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Advanced Prosthetics Help a Dog Run And a Man Move Robotic Arms With His Mind
Two recent stories showcase the latest advances in prosthetics and the lives they have changed
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Oil Companies Are Pausing Plans to Drill the Arctic
Drilling the Arctic is hard, and with oil prices flagging, it may not be worth it
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Wisdom, the World’s Oldest Albatross, Laid an Egg
This is about the 35th time Wisdom has been a mother-to-be
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Vinyl Producers Can’t Keep Up With Hipsters’ Demands
Vinyl is cool again, but will it last?
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Back When Americans Could Travel Freely to Cuba, Here’s What It Looked Like
The U.S. broke off diplomatic relations with Cuba in 1960
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Now the Danes Have Staked a Claim for the North Pole, Too
The ultimate decision over who controls the North Pole will come down to the United Nations
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There Are Probably Just Five Northern White Rhinos Left
The death of a captive rhino at the San Diego Zoo brings the species closer to imminent extinction
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China Just Opened the World’s Largest Water Diversion Project
An unprecedented engineering project sends water to China’s parched North
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NASA Could Actually Get a Budget Boost Next Year
The pending budget will give NASA even more money than they asked for
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Chances Are Your Supermarket Tomatoes Were Picked By Mexican Workers Living in Terrible Conditions
An investigation reveals practices in Mexican farm labor camps that resemble slavery
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More Americans Are Pro-Gun Than Pro-Gun Control
Americans prioritize gun rights over gun control for the first time in at least 20 years
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The Plan to Save Louisiana’s Coast Is a ‘Moon Shot’
The plan involves moving silt from upstream down into the delta—but no one knows if there’s actually enough
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A Volcano on Cape Verde Is Wiping Out Whole Towns
An eruption at the Pico do Fogo volcano has forced 1,200 people to evacuate
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The First Piece of Code Written by an American President
The President participated in an introductory coding workshop as part of Computer Science Education Week
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An in-depth investigation of five cities using police body cameras highlights what the technology addresses and what it doesn’t
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Someone Walked Off With a Picasso From a Miami Beach Art Festival
An $85,000 silver plate went missing late last week
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That Detox Diet Is Not Going to Rid Your Body of Toxins
It doesn’t matter how many pureed veggies you drink, they won’t vaporize those mysterious “poisons” you’ve heard about
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Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters
The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist’s writings
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A Successful First Flight For NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
American spaceflight enters a new era
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Goodbye CAPTCHA: Just Click a Box to Prove You’re Not a Robot
Google is getting rid of spam bots and annoying squiggly text at the same time
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