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What self-driving cars can learn from brainless slime mold
NASA's InSight spacecraft just launched to Mars
Testing the limits of human vision
Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery
Bees are going extinct...but not the ones you think
How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi
The microbial truth of how your cheese gets made
How this 50-year-old NASA material could kill cancer
Inside a volcano scientist’s campaign for Congress
Test firing a new rocket engine (and watching it explode)
Your old phone is a veritable gold mine
Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet
Why wildfire season never stops
How NYC plans to survive the next superstorm
This monster plant is trying to take over. What if we let it?
Why Tesla is building city-sized batteries
88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it
