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The 'Diet Coke And Mentos' Guys Are Still At It 10 Years Later

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Warm, flat, minty Coke

Explosive success

10 years after their first viral video, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz are still performing with Diet Coke and Mentos.

DARPA Wants To Figure Out How We Can Shrug Off Disease

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Why are some animals naturally more tolerant to infection than others?

Harvard researchers are spending a lot of money to figure out disease tolerance…

What Was the Mir Space Station?

Phone Cameras Could Get As Sharp As DSLRs, By Bending Laws Of Nature

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Also useful for telescopes and microscopes

Phone Cameras Could Get As Sharp As DSLRs, By Bending Laws Of Nature…

A Tour Of The Space Shuttle Enterprise, With A Shuttle Astronaut

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Mike Massimino shows me around

A Tour Of The Shuttle Enterprise, With A Shuttle Astronaut…

Slack Is Creating An Artificially Intelligent Office Manager

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Slack hopes their A.I. efforts will help answer basic office questions.

"Slackbot, what's the wi-fi password?"

Slack Is Building A.I. To Be Your Digital Office Manager…

Bikini Atoll Likely Still Too Radioactive For Resettlement

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Castle Bravo Thermonuclear Test

New study reveals long reach of past weapons

Nukes are deadly into the future, too.

We May Soon Capture The First Real Image Of A Black Hole

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ALMA telescope array

Thanks to a new world-spanning algorithm

A new algorithm will combine data from future telescopes to image black holes…

NASA Is Funding A Concept To Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships

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asteroid-turned-spacecraft

So we can mine them

American companies are itching to get their hands on the gold, platinum, and other minerals that asteroids are thought to contain.

Computer Simulation Lets You Create Your Own Traffic Jam

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Ring Road

It's way more fun than sitting in one

Sitting in traffic is miserable. It's bad enough when the car congestion is caused by construction or crashes, but it's a far worse feeling to get through traffic…

Partner Post: Enter This Auction To Win A Tour Of The New Facebook Headquarters

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Facebook's Erick Tseng

Plus pay a visit to the candy and gift shops

This auction can win you a tour of the Facebook headquarters…

Google’s Most Ambitious Life Sciences Projects Are Struggling To Launch

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Despite the grand ideas, the science of Verily may not be there yet

Three years ago, Andrew Conrad, an executive at Google’s then biotech venture which would eventually become Verily, proposed an idea for a device similar to the…

Watch An Experimental Solar Plane's Evening Flight To NYC Tonight

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Landing

The 'Solar Impulse 2' is headed to the city that never sleeps

Sometime around midnight, a solar-powered airplane will take off for the city that never sleeps.

This TV Repels Mosquitoes

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Mosquito

Part of LG's effort to make the home healthy

The Newest Mosquito Repellent Also Happens To Be A Television…

Gigantic Space-Based Test To Detect Gravitational Waves Might Actually Work

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LISA Pathfinder Experiment

Intriguing results from LISA Pathfinder mission

Making gravity waves.

Bionic Leaf Is 10 Times Better At Photosynthesis Than Real Plants

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Bionic Leaf 2.0

Take that, trees

Plants take in carbon dioxide, water and sunshine to create energy. Now researchers have done the same, even better.

Google Just Released an App That Turns Your iPhone Live Photos Into GIFs

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Motion Stills

This is going to change your GIF game forever

The days of shaky amateur reaction GIFs and un-stabilized video may be behind us, thanks to a new iPhone App from Google called Motion Stills. While the end result of…

Drones And Helicopters Team Up To Scout Targets In Iraq

North Korea's Plutonium Facilities Reactivated

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Inspection Of North Korean Nuclear Facilities, 2008

Definitely plutonium, risks known.

Korea is mucking about with plutonium again.

This Is What Magic Leap's VR Headset Will Look Like

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Magic Leap VR Headset

A patent filing gives a sneak preview of the hotly anticipated virtual reality gadget

Secretive VR company Magic Leap has been silent about plans for their VR headset, but luckily, and with the success of its patent application, a bit of information has…
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