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Your Smartphone Could Replace Your Driver's License Someday Soon
Iowa is planning to debut the U.S.'s first smartphone app to store (and display) your driver's license, next year.
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iRobot Now Sells A Roomba For Hackers
iRobot, maker of the classic Roomba vacuuming bot, is now offering a hackable robotics platform aimed at students.
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Spidey Sensor: Spider Leg Organs Inspire a New Sound Detector
Spiders can detect sound and movement using slits in their legs, and scientists devised a new sensor that works in a similar way.
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Found: A Weird New Pluripotent Cell Type
This newly discovered type of pluripotent cell reveals there's much more to learn about these powerful little cells.
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NASA's Putting a Space Suit Through A CT Scan
CT scans have been used to investigate numerous scientific conundrums over the years, from medical mysteries to mummy murders. They're also being used to examine mechanical…
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Rosetta Offers New Insight Into Where Water On Earth Came From
Four and a half billion years ago, the Sun and Earth were just being born out of a giant explosion, and the solar system was HOT. All that heat likely boiled away the water…
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Why We Should All Eat Ugly Fruits And Veggies
The world wastes a lot of food every year. Like, 1.4 billion tons of food.
According to the United Nations, 20 to 40 percent of fresh produce gets thrown away by farmers…
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Watch Jetman Fly In Formation Over Dubai In 4K Video
Dubai is an unreal city, where the buildings are gigantic, the police drive lamborghinis, and drones rescue window washers. And, very rarely, home to aerial acrobatics from…
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Could Drugs Heal A Broken Heart?
Love and heartache have always been inexorably tied. Recall the paranoid, lust-dizzy characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream or the tortured, memory-deprived lovers in…
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Is There A Scientifically Valid Way To Interrogate People?
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Injured NFL Players Inject Unproven Stem Cell Treatments
An injured knee can cost a pro football player millions of dollars, or even an entire career. MIT Technology Review reports that, in an effort to regrow cartilage and heal…
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Video: Chasing After Mario On A Cylindrical Screen
At any given time, NYC Resistor might be filled with members sewing wearables, soldering LEDs, and perhaps even carving pumpkins. Of all the projects to come out of the…
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The Long March Goes On
The Long March/Changzheng 5 (LM-5) can carry up to 25 tons into orbit, for Chinese space stations, state of the art spy satellites and robot space shuttles.
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Proof Of Japan's Kamikaze Typhoons Found In Ancient Rocks
A massive storm is currently battering northern California just after another storm bombed the United Kingdom. These weather events are huge news for the people living…
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With Rocket Blown Up, Orbital Sciences Hitches A Ride To Space
In October, private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences suffered a major setback when its Antares rocket exploded shortly after launching from Wallops Flight Facility in…
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Looking Back At The First 40 Years Of The Automobile
Seventy-five years ago, in December 1939, Popular Science looked back on the then-40-year history of the automobile.
Today when we think about automotive innovation, we…
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Diabetic Charts A Year's Worth Of His Health Data
In 2012, Doug Kanter—diabetic since age 12—visualized his disease. He wrote software to compare his blood sugar with his activity and food. He says the feedback made for the…
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Hunting for Higgs
Get ready to do some work in particle physics... at home.
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The Volcanic Eruption In Cabo Verde, In Pictures
doesn't make headlines all that often. An archipelago of 10 islands off the coast of Africa, it gained independence from Portugal in 1975, and has been an independent…
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