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Boaty by another name: 'Sir David Attenborough' is chosen for research ship

Boaty by another name: 'Sir David Attenborough' is chosen for research ship

Boaty McBoatface received more than 124,000 votes in an online poll by Britain's Natural Environment Research Council — more than 10 times the 11,000 votes for Attenborough's name.

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3 strange worlds circling a cool star might be prime spots to support life

3 strange worlds circling a cool star might be prime spots to support life

Scientists say each of these planets has one searingly hot side that's always facing the star and one frigidly cold side that's always facing away. But the regions in between might be cozy.

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Bees need a safety buddy, and this dog is it

Bees need a safety buddy, and this dog is it

The newest apiary inspector at the Maryland Department of Agriculture is Mack, a 2-year-old yellow Lab. He joined the team last fall to help his inspect beehives for a highly contagious bacterial disease.
by Jodi Helmer

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Autonomous killer robots in battle: The good and the bad

Autonomous killer robots in battle: The good and the bad

New algorithms and huge new databases are allowing robots to navigate complex spaces. It doesn't take much imagination to conjure a future in which a swarm of those robots are used on a battlefield.

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Science Museum chosen by NASA for new educational effort

Science Museum chosen by NASA for new educational effort

A $14.5 million contract will allow staff from the Science Museum of Minnesota to create new programming based on NASA research for museums and educators nationwide.
by Jon Collins

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Not a drone after all? Unclear what hit that British Airways plane

Not a drone after all? Unclear what hit that British Airways plane

The incident prompted calls for more drone regulation, but a U.K. lawmaker now says it probably was not a drone that struck the plane. And an investigation has ended because of a lack of evidence.
by Dana Farrington

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Mars by 2018? SpaceX and NASA announce a new project

Mars by 2018? SpaceX and NASA announce a new project

The Red Dragon missions are aimed at figuring out what's needed "to land large payloads propulsively on Mars." For now, the plan doesn't include sending astronauts to the red planet.

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Scans show 'brain dictionary' groups words by meaning

Scans show 'brain dictionary' groups words by meaning

Brain maps constructed by MRI imaging show that language meaning is distributed throughout the brain's outer layer. And it turns out that different people organize language in similar ways.
by Geoff Brumfiel

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Prosecutor: No DNA exonerations after review of 14K Minn. cases

Prosecutor: No DNA exonerations after review of 14K Minn. cases

Officials examined more than 14,000 criminal convictions across Minnesota from the '80s and '90s to see if DNA technology could exonerate any convicted felons. Their conclusion? No.
by Laura Yuen

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