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The World's Biggest Aircraft
The Airlander's unique shape provides 40 percent of the vesselâs aerodynamic lift (the rest comes from helium)âenough to keep 10 tons of cargo and a full crew aloft for…
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Decipher Your Car's 'Check Engine' Light Via Bluetooth
Even if you don't know your dipstick from your stick shift, this device can help you troubleshoot some of your car problems before you go to the mechanic.
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The Science And Engineering Of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Balloons
They're cute and fat and take real engineering to get up into the air. I'm talking about the iconic balloons in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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What Social Psychology Says About Darren Wilson And Michael Brown
This week, a grand jury elected not to indict a white police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teenager.
Transcripts show officer Darren Wilson testifying that even though Michael Brown was unarmed, killing him was justified because his punching fists, large body, and state of mind presented a mortal threat.
"When I grabbed him," Wilson told the grand jury, "the only way I can describe it is that I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan." He says that after he first shot Brown, Brown's face was, "like a demon, that's how angry he looked." After shooting Brown several…
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Underwater Robot Maps Polar Ice In 3-D
Robots are getting better all the time. They can mix drinks, explore other planets and even adapt to new situations. And they're not done yet. In a new paper published this…
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Iconic Cold War Spyplane May Get A Drone Makeover
Based at times in Area 51, the U-2 spyplane tested the very limits of human endurance and Cold War technology when it first flew in 1955. Pilots would fly the high-altitude…
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155 Years Later, Darwin's Manuscripts Are Going Digital
Charles Darwin may be a household name now, but we haven’t always had the theory of natural selection. On November 24, 1859, he published On the Origin of Species as a…
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DNA Sequencing Could Make Turkeys Happier And Tastier
It's no accident that turkeys have more than doubled in size over the past 80 years—bigger is better, at least when it comes to the Thanksgiving table. But decades of…
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Sony's Next Smartwatch Might Be Made Entirely From E-Paper
Sony's reportedly taking aim at a new smartwatch that's constructed entirely out of electronic paper, letting it change its whole appearance.
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How To Keep Your Giraffe Warm
It's getting cold out there. Are you keeping your giraffes warm?
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Deep-Sea Dwellers Make A Natural Antibiotic
On hot vents deep underneath the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, there lives something unusual: a gene that fights bacteria. The gene belongs to a microscopic organism,…
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How To Celebrate Thanksgiving On The International Space Station
Hurtling around the Earth at nearly five miles per second, some 205 miles above where you might be sitting right now, crewmembers aboard the International Space Station…
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Benjamin Franklin Once Electrocuted Some Turkeys For Science
Benjamin Franklin's famous kite-flying experiment, conducted in 1752, was not his first study with electricity. Before that, he tested electric shocks on some farmyard…
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The First Intuitive Address Book
A person’s memory isn’t alphabetical, yet that’s how every phone organizes contacts. Humin adds context to entries, so you can search the app for a person the same way you…
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DARPA FLASH
DARPA FLASH allows for realtime communication for firefighters, crucial for battling fires and search-and-rescue missions. Current methods require plugging in GPS…
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A Genetic Fog Machine That Tags Criminals
For years, “security smoke” has foiled robberies by flooding the scene with a dense vapor, provoking thieves to run. The strategy saves valuables but doesn’t catch bad…
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Simple Smartphone Add-On Targets Preventable Blindness
Eye exams can be time-consuming and require bulky equipment, but the Peek device could change that by using smartphones to do the heavy lifting.
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The Month In Plagues: Chagas In The US, Polio Eradication In Nigeria, And More
Your monthly roundup of infestations, contagions, and controls from around the web, including the Ebola outbreak, Chagas disease in the US, and more.
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The 11 Most Important Cats Of Science
[Special thanks to materials scientist Joe Spalenka for letting us use his photoshopped image of Watson And Crick Plus Chloe The Cat.]…
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