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Medical Inhalers To Track Where You Are When You Puff

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Tracking miles run and calories eaten was just the beginning. An inhaler made by Propeller Health, used for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, records the…

World First: Man Controls Two Prosthetic Arms With His Mind

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Until recently, losing both arms in an accident would probably have meant the end of a patient's two-fisted grip. Not so for Leslie Baugh, the first shoulder-level double…

Was The Sony Hack Actually An Act Of Cyberwar?

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It is hard to concisely describe how strange our cyberpunk present is. Yesterday Sony announced it wouldn’t be releasing “The Interview,” a rather raunchy film that…

Driving The 2016 Toyota Mirai Is Remarkably Unremarkable (And That’s A Good Thing)

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Toyota's hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle has an easy, comfortable driving demeanor that belies its amazing complexity underneath.

Space Shots: The Universe's Best Images

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Photos, visualizations, and other pictures of outer space, updated almost daily by the editors of Popular Science

This Lightweight Snowblower Breaks Ice, Not Your Back

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Normally, homeowners must choose between two types of snowblowers: a light, maneuverable single-stage model or a large, powerful two-stage one. The 922EXD combines the best…

NASA Envisions A Cloud City Above Hellish Surface Of Venus

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The planet Venus, named for the Roman goddess of Love, certainly wouldn’t be a very loving place to live. On the surface, Venus hosts scorching temperatures of more than…

Will Silicon Valley Transform Farming?

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At this point, Silicon Valley’s promise to Change the World or Make the World a Better Place or any other iteration is more of a punch line than a catchphrase, especially…

Taste-Testing 3-D-Printed Candies

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Print your candy and eat it too…

Found: The World's Newest Deepest-Dwelling Fish

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All hail the world's deepest dwelling fish. This mysterious, wispy creature was recently spotted in the darkness of the Mariana Trench by a team of researchers. Living at…

Department Of Defense Tests A Bullet That Can Steer

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Since the first gun appeared on a battlefield, bullets have dealt death in straight lines. As the shortest distance between two points, lines are great, but they mean…

Meet South America's Infamous Electric Eel

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Meet the electric eel, the only other animal that knows how it feels to walk across a carpet and zap somebody you don't like.

Lawsuit About Mayonnaise Dropped

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In the old days, the battle between condiments was fought by Hellmann’s Mayonnaise and Miracle Whip. That was mostly a debate about taste rather than substance. Nowadays,…

How Microsoft's Machine Learning Is Breaking The Global Language Barrier

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Earlier this week, roughly 50,000 Skype users woke up to a new way of communicating over the Web-based phone- and video-calling platform, a feature that could’ve been pulled…

Eeek! A Writhing Robot Snake

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This slithering, contortionist robot is named the “Series II - X125 system.” The robot snake-arm is over 7 feet long, and can carry over 13 pounds. It has a flexible tip,…

Howling Heat Wolves, Sex Weevils, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

The Coolest-Looking New Species Of 2014

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's favorite new species discovered in 2014.

2014: Epitomizing Our Dysfunctional Relationship With Germs

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Looking back at 2014 reveals it has been an annus horribilis for our relationship with germs.

Fossilized In Brazil: The Impact From Dinosaur Urine On Sand

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Last week, researchers from Brazil published an article in the Journal of South American Earth Sciences updating the world on the state of dinosaur trace fossils in Brazil.

Mathematician Suggests New Way Get To Mars On A Budget

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A mathematician says he's made the calculations to use ballistic capture to bring spacecraft to Mars more cheaply and safely than ever before.
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