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A New Rose Is Part Plant, Part Color-Changing Machine

Innovation has never looked so pretty

The winning video featured hip hop dancers as farmers who put demands on the water supply

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The Many Ways to "Dance Your Ph.D"

Once again, researchers get creative in a yearly dance competition to explain their Ph.D. thesis work

Youth gather near the White House as part of the "Our Generation, Our Choice" climate change march on November 9, 2015

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Hundreds of Thousands March With Hope for Climate Action

Demonstrations around the world have already begun in the days leading up to the Paris climate summit

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These Videos Will Change the Way You Think About Travel Photography Forever

A new technique lets you zoom through the world without leaving your desk

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A Gothic Chapel Is Transformed Into a Spectacular Sky

Staring at the ceiling has never been so inspiring

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Five Things to Know About the Genetically Engineered Salmon Approved by the FDA

Sustainable seafood or "Frankenfish"?

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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

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