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In First Clinical Trial, Unemployed Rattlesnakes Find Work as Cancer-Fighters
Western Diamondback Rattlesnake Wikimedia Commons An Irish company is using four American diamondback rattlesnakes in a new clinical trial that will test snake venom as a treatment for cancer. The...
View ArticleStartup Harvests Otherwise Wasted Lithium From Geothermal Power Plants
Portable electronics and electric cars both need a steady supply of lithium, and while the world has plenty of it (at least for the foreseeable future), hardly any is produced in the U.S. That is...
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Mongolia Will Build Enormous Block of Ice to Beat Summer Heat
Naled A sheet of naled ice in Mongolia. That black dot is a person. NswansonGeoengineering, steppe-style This month, Mongolia will launch a project creating a huge manmade ice block to combat the...
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Worx JawSaw
The JawSaw WorxChainsaw, no massacre The electric JawSaw is a terror for wood but safe for the operator. Its metal jaws leave only a small amount of the chain exposed, minimizing the risk of contact...
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New Material Promises Faster Chips, Faster Internet, Faster Everything
Crystalline Erbium Compound via TG Daily We've constructed a world out of fiber optic cable and silicon, but Arizona State University researchers think their new material can do better. They have...
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Honduran Teen Invents Cheap, Simple Eye-Tracking Device For Disabled
Eyeboard via YouTubeAvailable in 2012 for $300 The gadget world is full of neat eye-tracking interfaces, from an iPhone version to a fully functioning laptop. But these are all fairly pricey and...
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Versabar VB10000
Versabar VB10000 Versabar$100-million oil rig lifter Salvaging a downed oil platform takes months, as a team of divers cuts apart the rig and a derrick hauls each piece to the surface. The VB10000 can...
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Testing the Best: The Jawbone Jambox, the Best Tiniest Wireless Speaker
Jawbone Jambox in the Kitchen Here you can see the diminutive Jambox on my kitchen side-table, next to my iPhone for scale (though I usually have it in my pocket while cooking) and in front of my...
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In NASA's New Budget: Webb Telescope Stays Alive, But Commercial Spaceflight...
Full-scale model of James Webb Space Telescope, on display in Munich The model weighs 12,000 pounds. EADS AstriumA House and Senate Committee keeps the JWST moving forward, but cuts NASA's commercial...
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Image Recognition Software Can Help Cops ID Gang Graffiti Automatically
Graffiti Salim Virji via Flickr Cops tracking gang activity frequently need to decipher graffiti, decoding messages, identifying gangs and even monitoring individual people by looking at their bubbly...
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Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display
Iran's New RQ-170 Stealth Drone It just fell into their laps via Nasim Online You know, it's one thing to "shoot down" the top secret spy drone of the imperialist zionist heathen enemy. But come on...
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Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among...
Don't Worry, I Got This The presence of a rat trapped in a restrainer elicits focused activity from his cagemate, who figures out how to open the door and liberates him. © Science/AAAS Given a choice...
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Brammo Empulse
Brammo Empulse BrammoThe fastest consumer electric motorcycle With a 100mph top speed and 100 miles of driving range, the Brammo Empulse 10.0 is the fastest and farthest-driving consumer electric...
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Bill Gates to Collaborate With China on a Fourth-Generation Nuclear Reactor
Bill Gates Wow! Wikimedia Commons Bill Gates recently confirmed during a talk at China's Ministry of Science and Technology that a company in which he is a primary investor, Terrapower, will be...
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The Most Amazing Images of the Week, December 5-9, 2011
Kung Fu Gecko Indonesian photographer Shikhei Goh made an entire series about geckos (his own pets--these are not professionals, people) in badass poses. Check out the gallery over at io9. Shikhei Goh...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Nexus Review: This Is Android
This gets said every month, but yes, the Galaxy Nexus is the best Android phone on the market. This time it's by a long shot Here's the thing about the Galaxy Nexus: It is the best Android phone...
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HP to Make the Late, Great, WebOS Open Source
HP TouchPad HP/Palm HP has spent the last year or so, as the new owner of the WebOS mobile operating system, alternately making arbitrary decisions about the platform's future and making sure to not...
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Driving a London Cab (or Just Studying for the Test) Causes Structural...
London Black Cab Wikimedia Commons Unlike here in New York, where telling a cabbie to take you to even some of the most common intersections often result in a response of "Okay, how do I get there?",...
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Bombardier Global 8,000
Bombardier Global 8,000 Courtesy Bombardier Inc.Longest-haul private jet With a range of 9,000 miles, roughly the distance from New York to Hong Kong, the Bombardier Global 8,000 flies farther than any...
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This Week in the Future, December 5-9, 2011
This Week in the Future, December 5-9, 2011 Baarbarian We're in for a weird one, you guys. Surfing, sandwich-eating mammoths will surf in the mountaintops. The threatened American crocodile gets saved...
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