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Baton Rouge Drone Company Films Louisiana Flooding

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Flooding in Baton Rouge

Saving livelihoods, maybe even lives

Flooding filmed by drone…

How Mummifying Mice Will Help Push Study Of Ancient Cancers

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Sarcophagus from ancient egypt

Mice not included

Humankind has been getting sick since, well, the beginning of humankind. And that means that one way to progress in fighting illnesses, specifically cancers, could be to…

NASA Will Pay $1 Million If You Can Make This Robot Ready For Mars

Software for Self-Driving Cars -- No GPS Necessary

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GATEway project autonomous pod

Oxbotica's software creates 3D point clouds for autonomous vehicles

Oxbotica's Selenium software creates 3D point clouds for autonomous and self-driving cars to use for navigation in the real world.

The Iceman Wore Five Different Animal Products When He Died

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Iceman Clothing

Dressed to kill (or be killed)

It gives a whole new meaning to the infernal question of every red carpet ever: who are you wearing?

This Is Your Brain On The Hallucinogenic Drug Ayahuasca

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What a trip

ASAP Science a YouTube Channel created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, just posted this interesting video looking into how the drug ayahuasca actually affects parts of…

Tiny, Soft Robotic Caterpillar Creeps, Climbs, And Crawls

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Caterpillar micro-robot sitting on a finger tip.

And it can push objects ten times its size

A, tiny soft robotic caterpillar that can crawl when stimulated with light has been developed by researchers at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Warsaw. The…

Scientists Design Genome For Upgraded E. Coli

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New type of genetic engineering could lead to bacteria with enhanced abilities

Scientists have designed a bacterial genome that has been rewritten on a massive scale, with changes in more than 62,000 spots.

Shipwreck From Early 1800s Discovered in Lake Ontario

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Three retirees have identified a rare trading vessel

The wreckage of a ship that once carried furs and other goods across the Great Lakes has been discovered at the bottom of Lake Ontario.

Is This HoloLens Game The Future Of Crime Fiction?

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Microsoft Hololens 'Fragments'

'Fragments' hides holographic clues under your furniture

Out of Microsoft's cadre of upcoming Hololens releases, the one that's continually fascinating to me is 'Fragments.'…

U.N. Claims Some Responsibility For Bringing Cholera To Haiti

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The 2010 outbreak killed thousands

Although the United Nations acknowledges its part in bringing cholera to Haiti in 2010, which killed 10,000, it refuses to pay reparations to victims and their…

Fish Pee May Be Helping Coral Reefs More Than We Think

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high hat fish in plastic bag

Fishing large, predatory fish can deplete reefs of nitrogen, phosphorus

Overfishing our oceans is an obvious hit to biodiversity. You’re simply taking out too many fish. But a new study published in Nature Communications shows that fishing…

New Hydrogel Film Repairs Corneal Cells

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So far, it’s been successfully implanted in sheep eyes

Scientists at the University of Melbourne have successfully implanted a special film on the corneas of sheep to restore their vision.

This New XBox Game Lets You Literally Battle Cancer

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I, Hope

'I, Hope' follows a little girl set on wiping out the illness

The brainchild of Arconyx's Kenny Roy, development and training laboratory ANOMALIA and the GameChanger charity, I, Hope is an upcoming ID@Xbox release with one goal in…

Marvel Announces Science, Tech, and Math-Devoted Comic Book Covers [Exclusive]

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Spider Man

Arriving November 2016

Marvel comics dedicates comic book cover campaign to the sciences…

How To Create Vortex Rings In Your Swimming Pool

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An easy backyard physics experiment

Dianna Cowern created vortex rings in a friend's backyard swimming pool.

Why Is Louisiana Flooding So Badly, And How Can We Prepare For It Next Time?

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Flooding In Baton Rouge

Setting an unprecedented precedent

How did this natural disaster sneak up on us so quickly? And how can we possibly be prepared for the next one?

Black Mirror Takes A Retro Turn For New Season

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The show's creator dropped these first-looks on Twitter and the Internet went nuts

Show creator Charlie Booker dropped first-look images from two episodes of the British techno-drama on Twitter:…

Zebra Finches Sing A Special Song To Warn Babies Of Hot Weather

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It's getting hot in here, so take off all your shells

Scientists have found that Zebra finches sing a special song to their eggs when it's hot outside.

The First Step To An Artificial Womb

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Insane idea

One of 10 insane ideas that just might save the world

The First Step To An Artificial Womb…
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