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Senate Fails To Curtail NSA Monitoring Of Citizens

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With the USA Freedom Act shot down by the Senate, the National Security Agency can continue collecting bulk phone data about Americans.


Watch Buffalo's Lake-Effect Storm, In Thirty Seconds

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A massive lake effect snowstorm rolled over northwest New York state from Lake Erie Tuesday, dumping more than five feet of snow in some places and leaving at least four…

Lunar Mission Wants To Bury Your Hair On The Moon

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Most everyone supports efforts into space exploration, but there’s always one aspect of space travel that can be a deal breaker: the price tag. Thanks to gravity and our…

Philae Discovers Organic Molecules On A Comet

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After 10 years of chasing down Comet 67P—and then landing on it—a robotic space mission has returned a tantalizing discovery: the rubber ducky-shaped rock is home to

Wireless And Wearable Sensors To Track Your Basketball Skills

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ShotTracker, a combination of wireless sensors and smartphone apps, can help players improve their basketball game and coaches track their players' progress.

Non-Profit Wants To Make Encrypting Web Traffic Easy And Free

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The vast majority of web traffic is unsecured, but a non-profit project called Let's Encrypt wants to change that by making encryption simple and free.

Salt Prices Skyrocket As Temperatures Plummet

Blame This Arctic Superstorm For Brutal U.S. Winter Weather

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Got a lot of snow last week—or yesterday? You can blame this guy, above. The satellite image, taken November 8, shows a superstorm over the Bering Sea. The storm was one…

Radiation-Proof Suits, Moon Aspirations, And The First Drive-Thru Banks

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Going through the archives of Popular Science is like exploring old family photos. You laugh, you cry, you reminisce about crazy old Uncle Bob...okay maybe not. But, it's…

These Adaptable, Self-Replicating Robots Surely Won't Tear The World Apart ... Right?

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Watching the University of Oslo’s three-limbed robot squirm across the floor like a dismembered starfish brings to mind shudder-inducing flashbacks of Stargate SG-1. More…

How Supercomputing Is Cracking The Mysteries Of Human Origins

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A Texas supercomputer capable of 9.6 quadrillion operations per second has solved a thorny problem in genetics, by looking at the bones of a young boy who died 24,000 years

TGI Friday’s In-Restaurant Drone Hovers Mistletoe Over Customers' Heads

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Circling overhead, the drone finds its prey seated below. The robot is looking not for specific identifying characteristics of people, but rather suspect behaviors. In the…

How Women's Bra Sizes Weirdly Correlate To Their Spending Habits

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If you want to make billions in 2014, you have to understand big data. Chinese web sales giant Alibaba understands this concept better than most, as it utilizes…

BMW's i8 Is Where Every Supercar Manufacturer Needs to Go

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It wasn't that long ago that every major sports car manufacturer scoffed at the idea of inserting hybrid-electric powertrains into their track-tuned road-rockets. They

The First Home Iris Scanner

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Myris, a sleek handheld iris scanner, brings biometric security to home computers. The device plugs into a USB port and takes a split-second video of both eyes, scanning…

Worm Living In Human Brain Gets Its Genome Mapped

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For many years, a Chinese man in the U.K. experienced a range of debilitating neurological symptoms with no understood origin--including headaches, memory loss, and…

Which Came First, The Chicken Or The Egg? [Video]

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Welcome to our newest video series, called Ask Us Anything! And we really mean it. In each video, we'll answer the odd-ball, amusing, or just plain confounding questions you

Scale A Glass Wall With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive On Your Hands

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Geckos, when not shilling for insurance companies, are most known for their climbing abilities that let them scale walls effortlessly. Thanks to their biology, geckos have…

Beautiful Map Reveals The Evolution Of The Protoplanet Vesta

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More than a million miles away from Earth, Vesta sits cold and dark in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Depending on what naming scheme you use, Vesta is either

NASA's (Un)Censored Moonwalkers

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The astronauts weren't thrilled, but public affairs ensured the public would read every word spoken on the Moon.

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