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Everything You Need To Know About The Piracy-Battling Copyright Alert System
Ahoy, PiratesWikimedia CommonsUS copyright holders like the RIAA and MPAA have a new weapon to battle piracy. Read on to find out what it is, how it works, and whether you should be scared to snag a...
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Did The U.S. Buy Its Moon Program From Yugoslavia?
Apollo 17 Awaits Launch The trailer for a new film project asserts Saturn rockets, like this one, were mostly made in Yugoslavia. Photo credit to the Apollo Program, NASAAn attention-grabbing new...
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Bats Build Mental Maps Of Their Surroundings And Remember Them For Future...
Big Brown BatMatt Reinbold via Wikimedia CommonsLike people choosing which path to take from the grocery store, bats develop preferred routes and remember them. Many species of bats use echolocation to...
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Could This App Treat Depression?
BrainTracer Game PrototypeBrainTracerA new company with a Harvard psychiatrist as inventor-in-residence says it's got the research to back up its claims. Diego Pizzagalli spent a good chunk of 10 years...
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Watch A Baby's Face Change Color With Her Tiny, Normally Invisible Pulse
MIT's image amplification system makes imperceptible movements and color changes visible. Last summer, a group of MIT scientists debuted a new video amplification algorithm that exaggerates slight...
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FYI: Does Thinking Too Hard Wear You Out?
Thought ExperimentGeorge Marks/Retrofile/Getty ImagesIf it does, it's all in your head. The brain makes up about 1⁄50 of our body weight but consumes about one fifth of the oxygen we breathe. It's...
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Megapixels: A Wind Turbine That Can Power 6,000 Households
Bigger, Better BladesCourtesy SiemensThe world's largest wind turbine has rotator blades the size of an Airbus. Last fall in Østerild, Denmark, the German company Siemens built the world's largest wind...
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Scientists Put A Working Eyeball On A Tadpole's Tail
Tadpole With Grafted EyeDouglas J. BlackistonIt turns out we seriously underestimated the central nervous system. It's hard to say what's crazier: the fact that Tufts University researchers spent a...
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BeerSci: Is That Water In Your Pint Glass?
Beersci LogoTodd DetwilerAnheuser-Busch is being sued for watering down their beer, but there's a way to test for that. I was going to write about hops and the people who crave them this week, but got...
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I Didn't Like TED. Then I Got It
TED welcome partyTED ConferenceThis was my first year at the cultural cartoon, crossroad of power, and factory of influence that is TED. I've spent my career following the rich and freewheeling through...
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Insanely Life-Like Sculptures Of Giants And More Amazing Images From This Week
Sculptures Of Giants Artist Ron Mueck created amazing sculptures like this for the Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain, an exhibition in Paris. Fun and a little creepy. Kinda hard not to imagine...
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Robot Of The Week: Artas Harvests Living Human Hairs, One By One
Artas, the Hair RobotRestoration RoboticsCould you use a few thousand hairs? This robot can find them. Artas is the first ever FDA-approved hair transplant robot, designed to accomplish the...
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Watch BigDog, Our Favorite Four-Legged Military Robot, Hurl A Cinder Block
Playing fetch with BigDog just got a whole lot more fun. And destructive. We've described Boston Dynamics' military-funded BigDog robot as a lot of non-canine things over the years. "The offspring of a...
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Let's Get Rid Of 16:9 Laptops Forever
Chromebook Pixel's 3:2 ScreenStan HoraczekThis screen aspect ratio makes no sense. Embrace the squarer display! The latest laptop to cross my review desk (it's just my regular desk, I don't have two...
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A Police-Grade Booze Breathalyzer That Plugs Into Your Phone [Video]
AlcohootDave MosherBlow into the device, and it displays your blood alcohol content on your iPhone. To get drinkers to play it safe after a night out, three young entrepreneurs are banking on a...
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World's Sexiest Octopus Ostracized By Biologists
Larger Pacific Striped OctopusRoy CaldwellDue to its peculiar lifestyle and mating habits, the larger Pacific striped octopus has been largely ignored by scientists. It doesn't even have a Latin name....
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This Week In The Future: The Grim Eater
This Week In The Future, February 25-March 1, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, Death will know who stole his Cheetos. Want to win this hellish Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules:...
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A Bedazzled Drone Replica Asks Us To Ponder Deadly Strikes At Home
Bedazzled PredatorThe artists behind this 18-foot rhinestone- and sequin-encrusted Predator replica want to push audiences to think about the consequences of deadly drone strikes in places like...
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A Clear Screen Cover That Charges Devices
See-Through Solar Ubiquitous Energy president Miles Barr demonstrates his company's translucent solar coating. Fraunhofer USAJuice your Kindle during a day in the park. Could this be a window to...
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Researchers Create A 'Google Map' Of The Human Metabolism
Mapping Human MetabolismRecon XNever get lost in your own metabolic processes again! An international team of researchers has debuted what they're calling a "Google map" of the human metabolism -- the...
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