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"Lotus, An X-ray" c. 1930's.

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Check Out These X-Rays of Flowers From the 1930s

Dain L. Tasker’s radiographs depict delicate flowers from the inside out

Technicians hard at work are dwarfed by the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator

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A New Experimental Fusion Reactor Powers Up in Germany

The reactor's first test was brief but successful

Mutations in mitochondria (marked in blue) can lead to serious genetic diseases.

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U.S Panel Deems "Three Parent Babies" Ethical to Test

Mitochondrial replacement therapy could help prevent genetic diseases

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The Only Known Jaguar in America Was Finally Caught on Video

“El Jefe” made a rare appearance in Arizona

Hospital Apprentices second class Ruth C. Isaacs, Katherine Horton and Inez Patterson (left to right) were the first black WAVES to enter the Hospital Corps School at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. Photographed March 2, 1945.

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Photographs Document Some of the First Black Women to Serve With the U.S. Navy

Black women were not allowed to join WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) until 1944

Could meatballs like these one day be made in a lab?

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This Biotech Company Is Growing Meatballs in a Lab

In just a few years, lab-grown meat might make it to the market

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British Monks Discovered a Curry Recipe in a 200-Year-Old Cookbook

The Portuguese brought the dish to Europe when they began colonizing India

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Which States Have the Fastest Talkers?

Next time you hear, "this call may be recorded," an analytics firm could be analyzing every word

Emperor penguin chicks huddle for warmth. New research shows that huddling behavior, or aggregation, may vary across penguin colonies.

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Here's the Latest on Penguins

From invasive "fairies" to huddling chicks, penguins are the perfect pick-me-up

The woven courtyard will feature wading pools and a colorful kaleidoscope of ropes.

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A Museum Courtyard Will Be Taken Over by a Colorful Web

“Weaving the Courtyard” will bring a kaleidoscopic of color to MoMA PS1

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Infants Can See Things That Adults Cannot

Over time, our brains start filtering out details deemed unimportant

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Women "Catch" Yawns More Easily Than Men

Researchers sneakily observed thousands of interactions to see if gender made a difference in the contagiousness of yawning

An image of the fossilized lacewing Oregramma illecebrosa, left, and the modern owl butterfly Calico Memnon, right.

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Jurassic-Era Insect Looks Just Like a Modern Butterfly

Jurassic "butterflies" helped pollinate ancient plants millions of years before the butterfly even existed

A pre-production sketch of Persephone, a human princess that served as a test run for Walt Disney's "Snow White."

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Snow White Wasn’t the First Disney Princess

Dwarfs, meet Persephone

A 1950s Mountain Dew ad as photographed in Jakes Corner, Arizona

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Mountain Dew Once Had Ties to Moonshine

The original soda named Mountain Dew was supposed to be a whiskey accompaniment

A trumpet recovered from the USS Houston undergoes treatment at the Naval History and Heritage Command's Underwater Archaeology Branch laboratory on the Washington Navy Yard, Dec. 31, 2013.

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A Trumpet Retrieved From a World War II Shipwreck Could Still Hold Its Owner’s DNA

Conservators are trying to identify the sailor who once played it

"You & I," by Pranita Kocharekar.

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This Company Transforms Indian Taxicabs Into Original Artworks

Intricately designed fabrics help taxi drivers stand out from the crowd

Teslasuit, a full-body VR suit, worn in a demo.

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What It Feels Like to Don a Skintight Virtual Reality Suit

Though it sounds a little weird, it might be the future of virtual reality

This Venus flytrap is just biding its time to ensure the meal is worth its energy.

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Venus Flytraps Know How to Count

Figuring out when to chomp is as easy as one, two, three, four, five

A view of Earth from a replica of the Cupola Observation Module.

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Check Out This Scale Replica of The International Space Station

Pretend you’re in orbit without ever leaving the ground

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