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Stop Calling it Bird Flu: World Health Organization Calls for More Care in Naming Diseases

New naming guidelines issued to avoid stigmatizing communities.

Rhodiola rosea

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Alaska is Growing a Plant the Soviet Military Used in Secret Experiments

Golden root, or Rhodiola rosea, is also popular in Siberian folk medicine

The Hall of Names at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum.

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This Company is Turning Holocaust Survivor Interviews into Holograms

Researchers are using new technology to keep Holocaust testimonies alive

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How Snow Keeps the World’s Most Powerful Space Telescope Squeaky Clean

CO2 snowflakes are being tested for use with Hubble’s successor

Claude Monet’s Water Lilies at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris, France

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Computers Are Learning About Art Faster than Art Historians

An algorithm took just a few months to draw connections between artists that scholars have been working on for years

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New York State Forms Emergency Task Force to Protect Manicurists

State authorities spurred into action by New York Times expose uncovering health risks and wage theft in New York City’s nail salons

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Starbucks Moves its Bottled Water Operations Out of California’s Drought

Bottling water in California might not be a great idea, but many companies still do it

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How to Crash a Drone, Safely

It’s time to teach drones how to safely land in an emergency.

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A Streak in the Sky: Photographer Captures an Incredible Time-lapse Image of the Moon

Janne Voutilainen’s photo took nearly 40 minutes to shoot

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Here’s How NASA is Keeping The Satellites Around Mars From Running Into Each Other

NASA is beefing up traffic monitoring as more satellites enter orbit around the red planet.

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The Very First Self-Driving Semi Truck Has Hit the Road

The Freightliner Inspiration is the first commercially-licensed autonomous truck

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Department of Justice Says it’s Time to Reevaluate the Stingray Phone-Tracking System

New report says agency to take a look into cell phone snooping.

Diamond crystal on kimberlite from Eastern Siberia

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This African Plant Leads the Way to Diamond Deposits

A palm-like plant seems to grow only on top of diamond-rich deposits called kimberlite pipes

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This is How Bombardier Beetles Fire Explosives From Their Butts

The beetls have a special chamber in their abdomens where they mix together chemicals to produce an explosive reaction

Lenin's body in 1991. Thanks to the Lenin Lab, the corpse still looks virtually the same today.

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Meet the Group of Scientists That Keeps Lenin’s 90-Year-Old Corpse Fresh

90 years later, Vladimir Lenin’s body is still maintained by a Russian lab

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Report Suggests Top Psychologists Worked With the C.I.A. on Torture Program

Newly-published emails reveal secret collaboration between the A.P.A. and Bush Administration

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Here’s Why The Italian Army is Growing Weed

They want to lower the price of medicinal marijuana by growing their own

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The U.S. Military Has Developed Self-Steering Bullets

Hi-tech bullets can help snipers hit moving targets

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Have a Tattoo? The Apple Watch Might Not Work For You

Some people with wrist ink say the Apple Watch can’t detect their skin

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This Is the View From Inside the Cockpit of a Solar-Powered Plane

There won’t be much sightseeing as the solar-powered airplane crosses the Pacific

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