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High Schoolers Might Code Rather Than Speak French
But proponents of foreign language schooling aren’t pleased
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Here’s How Europeans Quickly Evolved Lighter Skin
Darker skinned people lived in Europe until fairly recently
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An Autonomous Car Just Completed a 3,400-Mile Road Trip
Delphi’s robo-car drove itself across 15 states in just nine days
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A Sixth Sense Could Help the Blind “See”
In a new study, blind rats could get around by directly incorporating geomagnetic information
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Saturday’s Lunar Eclipse Will Be The Shortest This Century
Will you spot this weekend’s “blood moon”?
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Test Tube Burgers Get a $324,989 Price Cut
The scientists behind lab-grown meat think they can soon offer it at a price most of us can actually afford
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NYC Has So Many Coyotes Living There, They’ve Started Going to Bars
New York’s urban coyote population is booming — this week, one even ended up on top of a Long Island bar.
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A Racing Car Built in 1910 Roars to Life Once More
It was unofficially the fastest car in its time and still impresses today
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A Group of Endangered Orcas Has Gotten Busy Making Babies
Southern Resident killer whales have been on the decline, but new babies bring hope for the future
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UV Light Reveals the Colors of Fossil Shells
Patterns made visible help a researcher discover 13 new species of ancient cone snails
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California’s Drought Is Changing the Way Bay-Area Water Tastes And Smells
The Bay Area’s water is still safe to use, but drought is causing a noxious algae bloom to affect tap water
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Why the ESA’s Astronauts Train Underground
The European Space Agency is applying protocols from the International Space Station in caves
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3D Printing Could Help Developing Countries Predict Natural Disasters
The development of more affordable, 3D printed equipment could save lives
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Houston, We Might Have Some Major Problems Making Babies in Space
From risky pregnancies to birth defects to problems with inbreeding, it just seems like a bad idea
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This Onion Will Never Make You Cry
A Japanese food company has designed an onion that won’t make you cry
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Growing Plants Have Never Looked So Gruesome
All it takes is a slight shift of perspective to realize plants are far from inanimate
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Isaac Newton’s Laundry List of Sin
The famous physicist kept a catalog of very human transgressions
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