No runway is more limiting for a plane than an aircraft carrier deck. Getting to full speed and then taking off requires careful design, skilled pilots, and often a little…
An Electromagnetic Catapult For Hurling Planes Into The Air
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Oil Trucks In Canada Will Soon Drive Themselves
If they ever make a show about oil sand truckers, the cast is going to be derided for their forced, mechanical acting. Because they’re robots. Right now in Alberta, Canada’s…
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Even Tiny Bumps To Your Brain Can Cause Trauma Over Time
Your brain is an extremely sensitive organ—little bumps that may cause temporary injuries elsewhere on the body can have lasting damage in the brain. Researchers have been…
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Injectable, Flexible Mesh Picks Up Activity In Mouse Brains
Ever since scientists figured out that the brain communicates via electricity, they've been trying to understand it--and manipulate it. Now a team led by researchers from…
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Coming Soon: 7 Continents Worth Of Household Bugs And Microbes
I was traveling over the past few weeks, including a stop in San Francisco where I had the pleasure of doing a book talk for an engaged—and perhaps tipsy—audience at the California Academy of Science’s NightLife party. Before the event, I was even luckier to get a couple of behind-the-scenes tours. One was with Michelle Trautwein, an assistant curator in entomology at the Academy.Our first stop was Trautwein’s office, where the collection of insects in the above photo caught my eye. It turned out that these were all found in a single home in Raleigh, North Carolina, when Trautwein—then at the…
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How Filthy Is Your Neighborhood? This Map Can Tell You
Do you know how many tiny particles are in the air you breathe? What about the amount of lead paint in your neighborhood? Or if you live close to a toxic dump site? Now, a…
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Samsung's New Smart Mirror Displays Want to Dress You Up
If you’ve been longing for 22nd century chic in a 21st century world, Samsung has read your mind and debuted their new Transparent and Mirror OLED displays. This technology…
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McLaren 650S Aims for Efficiency
Engineers worked to make the McLaren 650S more fuel efficient and with lower emissions to meet the demands of the future.
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Astronauts Could Harvest Moon Water With Space Distilleries
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Computer Brain Surgery Simulation Is Genuinely Gelatinous
When you look at a diagram or model of the brain, everything looks to be in its place. Long-term memories are stored in the prefrontal cortex, the cerebellum takes care of…
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New Solar Storm Forecasting Technique Breaks The 24-Hour Warning Barrier For Earth
Solar storms start their lives as violent explosions from the sun’s surface. They’re made up of energetic charged particles wrapped in a complex magnetic cloud. As they erupt…
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A Woman With Transplanted Ovarian Tissue Gives Birth To Baby
A woman in Belgium thought to be infertile has become the first to give birth after receiving a transplant of her own ovarian tissue, according to an article published…
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This Computer Runs On Water Droplets And Magnets
As anyone who has experienced the devastation of spilling a glass of water on their laptop knows, H2O and computers don't mix. Almost equally as bad? Magnets. Both are…
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This Robot Could Take Sick Kids To The Zoo
An open-source project by a group called Robots for Good could soon let sick children, stuck in hospital rooms, experience virtual adventures from their beds.The program…
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Oculus Reveals A Virtual Reality Headset For Everyone
“I am going to make the consumer version the best HMD [head-mounted display] that the world has ever seen, and it is better to make sure I can do that than to try and hold to a particular deadline,” Oculus founder Palmer Luckey wrote three years ago, in a Reddit AMA, just after his virtual reality company's headset, Oculus Rift, received more than $2.4 million in crowd-sourced funding on Kickstarter.Today, June 11, 2015, Oculus announced that headset, the first consumer version of the Oculus Rift.The VR headset, available in "early 2016," is heavily aimed at gamers and developers. Oculus…
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Watch A Drone Get Soaked By A Firefighter
Rescue robots can be a great aid to firefighters, but they should probably be invited first. An almost 14 minute long video uploaded to YouTube by John Thompson shows the…
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How To Build A Home Fusion Reactor
The Boy Who Played With Fusionhad its beginnings in 2010 when, as a contributing editor at PopSci, I discovered a small and unusual community of makers, high-energy…
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This Octopus Robot Has Tiny, Squishy Tentacles
Those other octopus-inspired robots are fine and all, but there are lots of things they can’t do. They’re all too thick to coil themselves tightly, and they manipulate tiny…
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Japan Wants To Dig Up Dirt On Martian Moons
In 2010, Hayabusa became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid, collect samples, and return them to Earth. Now JAXA, the Japanese space agency, is hoping to do it all…
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These Are The Most Creative Paintings Of All Time, According To A Computer
As much as they may try, some people just don’t “get” art. Understanding pieces by even the most famous masters of the genre elude them. Now computer scientists from Rutgers…
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