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How It Works: The NCAA's New Flat-Seamed Baseball

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For more than 100 years, the baseball has remained more or less unchanged. This spring, college players will start their season with a new design. With seams that rise to…

Woolly Mammoth DNA Successfully Spliced Into Elephant Cells

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A group of researchers are getting closer to bringing the extinct woolly mammoth back to life. Geneticist George Church’s lab at Harvard University successfully copied…

Earth Has A Layer No One Knew About

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Our perspective of Earth tends to be very shallow--literally. Everything we experience, from the deepest depths of the ocean to the highest mountain peaks, only skims the…

Don’t Buy Breast Milk Off The Internet

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Despite the formula industry’s best efforts, nothing is quite as good for babies as breast milk. Babies that nurse have been shown to get more education, have greater

How It Works: A Self-Tracking Drone

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The Zano flying camera is a great tool for snapping pictures of yourself—and it’s far more sophisticated than a selfie stick. The $300 quadcopter uses a suite of…

Try On A Virtual Apple Watch With This Augmented Reality App

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Curious how the Apple Watch will look on your wrist? A new app lets you take a virtual model for a spin, thanks to augmented reality.

Cook Rice Differently To Reduce Its Calories

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Rice, the base for cuisines all over the world, contains a lot of starch. That makes it delicious but also high in calories. While that may a boon for people who struggle…

How It Works: Growing A Biological Drone To Explore Mars

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NASA is working on a prototype drone that will be able to survey Mars from a modest altitude. But what if instead of shipping a drone to Mars, we could just ship small…

Alien Spaceships Traveling At Near Light Speeds Will Still Be Visible

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Aliens traveling at near the speed of light won’t go undetected, according to two researchers at Raytheon. Posted on the arXiv, their paper argues that fast-traveling…

Drones Will Look For Stray Dogs In Houston

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Drones, as low-cost flying machines, make great rescue tools. They can look and go places people can’t--or at least can’t go safely--and with infrared cameras, they can…

Cyborg Germ Could Help Detect Leaks In Space Station

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Though we’re a long way from Robocop, cyborgs are real, even if they’re sometimes too small to see. The newest iteration is a bacterial spore with quantum dots on its cell…

Amazon, Eager To Get Drones In The Air, Hates FAA's Regulations

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Last week, the FAA did something strange: it granted Amazon a certificate to test drones, provided Amazon test those drones under a set of incredibly tight restrictions…

NASA Aims To Capture And Bring Back An Asteroid Boulder By 2025

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NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission, the space agency’s initiative to capture a small piece of an asteroid and then bring it into lunar orbit, is moving on to Phase A. That…

Soon A Texas Town Will Run On 100 Percent Renewable Energy

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Renewable energy is having its moment in the sun...and wind, and water. Costa Rica managed to run on 100 percent renewable power for over 75 days. And in Texas, a state…

5 Possible Causes Of The Germanwings Jetliner Crash [Updated]

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Update (3/25/2015, 8:48 p.m. ET): An initial analysis of the cockpit voice recorder suggests one of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit at the time Flight 9525 began

How An Airbus Cockpit Locking Mechanism Works [Video]

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Speculation abounds this morning over what brought down Germanwings Flight 4U 9525, which crashed into the French Alps on Tuesday. The Airbus A320 plane, en route to Düsseldorf from Barcelona, had just reached a cruising altitude of 38,000 feet when it began descending unexpectedly. Eight minutes later, it crashed into a mountainside. Clues are emerging as to what might have caused the crash, and it now seems the accident wasn't an accident at all. At a televised news conference in Paris this morning, chief Marseille prosecutor Brice Robin, who is leading the investigation, painted a…

In The Future, Non-Toxic Antifreeze Could Keep Your Car Cool

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Antifreeze comes in a variety of sports drink-evoking hues, and has a sweet taste and smell that belie the fact that it is deadly to both people and animals. It poisons nearly 90,000 animals and 6,000 people every year. But it doesn't have to be this way. Researchers at the annual meeting of the American Chemical Society announced the development of a new antifreeze that uses the harmless propylene glycol instead of the incredibly toxic ethylene glycol that is currently used. Propylene glycol is already used in some industrial antifreeze functions, but until now researchers hadn't figured…

Indiana Governor Declares State of Emergency For HIV Outbreak

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This morning, Governor Mike Pence of Indiana declared a state of emergency in Scott County, in the southeast of the state, due to what is being called the worst HIV outbreak in the state’s history. The cases were all caused by intravenous drug use, but some health officials fear that a rapid, short-term response will not be enough in the face of a large drug abuse problem. “This is an epidemic,” Governor Pence said in a statement. Since the middle of December, 72 people from southeastern Indiana have been diagnosed with HIV; in a typical year, Scott County, which has most of the cases,…

China's Endangered 'Magic Rabbit' Photographed For The First Time In 20 Years

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In remote northwest China, the cliffs of the Tian Shan mountains provide the last holdout for the Ili pika, a tiny rabbit relative with a shrinking habitat. The Ili pika…

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