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Cool Plasma Torch Kills Germs on Raw Chicken
Plasma Versus Chicken Breast Dirks et al., Journal of Food Protection We've seen the plasma beam toothbrush, where a blast of room-temperature plasma destroys plaque and bacteria in your mouth. Now...
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Russian Scientists Drilling into "Alien" Antarctic Lake Vostok Fall Silent
Vostok Station Todd Sowers LDEO, Columbia University At Lake Vostok, the coldest place on earth, a Russian team of scientists have been attempting to drill through a two-mile-thick ice layer into the...
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10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Tetranitratoxycarbon Professor Robert Zoellner holds a model of tetranitratoxycarbon. He has a co-authorship on a paper about the new molecule--along with ten-year-old Clara Lazen. Humboldt State...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Hunts For Mythical Beasts
Searching for the Yeti Through the Years Abominable snowmen, sea serpents and dragons, oh my! We don't see a lot of cryptozoology - the study of animals that have not yet been proven to exist - in the...
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A Modern Super Bowl Sunday Is Nothing Without Puffed Cheese-Flavored Snacks
Modernist Cheese Puff Modernist CuisineHere's how to make your own, with just three kinds of food starch The creators of Modernist Cuisine are getting ready to watch the big game just like anybody...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, January 30-February 3, 2012
Moon-Printed Houses We've seen this idea before--Enrico Dini of D-Shape talked to us awhile back about a giant 3-D printer that'd print houses on the moon, out of moon-rocks and moon-dust. But a bunch...
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The Future of Fun Is Repetitive Drudgery
Where's the Pixel? wheresthepixel.com Look at this video game. It's a great motivator to keep your monitor spotlessly clean -- go on, get your chemical-impregnated microfiber cloth and give it a...
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This Week in the Future, January 30-February 3, 2012
This Week in the Future, January 30-February 3, 2012 Baarbarian Whoa, you guys. This is one of our favorite Baarbarian illustrations ever. That weird story about the blue goo spheres dropping from the...
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To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood...
Rhesus Monkey Whoever double-crosses me and leaves me alive, he understands nothing about Tuco. Nothing! Einar Fredriksen via Wikimedia Scores of animals exist in scientific laboratories for the...
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Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World
Water Flea and Ball A water flea plays with a volvox, a type of green algae. Ralf Wagner/via Nikon The winners of the Nikon Small World microvideography contest Every year we're enthralled by the...
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This Cuddly Phase-Change Robot Will Keep You Warm at Night
Hagent Hagent is a small black box on wheels, containing phase-change material and a heat sensor. Daniel Abendroth The space heater nestled perpetually at my side this time of year can be pretty...
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Nikon's New D800 Is a 36.3-Megapixel Multimedia Monster
Nikon D800 Nikon Our friends over at Popular Photography got themselves a look at the new Nikon D800 DSLR, the followup to the well-liked D700 and the soon-to-be little brother to Nikon's newest...
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Were these photos of New York taken by tourists, or by natives? Eric Fischer analyzed thousands of photos of New York. Based on the historical data from each uploader's Flickr account, he deduced which...
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Why Crunching Data For Science Is the Future of Game-Playing
Learning Foldit This screen depicts the fireworks display you get when solving a puzzle challenge in Foldit's 32-puzzle demo. The majority of players who try Foldit give up on the first day, said the...
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Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015
The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it's been a long time coming. Congress finally passed a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, allocating $63.4 billion for...
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Minecraft: Making Your Own Fun, One Brick At a Time
Minecraft: In the Bedroom Reece BennettBuilding a whole new way to game The era of the rampage is officially over. In 2001, Grand Theft Auto III introduced a mass audience to a new way of experiencing...
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Attempt at the World's Highest Skydive, from 120,000 Feet, is Rescheduled for...
Felix Baumgartner would be the first human to go supersonic outside of a vehicle Man has never crossed the sound barrier outside of an aircraft, and Austrian extreme athlete Felix Baumgartner--holder...
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iRobot's 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field
iRobot's 710 Warrior iRobot We've been catching glimpses of iRobot's 710 Warrior ground robot at trade shows and in videos for something like 2 years now. We even saw a couple of pared down prototypes...
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UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their...
Where the Metal Meets the Mind A new report from the UK's Royal Society suggest several ways neuroscience can be leveraged to enhance defense technologies--including via weapons that meld with the...
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200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World's Oldest Living Organism
Posidonia Oceanica Wikimedia Commons A patch of Posidonia oceanica, a species of seagrass native to the Mediterranean, has just gotten its DNA sequenced and its age determined--and as it turns out,...
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