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Culture Wars Rage Within Science Fiction Fandom

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The Hugo Awards are one of the most prestigious prizes in science fiction and fantasy literature. They are career-defining honors for those authors skilled and lucky enough…

Discovering Supernovae

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Citizen scientists discover new supernovae at Zooniverse.org.

Moon Maps, Doughnuts In Space, And Other Amazing Images Of The Week

Watch This Autonomous Drone Eat Fuel In The Sky

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We are so far in the future of aircraft that a stealthy autonomous flying wing simply existing is just sort of a given. The U.S. Navy’s X-47B is a test platform, designed…

Bomb Squad Robot Delivers Pizza, Saves A Man's Life

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Sometimes, a kind hand holding out a pizza is enough, even if that hand is attached to the mechanical arm of a bomb squad robot. On Monday, California Highway Patrol…

Free-Floating Cancer Cells Are Infecting Clams On The East Coast

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Clams are threatened by predators who love seeing them served up on a plate drenched in butter and garlic, nestled in folds of fresh pasta--or splattered on a dock, if you…

Ask Us Anything: Why Don’t Electric Eels Electrocute Themselves?

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The electric eel is a variety of freshwater fish with specialized organs that discharge electricity. Many species use these jolts to sense their surroundings or communicate (as in courtship). A few species, including electric eels, electric rays, and electric catfish, can emit enough juice to stun other fish, yet they never seem to shock themselves. Body size may be key: An electric eel can grow to eight feet long and weigh as much as 50 pounds, making it orders of magnitude bigger than its victims. The charge it delivers--up to 650 volts--would cause much less damage to the eel…

A Birder’s Guide To The Future [Infographic]

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Climate models predict a much warmer world in 60 years, with flash storms and extended droughts. But they don’t take into account changes to the land, like urban…

South Korea Unveils Fast Tiltrotor Drone Prototype

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As broadcast by the Republic of Korea’s Arirang television network last night, a brand-new Korean tiltrotor drone took to the skies for the first time. The TR-60 can fly…

FDA May Start Regulating Homeopathy

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Homeopathy--an alternative theory of medicine founded on the notion that “like cures like”--has so far gotten a free pass in the U.S. Although studies suggest homeopathic…

Learning About Health On Social Media Makes Risks Seem Riskier

Popping The Cork On 170-Year-Old Shipwrecked Champagne

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Losing a shipment of over 160 bottles champagne in the Baltic Sea must have been a huge blow to European importers back in the early 1800's. But their loss is definitely…

'Star Talk': A Sneak Peek At Neil deGrasse Tyson's New Late Night Show

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It's not often that I'm waiting to order a drink at the bar next to Bill Nye. But on the rare occasion that this does happen, as it did this past Thursday evening, I knew…

Here’s How Weed Affects Your Body

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Our obsession with marijuana’s mystifying powers goes back a long time; though its first documented use was in 2727 BC, there’s some indication that our ancestors…

New Smart Sensor Sniffs Out Decaying Meat Before You Can

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Foul smells are generally good indications of food gone bad, and now MIT chemists have developed a new sensor that does all that nasty smelling work for you. The portable…

A Biotech Startup Wants To Replace Your Eyeballs With Synthetic Ones

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Our eyes are such elegant, complex, specialized organs that their existence seems almost hard to believe--Darwin himself called their evolution “absurd.” But that doesn’t…

Supervoid May Explain Gargantuan Cold Spot Lurking In Distant Universe

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If you’re wondering what the biggest structure in the universe is, astronomers have said it’s nothing, really. That’s not false modesty on their part--astronomers now have…

Marine V-22 Osprey Shoots Kamikaze Drones Out Its Backside

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Whatever comes out the back-end of the V-22 Osprey is a guaranteed load of unpleasantness, whether it’s a troop of Marines or a Jeep-like Phantom Badger. As a tiltrotor,…

Teach Your Fish How To Walk

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Four hundred million years ago, our ancestors crawled out of the sea. Last year, biologist Emily Standen imitated the ancient feat by raising pet store fish on land. A…

How It Works: Death By Black Hole

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As you fall feet first across an event horizon—the point where nothing can escape the black hole’s gravitational pull—you don’t feel anything change. But eventually,…
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