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These Adorable Robot Toys Teach Kids How to Code

The two bots using a basic visual language, and they are just one way to introduce children to computer programming

You're not fooling anyone, vegan sausage.

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Most Vegetarians Lapse After Only a Year

The vast majority of vegetarians return to eating meat

U.S. President Barack Obama participates in an "Hour of Code" event with middle-school students including Adrianna Mitchell in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, D.C.

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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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Dreams Are Slow-Motion

Lucid dreamers are offering insight into the sleeping mind

Sergeant Tanzanika Carter of the BART police force wears a body camera in San Francisco, CA

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Body Cameras Help Police

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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Norwegian Nobel Winners Release Their Inner Avant-Garde Musicians

Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine repurposed a Norse folk tune for a science lecture

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California's Ongoing Drought Is Its Worst in 1,200 Years

Tree ring records unveil the severity of California's drought

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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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The Science of the Red Sea's Parting

It is physically and scientifically possible for a body of water to part

An illustration of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on February 10, 1840.

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Queen Victoria Dreamed Up the White Wedding Dress in 1840

For most people, wearing a white wedding dress wasn't really a thing until the 1950s

Lettuce is fine, just eat something else as well.

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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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It’s Possible to See Exoplanets Without Schmancy Equipment

A cheap DSLR and some light computer processing can unveil far off exoplanets

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Like Underwater Jedi, Electric Eels Can Remotely Control Other Fish

Electric eels can shock prey into both revealing their positions and freezing in place

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Creep Through Albert Einstein’s Love Letters

The Digital Einstein archive offers a look into the great physicist's writings

The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Rocket lifts off with the Orion spacecraft for its first test flight

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A Successful First Flight For NASA's Orion Spacecraft

American spaceflight enters a new era

A bleached coral reef

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Listen to the Sounds of a Dying Coral Reef

Healthy coral reefs produce a medley of sounds that ocean creatures use as homing beacons

A steel engraving of Walt Whitman in his 30s from the first edition of Leaves of Grass, published in 1855.

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Found in "Penny Papers" from the 1800s, A Lost Walt Whitman Poem

A professor at the University of Nebraska stumbled upon an ode to Whitman’s contemporary William Cullen Bryant

A humpback whale in waters off southern Oman.

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Humpback Whales in the Arabian Sea Have Been Isolated for 70,000 Years

Conservationists want this particular population of humpbacks to be classified as critically endangered

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Bats Have Specific Brains Cells for Tracking Their Location While in Flight

Humans likely carry the same kind of cells in our own brains

A hippopotamus named Linda takes her calf Reginald for a swim in a pool at Whipsnade Zoo. England, 1954.

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Let Wildlife Recordings From the 1930s Take You Back to Nature

Hear African wildlife from the 1930s with the British Library's nature sound archives

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