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Why Saudi Arabia Giving a Robot Citizenship Is Firing People Up
Saudi Arabia’s newest citizen is a robot named Sophia and she already has more rights than human women who live in the country
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A Short History of the Crosswalk
Pedestrian crosswalks and roads have a complicated relationship
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These Two Small Letters Heralded the Beginning of Online Communication
Their message is far more profound in retrospect than it was at the time
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Watch This RoboBee Surge From Water to Sky
Researcher hope that someday similar robots could help with everything from biological monitoring to search and rescue
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The Boston Public Library Is Digitizing 200,000 Vintage Recordings
With the help of the Internet Archive, the recordings from the Sound Archives Collection will one day be available for free streaming and download
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3-D Printed Cycling Bridge Unveiled in the Netherlands
It is reportedly the first-ever civil infrastructure project built with a 3-D printer
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These Dummies Gave Us a Crash Course on Auto Safety
Many of your car’s safety features owe a lot to these inanimate people
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John Z. DeLorean Thought He Was Designing the Car of the Future
Instead its almost-instantly out-of-date styling made it a legend
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Now You Can Virtually Visit Quttinirpaaq National Park, One of the Most Remote Places on Earth
Google Street Views records the wonders of the northerly jewel
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The Navajo Nation Might Lift a Longstanding Ban on Genetic Research
A policy written by tribal officials could help alleviate ethical concerns and guide genetic research and data sharing
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App Aims to be the “Shazam” of the Art Museum
With a database of 30 museums worldwide and growing, Smartify can use your phone camera to identify and explain works of art
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The Man Who Invented Nitroglycerin Was Horrified By Dynamite
Alfred Nobel–yes, that Nobel–commercialized it, but inventor Asciano Sobrero thought nitroglycerin was too destructive to be useful
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There Never Were 57 Varieties of Heinz Ketchup
The ‘57’ doesn’t actually refer to anything
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Virtually Explore a World War II Shipwreck in 360 Degrees
High-resolution video and 3D scanning brings the SS Thistlegorm to armchair archaeologists everywhere
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Exhibit Sheds New Light on Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party”
More than 130 years after it was completed, “Renoir and Friends” returns to the famed painting
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Small injuries are a commonplace problem, but before the Band-Aid, protecting papercuts and other such wounds was a huge hassle
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Jane Squire and the Longitude Wars
The sixteenth-century debate over how to determine longitude had a lot of participants—and one woman
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Agoraphobic Photographer Captures the World With Some Help From Google Street View
A new exhibition shows how Jacqui Kenny has photographed stunning images of the planet without leaving her London home
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People in the 1800s Dreamed of Bicycling on Water
Despite numerous patents, nothing really ever came of this fad
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Investigators Are Turning to Big Data to Find Who Betrayed Anne Frank
Many experts believe that someone alerted Nazi authorities to the hiding place of Frank and her family, but the culprit has never been determined
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