive-aggressive snarks to annoying neighbors. The BBC did a little digging and found the following gems floating about in local cyber space: “Stop Stealing My Paper!” begins one exchange, to which the reply taunts: “FYI, I Don’t [...]

In Canada, People Gladly Trade in Guns for Shiny New Cameras

Give up your pistol, get a new point-n'-shoot camera

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The World’s Happiest Man Is a Tibetan Monk

Matthieu Ricard, a 66-year old Tibetan monk and geneticist, produces brain gamma waves never before reported in neuroscience

How to Tell If Your Kid Will Become a Great Artist

Spotting artistic talent in your own kid is hard - but here are some ways to do it

In the Middle East, Female Scientists Face Different Challenges

Rana Danaji, a professor of molecular biology in Jordan, weighed in in the journal Nature on what it's like to be a woman in science in an Arab world

Is Dancing Uniquely Human?

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Sandy Unearths Skeleton on New Haven Green

Hurricane Sandy delivered a gruesome mystery, just in time for Halloween

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