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Jasmin John, a NOAA scientist (left), and Carla Camacho of Ocean Discovery Institute, stand in the open-air entry way of the Living Lab, March 26, 2018.

Why This NOAA Scientist Is Temporarily Calling City Heights Home

An upcoming science education center in the San Diego neighborhood will also house a scientist-in-residence.

These two views from NASA's Curiosity rover, acquired specifically to measure the amount of dust inside Gale Crater, show that dust has increased over three days from a major Martian dust storm. The left-hand image shows a view of the east-northeast rim of Gale Crater on June 7, 2018 (Sol 2074); the right-hand image shows a view of the same feature on June 10, 2018 (Sol 2077).

Enormous Dust Storm On Mars Threatens The Opportunity Rover

With the sun entirely blocked out by dust, the solar-powered rover has presumably fallen asleep to wait out the storm. NASA scientists say they are "very concerned," but that they hope for the best.

DMG Foods, the Salvation Army's first supermarket, offers discount groceries to nutritional assistance beneficiaries and anyone else who walks through the door.

Salvation Army Opens First-Ever Supermarket, In Baltimore

The longtime religious charity Salvation Army, known for providing clothing and shelter, is trying a new tactic to help low-income residents in Baltimore — offering them access to healthy food.

Rinsing your produce is a good idea, but it won't give you 100 percent protection from bacteria that cause foodborne illness unless you cook it thoroughly. Because we eat lettuce raw, a lot of people got sick in a recent outbreak.

To Rinse Or Not To Rinse: How Washing Some Foods Can Help You Avoid Illness

Rinsing foods doesn't always prevent foodborne illness and can sometimes make the risks worse. Here's what the science says about which foods you should run water over and why.

Shafika Khatun, 30, lives in what's known as the "widows' village" of the Hakimpara camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. There are no men in the cluster of 34 shelters. Most of the women's husbands were killed in the recent violence.

Rohingya Refugees Deeply Skeptical About Repatriation Plan

Bangladesh, which has taken in more than 650,000 refugees, hopes to start sending them back to Myanmar this week — but only if they agree to go.

Janelle Monae performs in 2018 in Los Angeles.

Janelle Monáe Is The 21st Century's Time Traveler

Monáe's work reminds us that we don't need to be tied to one vision of the future: We can create worlds that help us process current hierarchies and others that try to break out of those structures.

In this May 5, 2018 photo, 30-year-old Haitian migrant Marie Toussaint gives a pedicure to a customer at her local beauty salon in downtown Tijuana, Mexico. Toussaint is one of the most successful Haitian migrants in Tijuana. She opened her beauty salon with money she loaned from an uncle in Los Angeles.

Tijuana's 'Little Haiti' Stalled But Migrants Planting Roots

Brightly colored clothes air from lines strung between rudimentary plywood-sided homes. Cinderblocks stacked chest-high form the skeletons of unfinished houses, and a pile of unused rebar lies in the dirt patio.

Open Mike Eagle: Tiny Desk Concert

The indie rap denizen behind one of 2017's most inventive albums came to the nation's capital to represent all the Brick Body Kids who Still Daydream.

Color enhanced Transmission Electron Micrograph (TEM) of E. coli bacteria. Magnification: 132,000 at 8 x 10".

WATCH: Bacteria Invade Antibiotics And Transform Into Superbugs

We know that bacteria can become resistant to antibiotics, but we've never seen it happen. An MIT scientist figured out how to show bacteria surviving antibiotics and invading a giant petri dish.

On Wednesday, a damaged Home Depot truck remains at the scene of a deadly attack in New York City the day before.

Islamic State Claims Responsibility For NYC Vehicle Attack

The weekly edition of the extremist group's Al-Naba newspaper says that the driver in Tuesday's attack is "one of the caliphate's soldiers."

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