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Rapere Is An Anti-Drone Interceptor

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For every brand new quadcopter suddenly flying through the neighborhood, there is sure to be an angry neighbor, eager to remove the buzzing pest from the sky. Rapere is a…

Ice Halos, Cheeky Hamsters, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

Welcome To The Maker-Industrial Revolution

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How General Electric, Local Motors, and an army of DIY inventors are rebuilding American manufacturing…

CES 2015: This Robotic Head and Eye Massager Is As Awkward As It Sounds

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The Dream3 Eye and Head Massager uses compressed air, vibrations, and heat to relieve tension around your head and eyes. It can also play soothing music from its built-in MP3…

Can Virtual Body Swapping Help Fight Racial Prejudice?

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In the wake of massive #BlackLivesMatter demonstrations, the ugly implications of racism in the United States have come to the foreground. Prejudice, whether conscious or…

Taste-Testing 3-D-Printed Candies

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Print your candy and eat it too…

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CES 2015: This Jaguar F-Type Can Tell If You're Too Tired To Drive [Video]

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Soon, your car will know when you’re not fit to drive it. An Australian startup called Seeing Machines has created an in-dashboard camera that uses facial recognition…

CES 2015: Intel's Spider Dress Keeps People Out Of Your Personal Space [Video]

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Intel wants to ensure that your personal space stays just that--personal--so designer Anouk Wipprecht created the Spider Dress for them. The 3-D printed ensemble has robotic…

Has Measles Begun a Triumphant Return?

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Last month, the measles virus showed up in Disneyland and caused a multi-state outbreak. Could this be a sign the virus had made a successful return to the US?

From The Archives: Stealth Flight Comes Into View

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Looking back at the first invisible bombers…

This Airplane Can Be Refueled By Sunshine

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If there are enough clear summer days in a row, Bye Aerospace’s Sun Flyer may just live up to its name and charge in sunlight. Bye just sold twenty of their distinctive…

Evolution Didn't Rob Snakes of Their Limbs - Other Animals Gained Them

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Snake evolution might have happened just the opposite of how scientists thought.

Dawn Spies New Features On Ceres

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You might think we've thoroughly explored the solar system between the Sun and Pluto, but there is still much terrain we have yet to see. The dwarf planet Ceres is the…

Russian Robot Warrior Drives In A Circle In Front Of Putin

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Killer robots are a reliable staple of science fiction, a culmination of humanity’s technological prowess turned against civilization as a cruel, cosmic joke. While this is…

Stick-On Tattoo Measures Blood Sugar Without Needles

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Diabetics often prick their fingers up to eight times a day to check their blood sugar. Researchers have long looked for a solution that provides constant monitoring…

Why Do Sneezes Come In Twos and Threes?

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Sneezes never seem to be lonely. As soon as you expel your first mighty “achoo,” there’s usually another sneeze lurking right behind to follow it up. For some people, there…

Have We Found Alien Life?

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Popular Science. Kenneth Nealson is looking awfully sane for a man who’s basically just told me that he has a colony of aliens incubating in his laboratory. We’re huddled…

Bubble-Propelled Microbots Zoom Around Inside Live Mice

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Last year, researchers fed mice a small drop each of a very special liquid. In the drops were thousands of tube-shaped, microscopic motors.

Behold The Tweel, A Tire That Never Goes Flat

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Fifteen years ago, Michelin set out to build a tire that would never go flat. While the prototypes gained worldwide attention, and the military has been using the technology since 2013, consumers and businesses have been locked out. No longer. In November, Michelin began making its long-awaited airless tire and wheel combo, dubbed the X Tweel, available for use on select commercial vehicles. Unlike pneumatic tires, which cushion rides using a bed of pressurized air, the X Tweel uses a combination of deformable polyurethane spokes, a steel-and-rubber outer rim, and rigid metal hub. The…
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