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Pictures: Six Pink Animals
The newly identified hot-pink slug is just one of nature's rosy critters—check out a pink hippo, grasshopper, and more.
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Top 10: New Matter, Continental Crash
On our radar today: An exotic new form of matter has been discovered, Europe and America may collide in 220 million years, and...
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Primtime Saturn View and Earth Portrait
Armchair astronomers can see a live web broadcast of Saturn this week and pose for a snapshot of Earth from space next month.
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Summer Lovin' for Arctic Birds
When the sun never sets, the circadian clocks in four species of Arctic birds gohaywire.
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Cheetah Robot Created
A new cheetah-cub robot is just the latest in a mechanical menagerie of animal-inspired robots that climb, fly, swim, and slither.
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Inbreeding Made Gorilla Albino
A recently mapped genome of the famous albino gorilla Snowflake shows he was born to an uncle and a niece, a new study says.
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Women in Space: A Short History
Half of NASA's newest astronaut recruits are women, but that wasn't always the case.
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Cities Compost Food Waste
New York City amps up food recycling, while San Francisco shows the way.
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How Stunning Aurora Video Was Made
Filmmaker Anna Possberg talks about braving the Arctic elements to document the northern lights.
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Balloon Technology Gets a Lift
Google's Loon Project is the latest attempt to use balloons floating in the stratosphere to bring internet access to remote places.
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