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Wine Tasting Not For You? Try Honey Tasting

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The best honey probably doesn't come in a plastic bear

Honey sommelier Carla Marina Marchese walked us through the art of Honey Tasting at the Museum of Food and Drink Lab in Williamsburg, Brooklyn…

SpaceX Lands Its Fourth Rocket

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falcon 9 lands on drone ship

They're gonna need a bigger hangar

On Frida, SpaceX launched the 7,000-pound Thaicom 8 satellite into space and landed its rocket on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You."…

Fall(Out) Guy Part 14

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It's Time to Mosey On, Folks

This series on radiation, health, safety, and ecology has come to end. Stay tuned for more stories in future installments.

China Goes Big With One of World's Largest Support Ships

Another Nail In The Antibiotic Coffin

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The arrival of an antibiotic resistant gene in the US has moved us closer to the post-antibiotic era

The discovery of a bacterium capable of resistant many antibiotics including colistin is fearful but these drugs are not quite at their end.

This Might Be The Largest Sponge In The World

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Largest Known Sponge

Cleanup on the ocean floor!

In a paper published last week in Marine Biodiversity researchers described the discovery of a giant sponge, measuring an estimated 12 feet by 7 feet, found 7,000 feet…

Here's Some Slow Motion Lightning To Brighten Your Day

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Lightning teaser

Until we can capture it in a bottle, slo mo footage is the best way to study this force of nature

Under normal circumstances, lightning is fast. Lightning fast. Blink-and-you'll miss it fast.

See The Difference One Year Makes In Artificial Intelligence Research

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An improved way of learning about neural networks

This Is The Difference One Year Makes In Artificial Intelligence Research…

Watch A 100-Year-Old Naval Battle In Animation

Solve A Rubik’s Cube With Augmented Reality

Asteroids, Not Comets, Brought Bulk Of Moon's Water

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Moonset Viewed from the International Space Station

A very special delivery

Comets may not have played as big of a part in the moon’s early surface as once thought.

Air Force Plan For 2030 Doesn't Mention The F-35

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KC-10A Flies Resupply Mission To South Pole

The most expensive fighter jet in history is missing from the future, even though we're buying 1,700 of them

The “Air Superiority 2030 Flight Plan,” a new document released by the Air Force today, is an attempt to identify the battlefields of the future.

Hydrothermal Vents Are Way More Important Than We Thought

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Giant Tubeworms at a Hydrothermal Vent

And are under attack

Forty years since the discovery of hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean, a new review in Frontiers in Marine Science out last week describes what research has begun to…

Toyota Will Probably Buy Robot Makers From Google

Internet of Things Project Allows Quadriplegic Driver to Race

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Arrow SAM 3.0 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

Arrow's SAM 3.0 project is piloted by former Indy driver Sam Schmidt

Quadriplegic Sam Schmidt is able to drive the IoT-enabled SAM 3.0 project car from tech company Arrow, reaching over 150 mph on the track.

Jeff Bezos Thinks We Should Build Factories In Space

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Says we should move industry to orbit in the next few hundred years

The best way to make room for a growing population is to move manufacturing and industry into orbit, according to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. At the Code Conference this…

Apple's iOS 10 Event Will Take Place On June 13

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Will bots come to iMessage?

Apple's yearly software event will start up on June 13.

JetBlue Will Run On Android

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Or at least its new inflight entertainment will

Android users will feel slightly more at home on JetBlue flights in the near future. The airline has debuted an Android-powered user interface as part of an extensive…

Facebook's A.I. Will Analyze Your Posts To Help You Post Better

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Facebook can now automatically prompt users to make a proper Sale post if it sees they're trying to sell something.

"Hi! It looks like you're trying to sell a washing machine."

Facebook's A.I. Will Read Every Post And Message You Send…

Promiscuous Sparrow Wives May Cause Deadbeat Sparrow Dads

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House Sparrow

Birds, they’re just like us, with feathers

After twelve years of research of a cloistered population on the island Lundy in the UK, the researchers found that it was not that the males could tell that the chicks…
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