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Mars express captures dozens of dust devils in Mars valley
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A nearby black hole as a window into the early universe
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How Keurig saved — and ruined — your coffee
Before Keurig, the coffee in your office was almost certainly terrible. Old, burned, made by som...
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Mini monitor measures artificial heartbeat
An international team, including the University of Tokyo, has created a sensor inspired by the l...
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Vizio accidentally made the best dumb TV on the market
When I first started testing Vizio's 65-inch Mini LED Quantum TV, I thought the big story was th...
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Where Iran stands on the memorandum it signed with the U.S
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Sanam Vakil, director of the Middle East & North Africa Program at...
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Xbox is a disaster
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Wild yeast discovery enables non-GM brewing of ornithine-enriched craft beer
As consumer interest grows in foods and beverages with added nutritional value, brewers are expl...
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Spain data on 5.5 million convictions challenges immigration-crime link
When analyzing crime, the foreign population typically shows higher rates than the native popula...
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Controlling magnetic chirality could help memory pack in more data
Magnetic storage devices, like a computer's hard disk drive, utilize magnets to represent binary...