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Humans will need to communicate with a robot the same way they communicate with one another. This brings us a little closer to that future.

Oh, @nasa is going to snap that perfect picture of the cosmos, all right. Even if it means cutting a giant hole in a 747 to get it. 

Manila has 36,000 people per square mile, making it one of the most densely populated cities in the world. The density is even higher in the 500 slums that line the city’s rivers, railroad tracks, and garbage dumps, where you can find more than 200,000 people per square mile.

The lightning tracker on one of NOAA’s weather satellites is an absolute pleasure to watch. 

KILL IT WITH FIRE. Also, preserve and celebrate it for its remarkably superior form.

80 feet tall. 120 feet wide. Big enough to hold a Boeing 737. This is the biggest wind tunnel in the world.

As the past 30 years of press history shows, everything changes. Great journalism helps us understand how and why things change, and we need that now more than ever.

The future of journalism is at stake. Take a look inside The New York Times' biggest-ever strategy shift. 

Every one of these photos was taken by a female photographer. Daniella Zalcman has been a photographer for 10 years, and she’s long since lost count of how many times she’s heard a photo editor explain how he’d hire women if he knew where to find them. So she’s showing them. In no uncertain terms.

Being a bomb hunter requires pin-sharp concentration and tireless attention. The teams start by scanning an area with metal detectors, some of them fitted with ground-penetrating radar. Workers carefully clear brush and vegetation, and listen for the tell-tale beep that indicates a potential bomb. Anything suspicious is fenced off wth red stakes.

You can do lots of things in 10 seconds. Update your Twitter status. Tie your shoes. Demolish an entire neighborhood.

The marches drew 3.3 million people to protests on all seven continents. For the women shooting it, it was a chance to make history, but also record it.