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Someone strapped a 360-degree camera to a rocket

What an owl would see if he were an astronaut.

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<p>The Weird! Signal from Ross 128 as detected in May 2017 (enclosed in the red frame).</p>

Weird signals from nearby star probably weren't from there

The news from the star Ross 128, some 11 light-years away, turns out to be no news at all. Sorry, alien hunters, the signal was coming from closer to home.

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<p>This enhanced-color panorama shows Perseverance Valley and the rover's tracks to the right.</p>

Get lost in this Mars rover 'Perseverance Valley' panorama

Mars stretches out for miles in a gorgeous wide-open view from NASA's Mars Opportunity rover as it surveys the Red Planet.

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<p>Delta passengers leaving from Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) can now scan their fingerprints to board a plane.&nbsp;</p>

Delta's fingerprint scanner IDs flyers sans boarding pass

Forgot your boarding pass? No problem. Use Delta's fingerprint scanner instead.

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Baobab's "smart" animation gets into your head

Virtual-reality studio Baobab knows how to trick your brain to pull you into its stories.

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Robot cop that fell in fountain insists it's not dead

Commentary: The K5 robot found floating facedown in a DC fountain insists he's OK. Oh, and he has a Twitter account now.

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<p>This comes from a series of Hubble images showing the moon Phobos in orbit around Mars.</p>

Tiny moon Phobos zips by Mars in fun Hubble time-lapse

Itsy-bitsy moon oddity Phobos photobombed some Hubble images of Mars, so NASA turned the view into a delightful time-lapse video.

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<p>With a USB hub, you can plug several&nbsp;Intel Movidius Neural Compute Sticks into your laptop.</p>

Intel lets you stick an AI brain into your USB port

The $80 Movidius Neural Compute Stick is tuned for tinkerers and engineers who want to give neural network technology a whirl.

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Chow-obsessed AI suggests recipes to match food photos

MIT researchers unleash a hungry artificial intelligence system that offers up recipes to match images of everything from dessert to main dishes.

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Bill Nye can't wait for more old people to die

Commentary: The Science Guy says in an interview that climate change deniers skew older, so climate science can only progress when they "age out."

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Science + music = perfect formula at geeky Bluedot festival

The delightful Bluedot festival, which combines music and science beneath a giant radio telescope, celebrates positivity and possibility.

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Got a stupid question for an astronaut? These are stupider

Houston, we have a hashtag: #StupidQuestionsForAstronauts shows that Twitter jokesters can truly rocket. And then a real astronaut decides to help out.

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