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A giant truck carrying tar sand from a mine in Canada

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Utah Has the First Tar Sands Mine in the U.S.

The mine will operate on land in the Book Cliffs area

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There’s Now Whiskey On the ISS

(But astronauts can't drink it)

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Psychopaths Might Be Immune to Contagious Yawning

The less empathetic someone is, the less likely they are to yawn back.

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Japan’s Subways Now Have Drunk-Spotting Cameras

A pilot program seeks to save drunken passengers from the dangers of busy train tracks

Two roads diverged in a wood and I — I took the one traveled by a robot, thanks.

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This is a Robot Taking a Leisurely, Terrifying Walk in the Woods

Mechanical humanoid robots have never been so relaxed

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Drone Racing Wants to Become a Professional Sport

The Drone Racing League just got $1 million from Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross

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Is Chocolate Milk the Next Sports Drink?

It all comes down to cows

The leading hemisphere of Dione shows tectonic faults running across its surface, along with craters, in false color, which was produced by an image in the ultraviolet, green, and infrared wavelengths taken by the Cassini Orbiter. The subtle variations in color may be caused by fine ice particles.

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Today, Cassini Will Say Goodbye to Saturn’s Moon Dione

It's curtains for the NASA mission's close relationship with the satellite

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Cadavers Are Teaching Doctors to Be More Empathetic

By getting to know the person behind the cadaver, new doctors are honing the skills they'll use on living patients

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A New Cooking Oil Can Be Reused 80 Times

Could it make for better French fries and disrupt a worldwide black market at the same time?

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The European Space Agency Wants to Build a Moon Village

Someday soon, the hot new European vacation spot could have a great view of the planet Earth

Engineers at Cambridge University created a robot that could build and improve on other robots, in an artificial form of natural selection.

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Watch a Robot Evolve

It's the mother of all robots

Monique Hammerslag of the Dutch police force in Rotterdam with two of her recruits

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Inside a Dutch Police Academy...for Rats

Cigarette-sniffing rats are creating new job opportunities for their fellow rodents

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Teenage Girls Have Led Language Innovation for Centuries

They've been on the cutting edge of the English language since at least the 1500s

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Bats and Balloon Bombs: The Weird Weapons That Could Have Won WWII

World War II's lesser-known weapons were ingenious, indeed

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The Washing Machine of the Future May Use Beads Instead of Water

A new washing machine cuts down on water use with deep-cleaning polymer beads

Jobs holds up an iPhone 4 at a tech conference in 2010.

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Steve Jobs is About to Get His Own Opera

But will it include a singing Woz?

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By Keeping Cows From Burping, This Drug Could Slow Down Climate Change

That cheeseburger may soon be less harmful to the environment

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Balloon or Drone? The Internet's Space Race is Heating Up

Facebook and Google battle to provide the best internet connection from the edge of the atmosphere

A vintage Antonov An-2 in Poland.

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North Korea's Military Still Uses Stealth Planes From the 1940s

The An-2 can hover and fly backwards

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