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Double Olympic gold medalist Matt Weston refuses to keep his medals locked away, carrying them in a hand-knitted pouch from diver Tom Daley so strangers can hold them and feel inspired. His fiancée thinks he's being reckless, but Weston believes touching Olympic gold might change someone's life.
After a construction accident left Robert Woo paralyzed from the chest down, he became the world's most influential exoskeleton test pilot. For 15 years, his feedback has helped thousands of people with paralysis walk again.
Scientists in Italy discovered that violinists wearing lightweight robotic exoskeletons actually improved their timing and coordination with fellow musicians. The technology could soon help stroke patients and others relearn movement through therapist-guided rehabilitation.
A collapsed church floor in the Netherlands has revealed a skeleton that could belong to the real D'Artagnan, the legendary musketeer who inspired "The Three Musketeers." DNA testing is underway to confirm if the remains match his descendants.
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Workers repairing a church floor in the Netherlands discovered a skeleton that could belong to the real D'Artagnan, the legendary French musketeer who inspired Alexandre Dumas' famous novel. DNA testing is underway to confirm if this 350-year-old mystery has finally been solved.
Your email is the skeleton key to your entire digital life, and criminals know it. Three simple security steps can protect everything you own online in less than 20 minutes.
Scientists discovered a perfectly preserved mammal fossil the size of a fingernail in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, offering a rare glimpse into life 75 million years ago. The tiny skeleton survived alongside dinosaurs and could help explain how mammals adapted to extreme climate change.
Hundreds of journalists are returning to work after a federal judge ruled Voice of America must be fully restored. The government-run news service, which broadcasts to 362 million people worldwide, had been operating with only a skeleton crew.
Scientists discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a bird-like dinosaur in Argentina that's rewriting how we understand evolution. The fossil reveals these creatures shrank before developing their specialized features, solving a puzzle that stumped researchers for decades.
A tiny four-person team in Manitoba is 3D printing a massive 9-metre marine dinosaur that sat in storage for 40 years. They're saving $120,000 by doing it themselves with five printers running nonstop for months.
Advanced scanning technology has reconstructed the face of "Little Foot," one of the most complete human ancestor skeletons ever found. The 90% intact fossil is revealing surprising connections across early human populations in Africa.
Heavy storms in Portugal revealed two nearly complete fossilized whale skeletons from 10 million years ago, among the most intact specimens ever found in Europe. The ancient whales could unlock secrets about how these ocean giants evolved.
A chicken-sized dinosaur skeleton from Argentina proves small dinosaurs stayed small on purpose, not by shrinking over time. The discovery flips decades of thinking about how these ancient creatures evolved.
After five years of painstaking digital work, researchers have reconstructed the face of "Little Foot," the most complete early human ancestor skeleton ever found. The breakthrough offers a stunning window into what our ancient relatives looked like millions of years ago.
Archaeologists in central Italy opened a perfectly preserved Etruscan tomb sealed for 2,600 years, finding over 100 artifacts and four skeletons that reveal how this mysterious civilization lived before Rome. The rare untouched discovery offers unprecedented insights into ancient burial practices and beliefs.
Scientists discovered a remarkably preserved skeleton of one of the world's smallest dinosaurs in Argentina's Patagonia region. The crow-sized creature challenges our view of the "age of giants" and reveals incredible biodiversity from 95 million years ago.
Scientists just pulled off one of Victoria's most complicated fossil extractions, recovering a remarkably rare 21-million-year-old whale skeleton that could unlock secrets about how whales evolved. The discovery at Ocean Grove beach is one of very few windows into a crucial but mysterious chapter in Earth's history.
A complete skeleton of a tiny dinosaur from Argentina is overturning everything scientists thought they knew about how these mysterious creatures evolved and spread across ancient Earth. The discovery reveals these ant-eating dinosaurs didn't shrink over time but stayed small for millions of years across multiple continents.
Scientists discovered a nearly complete skeleton of a tiny bird-like dinosaur in Argentina that fills a decades-long gap in understanding how these mysterious creatures evolved. The "missing link" fossil proves these dinosaurs were tiny long before they developed their famous stubby arms and ant-eating adaptations.
Chae Soo-min, 29, stood to deliver a live weather forecast on Korean national television wearing a medical exoskeleton robot. Her groundbreaking appearance on International Day of Persons with Disabilities shows how robotics can open careers once thought impossible.
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