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This Small, Flexible Patch Will Monitor Your Sweat

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The patch would send data to your smartphone via Bluetooth

Scientists have invented a new wearable patch that measures both heart rate and body chemistry simultaneously.

People Were Making Beer In China 5,000 Years Ago

What Landmine-Detecting Plants Can Teach Us About Design

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Some jobs are better left to rats!

Whether to create a land mine sensing plant? Today’s biotechnologist has an array of tools, but applying those tools to the real world is its own problem.

LOCUST Launcher Fires A Swarm Of Navy Drones

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LOCUST Drone And Launcher

“... so that locusts swarm over the land and devour everything....”

LOCUST is a drone launching system.

New A.I. Analyzes Facial Structure To See Who's A Terrorist

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Faception thinks it can identify potential terrorists just by their faces.

Definitely not racial profiling, nope

A Start-up Is Selling A.I. That Claims To Idetify Terrorists Based On Their Face…

You Can Help Redesign The Spaceship Buildings From ‘Men In Black’

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The New York State Pavilion

The iconic New York State Pavilion is in disrepair, but a competition wants to change that

A vertical gallery showcasing some of the best new designs for the New York State Pavilion.

Watch A Furious Drone Race In 360-Degree Video

Tiny Wire Can Detect A Single Virus In Your Pee

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Testing technique could make a versatile new diagnostic tool

When someone is sick with some kind of infection, it’s crucial to quickly figure out what is causing it. But if that person has a viral infection, identifying the exact…

Peru Declares State Of Emergency Over Mercury Poisonings

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Gold Mining In Peru

The toxic metal is invading the food chain

Gold may be beautiful and valuable, but some mining operations to extract the precious metal are seriously dirty.

Watch A Useless, Beautiful Machine Sort Rocks

A New Solar Cell Converts The Sun’s Heat Into Usable Energy

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Solar Cell

This could double the amount of power that solar panels produce

The sun emits light, but it also emits heat.

Edible Six-Pack Rings Could Make The Ocean Safe Again

India's Weather Is So Hot Its Roads Are Melting

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TEMP FILE REPLACE

A horrendous heat wave

It sounds like something out of a cartoon. Someone crosses the road on a hot day and their shoes get stuck in the melting asphalt.

How the Toy Lightsaber Evolved

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Obama with a lightsaber

Compared to clumsy and random ones from the 70s, today's are elegant

Star Wars action figures and starship models have long populated the landscape of nerdy childhoods around the world, but no one toy was ever as coveted or abused as the…

University Students Launched A Rocket With Completely 3D-Printed Engine

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3D Printed Rocket Engine

They beat NASA to it

No one expects college kids to beat NASA to the punch.

Augmented Reality Visor Lets Firefighters See Through The Smoke

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Augmented Reality View

Staying cool and saving lives

When fighting fires, you want as many weapons as possible at your disposal.

A New Type Of Clock Could Change How We Measure Time

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Time

Scientists think optical clocks are ready to replace the atomic clock as the standard

German researchers have announced a novel way of practically using optical clocks to tell time with unmatched accuracy.

American Special Forces Have A New Stealth Motorcycle

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Artist Concept, SilentHawk Motorcycle With Saddlebags

DARPA shows off hybrid flexible fuel/electric vehicle

Silent bike for special types.

Can Trees Make Clouds Form?

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Yes, with help from the cosmos

The “pristine” atmosphere our planet had before the industrial revolution may have been cloudier than expected.

Could There Be A Fifth Fundamental Force Of Nature?

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Strong and weak nuclear force, electromagnetism, gravity... and maybe something else

Hungarian physicists think they've found a fifth force…
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