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Boy Inhales Blowgun Dart

A 15-year-old boy in Ohio required a visit to the emergency room after he inhaled a dart from a homemade blowgun, according to a new report of his case.


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How Smart Is Advanced Artificial Intelligence? Try Preschool Level

One of the most advanced artificial intelligence systems is about as smart as preschooler, new research suggests. But your preschooler may have better common sense.


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Human Touch: Sensor Lets Robots 'Feel'

Robots do not look human just yet, but soon they may get the "human touch." Researchers say they have developed a flexible sensor able to detect temperature, pressure and humidity simultaneously, and more accurately than currently existing devices.

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Starry Night: Colors of Summer Stars Explained

One of the pleasures people can get out of stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in dark skies.


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Incredible Technology: How to Find Life on Mars

Editor's Note: In this weekly series, SPACE.com explores how technology drives space exploration and discovery.Finding life on Mars isn't easy.


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Who Inherits the British Throne?

News that Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, is in the early stages of labor has set the Internet abuzz with curiosity. And in a historic first, Kate's child is guaranteed to be in the line of succession for the British throne — regardless of its sex.

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Chinese Rocket Engine Test a Big Step for Space Station Project

China has successfully test-fired the rocket engine that will power the next-generation heavy-lift booster, the Long March 5, that will help drive the country's space exploration into the final frontier.


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Boeing Reveals Interior of New Commercial Space Capsule

HOUSTON — Boeing has thrown open the hatch to its new commercial spacecraft, offering a first look inside the capsule it is building in a bid to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.


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New Antarctic Evidence Reveals Past Melting

One of the wild cards in estimating future sea level rise from global warming is the enormous East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds more freshwater in its icy expanse than the whole of Greenland.


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Foul Corpse Flower Blooms in Washington

The aptly nicknamed corpse flower on display in Washington, D.C., has finally gone into full bloom, unleashing a stench like rotting flesh inside the U.S. Botanic Garden Conservatory.


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Smelly Situation: Why Some Flowers Reek

In the next few hours or days, an enormous blossom that reeks of rotting flesh will bloom in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. But the plant, aptly nicknamed the corpse flower, or titan arum, is only one of several hundred species of plants that produces stinky blooms reeking of dung and rancid carrion.


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