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A Robot Monk Is Spreading Buddhist Teachings in China
An adorable robot serves up automated mantras
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A German City Installed Traffic Lights For Texters
In Augsburg, distracted smartphone users don’t have to look up to stay safe
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Thirty Years Later, a Gigantic Arch Is Set to Cover Chernobyl
The New Safe Confinement is one of history’s most ambitious engineering projects—and it comes not a moment too soon
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Help First Responders in Ecuador Without Leaving Your Desk
Scour satellite imagery of earthquake-stricken areas to help aid agencies decide where to go next
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Your Body Could One Day Be a Computer Display
Forget screen time—a new technology is all about skin time
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New York’s Newest Urban Farm Floats
A barge bursting with vegetables takes to the water this summer
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Could Virtual Reality Inspire Empathy for Others?
Virtual reality could allow users to step into someone else’s shoes, experiencing things like having migraines or swapping genders
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“New” Rembrandt Created, 347 Years After the Dutch Master’s Death
The painting was created using data from more than 168,000 fragments of Rembrandt’s work
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Researchers Make Cyborg Beetles a Reality
Outfitted with microprocessor-equipped backpacks, scientists can control the beetle’s steps via remote control
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Tower Lights Will Soon Blink for the Sake of Birds
With a simple blink, tall towers can go from deadly to bird-friendly
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Switzerland Will Host the First Cyborg Olympics
The “Cybathlon” will show what happens when humans and machines collaborate
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Tesla vs. Edison Is a Video Game That Will Literally Shock You
Fight the ‘War of the Currents’
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An AI-Written Novella Almost Won a Literary Prize
A short novel co-written by humans and AI passed the first round of a Japanese literary contest
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This News Website Is a Lakota-Speaker’s “Dream”
Woihanble.com could help preserve a threatened language
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Tropical diseases and coal tar have a lot to do with brightly-colored clothing
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This Pattern Is Made of 2,100 Dead Birds
It’s all part of a bid to raise awareness of the plight of birds that crash into city buildings
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Virtual Reality is Coming to Real-Life Rollercoasters
Soar with Superman or pilot an alien-fighting jet
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