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	(Sponsor this newsletter) 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More » 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. Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) FtBCON: Science Communication FtBCON: Science Communication Read More » Student Engineers Spark Zero-Gravity Fires on Weightless Wild Ride HOUSTON — Gravity, we have defied you. Seven university student teams from across the United States escaped the pull of Earth's gravity — if only for a few seconds — on a NASA microgravity flight to see how fire, liquids and magnets behave in weightlessness. Read More » Catastrophic Mud Eruption Had Natural Causes, Study Finds A catastrophic mud eruption in Indonesia blamed on drilling by an oil company might instead have natural causes, new research suggests. Read More » Climate Change Could Wipe Out Iberian Lynx Climate change could ensure the wipe out of the Iberian Lynx, considered the world's most endangered cat, new research from Spain suggests. Read More »
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	(Sponsor this newsletter) Two Rare Persian Leopard Cubs Born in Russia Two Persian leopard cubs were born in a Russian national park last week for the first time in 50 years, according to a statement from the World Wildlife Fund. The species is endangered. Read More » Mayan Discovery: Ancient Monument Reveals Royal Struggle A nearly 1,500-year-old Mayan stone monument, inscribed with a story of an ancient power struggle, has been unearthed in Guatemala. Read More » Meet the Man Who Stalks the World's Biggest Fish In the slow-motion depths of Southeast Asia's Mekong River lurks the critically endangered Mekong giant catfish, one of the world's biggest freshwater fish. When biologist Zeb Hogan first spied this shadowy goliath as an exchange student to Thailand in 1997, he knew he had to learn more about them. Read More » New Footage of Tsunami Dock Found Researchers poring over old videos of seabirds in Oregon discovered footage of a Japanese dock that split from its moorings during the 2011 tsunami and washed up in the United States more than a year later. Read More » NASA Funds 12 Far-Out Space Tech Ideas NASA has granted funding to a dozen imaginative tech concepts, in the hopes that one or more of them will lead to big breakthroughs in space science and exploration. Read More » How 3D Printing Will Transform Chinese Manufacturing (Op-Ed) Melba Kurman , author, and Hod Lipson , Cornell University associate professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering, are co-authors of " Fabricated:  the new world of 3D printing " (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) and leading voices in the field of 3D printing. They contributed this article to LiveScience's Read More » Changing Your Commute Can Drastically Cut Your Costs (Op-Ed) Rob Perks is the transportation advocacy director for the Energy & Transportation Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). This article was adapted from his blog post on NRDC Switchboard. He contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . Read More » Hot Tips to Cool Pets When Summer Temps Soar (Op-Ed) KC Theisen is director of pet care issues in the companion animals program for The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). This article first appeared on the HSUS website. Theisen contributed this article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights . Read More » The Best 25 Companies for Work-Life Balance Though many employees strive to attain a positive work-life balance, achieving it is easier said than done. Read More » Rocket Engine Part Recovered by Amazon CEO Has Apollo 11 History Forty-four years (and three days) after it helped launch the first men to walk on the moon, a huge rocket engine part salvaged from the ocean floor has been positively identified as a historic component of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Read More » How to Survive a Lightning Strike There's a club open to people from all around the world, but you wouldn't want to join: The club is exclusively for people who've survived a lightning strike. Read More » King David-Era Palace Found in Israel, Archaeologists Say Archaeologists say they've uncovered two royal buildings from Israel's biblical past, including a palace suspected to have belonged to King David. Read More » How They Blow: Secrets of Yellowstone's Geysers Despite more than a century of scrutiny, the inner workings of Old Faithful and other Yellowstone National Park geysers remain a mystery. Read More »
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