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Valkyrie Might Be The Baddest And Most Gorgeous Plane Ever Made

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Valkyrie

It's one of 10 innovations to win a 2016 Invention Award

The Valkyrie could be yours for shy of $1 million.

The Legacy Of 'Mythbusters': A Q&A With Adam Savage

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Mythbusters

A lifetime inspiration award for the show that has driven thousands of DIYers

Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman redefined the intersection of science, technology, and pop culture.

SpaceX's Landed Falcon 9 Is On A Road Trip Back To Kennedy Space Center

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On a really, really, really long trailer

The 15-story rocket booster on top of it landed on a drone ship on April 8, and after about a week and a half of getting it off the ship and ready for transport, SpaceX…

What Is A Biosimilar Drug?

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Chemical structure of biologic drug Remicade

Here’s why you’ll be seeing that word a lot in the future

Earlier this month, the FDA approved a biosimilar drug called Inflectra, which could be used to treat a handful of inflammatory conditions such as Crohn’s disease,…

Brush Fires In New Jersey Shut Down Train Service

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Fire in New Jersey

A fast burn

Here in the United States, when we think about brush fires, we think about wildfires out West, the kinds that tear through the wilderness. But brush fires can happen…

4 Scientific Naming Contests That Went Awry

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RIP RSS Boaty McBoatface

Boaty McBoatface is in good company

Sometimes, naming contests can go the way that their creators expected. Other times, not so much.

Congress Report On The Air Force’s New Bomber Reveals Tantalizingly Little

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B-21 Concept Art

Unknown and unflown

Read about the B-21 like a congressperson.

NASA Is Making A Drone-Traffic Control System

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Drone Test Viewing

It already successfully tracked 24 drones flying simultaneously across 6 states

NASA tests drone air traffic control…

March Smashes Global Temperature Records Keeping Heat Streak Alive

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Temperature Differences

11 straight months of temperature records

This March beat out all other Marches of the past to get the title of hottest March since record-keeping began in the late 1800's. It beat the previous record (which…

Watch An Animated Titanic Sink In Real Time

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Still Of Animated Titanic Sinking

161 minutes to wonder why Rose didn't let Jack on that floating plank

Animation of Titanic sinking…

Those Silicone Bracelets Track Which Chemicals You've Been Exposed To

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Silicone bracelets

A reason to bring them back into fashion

Those Livestrong bracelets might have gone out of fashion after Lance Armstrong’s doping scandal, but scientists have come up with a new reason to bring them back. The…

Watch The Air Force Set A MagLev Speed Record

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USAF MAGLEV Rocket Sled Test

Fast and frictionless

Airforce tested a superfast maglev sled…

Behold What Brooklyn's New Tallest Skyscraper Will Look Like

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Rendering of the new supertall Brooklyn skyscraper 9 DeKalb Avenue

I call it the 'Glitchtower'

That said, "the Glitchtower" does have a nice, futuristic, appropriately ironic ring to it.

NASA Wants New Designs For Ways We Could Live In Deep Space

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For the moon, Mars, and beyond

How will humans live on Mars? Well, NASA's not really sure yet, but if you've got any ideas you can submit them now.

The Fractal Is A Beautiful Gift To Mathematicians And Stoners Alike

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 A fractal based on Benoit Mandelbrot's equation.

Fractals are endlessly cool

The Fractal Is A Beautiful Gift To Mathematicians And Stoners Alike…

First Blood Test For Parkinson’s Detects Disease Much Sooner

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Blood test

It could be available in the next five years

Researchers from La Trobe University in Australia have developed a diagnostic blood test for Parkinson’s.

Mitsubishi Admits To Faking Fuel Economy Data

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Mitsubishi Logo

Cheaters

The hits just keep on coming.

Fall(out) Guy Part 10

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In with the bad. Out with the... worse?

Radiation puts stress on organisms. But when radiation moves in, is it possible that something with more impact moves out?

Solar Plane Resumes Round-The-World Flight On Thursday

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Solar Impulse

That was a long layover

Just in time for Earth Day, the Solar Impulse 2 is taking to the skies, resuming it's around the world journey on April 21 at 11:00 AM Eastern.
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