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Where Do Recycled Electronics Go?

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Starting in 2015, the 20 million residents of New York State will be forbidden to throw away electronics. The statewide ban requires residents to dispose of their unwanted TVs, printers and MP3 players at designated stores and drop-off locations to be recycled, or pay a $100 fine if these items are left curbside for sanitation workers. To some, dragging their huge, non-functional TV down the snowy New York City streets may sound like a hassle. But to others, it means that a little less of the millions of tons of e-waste thrown away each year doesn’t end up in landfills, where they are…

Behind The Scenes Of That Awesome Portal Trick Shot Video

Promising Results For Experimental Ebola Vaccine

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A study of an experimental vaccine against Ebola has shown promising results in volunteers in Uganda.

In Nasty Weather, High-Tech Sensors Get The Lights Back On Faster

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It's the middle of winter and a storm is bearing down on your cozy, light-filled home. If you're safe and warm inside, there's no problem ... until the power goes out. Now…

FDA Plans To Lift Lifetime Ban On Gay Men Donating Blood

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to lift a ban on men who have had sex with men from donating blood, the agency announced today.

This Ski Gear Adapts— So You Don’t Have To

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Skiing isn’t a static sport: On any given day, weather can whip from clear and sunny to stormy and overcast, and skiers might toggle between front-country groomers and…

Chinese Laser Zaps Space, for World Peace

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China fires off a giant laser into space, but all in the name of international scientific cooperation.

Earth's Most Remote Locations Revealed In 'Lonely Planet' Cartogram

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Cartograms—maps distorted so that instead of land area, they portray another quantity such as population or electoral-college votes—have existed since the early 1900s. Benjamin Hennig has refined the technique, and he made this cartogram to show the planet’s most remote places. He calculated the travel time from each spot on Earth to the nearest major city, then grew or shrunk the land at those points accordingly. The most remote spots appear biggest, while the densely settled areas, such as Europe, appear smallest. See all 15 of our favorite recent data visualizations here. This article

NASA Is 3-D Printing Tools In Space Like Crazy

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Astronauts on the ISS began printing objects on a specially-designed 3-D printer last month. They started small; the first object printed was a component of the printer…

Body Cameras On Cops: Do They Work?

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The mere presence or absence of a camera does not deter violent behavior. We know this through decades of research on CCTV demonstrating that video monitoring has little to…

A Sticky Sensor That Attaches To Internal Organs

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A team of researchers based at several Japanese universities made prototype sticky sensors that they've now tested on the still-beating hearts of living rats.

Newly Identified Bourbon Virus Has Nothing To Do With Alcohol

Genetically Modified Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire

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Roasting chestnuts on an open fire is supposed to be one of the quintessential Christmas experiences. But I'd never tasted nor smelled a roasted chestnut until I got into…

9 Space Pictures That Look Like Christmas

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Is that the face of jolly old St. Nick, or a million-mile-wide nebula? The gas and dust of the cosmos often align into very familiar scenes from Earth. We've gathered nine…

Popcorn Time

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When file-sharing and streaming site Popcorn Time debuted earlier this year, the media dubbed it Netflix for Pirates. That’s fair: It exists in a legal gray area, but…

One Central Park, Sydney

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The 381-foot-tall One Central Park in Sydney, Australia, incorporates two unique technologies: A hydroponic garden made up of 383 species that hugs the building’s exterior,…

Aquion Energy AHI Technology

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Stationary batteries can store surplus wind and solar energy, turning a highly variable power source into a steady flow of electrons. But most are made from highly toxic or…

Find A Sunset Spectacle On Almost Any New York City Street

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Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson popularized the phenomenon of Manhattanhenge a decade ago, and now many New Yorkers stand in Manhattan’s cross streets twice a year to…

Shimano XTR Di2 M9050

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By mating electronic shifting with electronic suspension, Shimano and Fox created the first integrated, programmable mountain bike. Riders decide how they like to bike in…

Berlin's Culture Shines In Heat Map Of Citygoer Activities

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In a project he calls Stadtbilder—which translates to “city images”—Moritz Stefaner mapped the collective life of a city’s inhabitants, rather than its buildings or land. The…
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