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Adorable bird dons tiny goggles to fly through lasers

Obi the parrotlet is helping Stanford researchers study what happens to the air after a bird has flown through it.

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Whose mummified knees are these? Queen Nefertari's, probably

Bone fragments thought to have belonged to the famous ancient Egyptian queen get the royal scientific treatment. You could say the findings have legs.

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Meet Zo, Microsoft's newest AI chatbot

The tech giant introduces another AI chatbot, Zo.ai, but is limiting the topics it's able to address.

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<p>At the fifth annual Breakthrough Prize 2017, actor Vin Diesel and Facebook CEO award a Life Sciences prize to Dr. Stephen Elledge who works on how DNA regulates, repairs and re-codes itself. He hopes to his research leads to a cure for all diseases.</p>

Tech heavy hitters, celebrities bet science can fend off Trump

Mark Zuckerberg joins other big names in Silicon Valley and Hollywood to hand out $25 million for advances in tech and science at the Breakthrough Prize ceremony.

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<p>An astronaut's eyeball before long-duration spaceflight (left) and after (right).</p>

Fluid that protects your brain could blind astronauts

Research has identified a new cause behind vision problems experienced by astronauts.

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<p>A patient interacts with a virtual limb in an augmented reality environment.</p>

The animated body parts helping cure phantom limb pain

How do you deal with pain in a limb that isn't actually there? By recreating it in augmented reality.

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Nuggets from 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' press event

The "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" global press conference reveals new tidbits about the movie without giving away the good stuff.

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<p>Veggie project engineer Charles Spern relays messages from the Kennedy Space Centerto Shane Kimbrough to assist with the harvest.</p>

Space lettuce is now officially on the ISS menu

Astronaut Shane Kimbrough has eaten the first of four space lettuce harvests after the leaf vegetable was proven safe in 2015.

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<p>DigitalGlobe's WorldView-4 satellite's first image, taken November 26, shows Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo.</p>

New satellite photos will detail your world view

DigitalGlobe's new satellite just sent down its first image of our planet. Your Google Maps view of the world is about to get better.

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<p>The truth about the world is somber.</p>

Stephen Hawking says technology will devastate the middle class

Commentary: The famous physicist pleads for humans to work together, as this is "the most dangerous time for our planet."

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<p>Astronauts aboard the International Space Station will have to wait for a resupply.</p>

Russian spacecraft launch ends in failure and a fireball

Russia lost transmission with a Soyuz rocket set to take 2.5 tons of supplies to the International Space Station.

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Two scientists use a massive, illuminated periodic table of elements as they discuss the element holmium in the Lawrence Hall of Science at the University of California, Berkeley. (Photo by © Ted Streshinsky/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

The periodic table just got a little (super)heavier

Everyone's favorite list of all the things that make up everything has just received four new additions.

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