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There Used To Be Freaking Camels In The Arctic
High Arctic CamelJulius Csotonyi © Julius CsotonyiIn the northernmost reaches of Canada, within the Arctic Circle, scientists have found fossils of...camels. Wait, what? North America was a crazy place...
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10 Of The Best Nature Photographs Of the Year
Watching An Eclipsing Sun SetColleen PinskiThe finalists for Smithsonian's annual nature photography contest are in, and they're stunning. Smithsonian magazine has chosen its top picks for its 10th...
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How Much Porn Can You Buy For Your Kindle?
Erotic E-booksDreamstimeQuite a lot, apparently. But do you really want to look at nudie pics on a 6-inch, electrophoretic, black-and-white screen? The porn industry has always been on the forefront of...
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The Goods: March 2013's Hottest Gadgets
Philips Fidelio PhilipsTiny bluetooth earbuds, a TI-84 calculator fit for 2013, an app that coordinates your phone's audio settings with your daily schedule, and more Click to enter the galleryThis...
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Take This Quiz To Find Your Likelihood Of Dying By 2023
Doctor's ChecklistPhoto from the State of Connecticut's Consumer CornerSatisfy a morbid curiosity-or just leave it to the professionals. A new mortality index calculates people's chances of dying in...
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Curiosity Hunkers Down While Solar Blast Races Toward Mars
The Sun On March 7, 2013Solar Dynamics ObservatoryTrouble comes on the heels of the rover's recovery from a computer glitch. Just days after waking up from a self-imposed safe mode, the Mars rover...
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Deaf Baby Hears His Mother's Voice For The First Time [Video]
An eight-month old infant gets his cochlear implant activated. Sciencefact, a Facebook page devoted to educational science news, posted this video last night, of an 8-month old baby who was born deaf...
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Watch This Cat Play With An Optical Illusion [Video]
Rotating SnakesAkiyoshi Kitaoka via RIKEN BSI Neuroinformatics Japan CenterAn important science question AND a cute cat video. Not that you need an additional reason to watch a cat video, but this clip...
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Rare Binary Stars Provide A Better Yardstick For The Cosmos, And Could Help...
Eclipsing Binary As the two stars orbit each other, they pass in front of one another and their combined brightness, seen from a distance, decreases. By studying how the light changes, and other...
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Retired Lab Chimps See The Sky For The First Time [Video]
Tissues at the ready, everyone. A National Institute of Health report recently recommended retiring most government lab chimps. So what's next for them? Well, over the next year or so more than 100...
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This Is What Facebook Looks Like Now
The New FacebookFacebookThe inspiration is less and less MySpace, and more and more New York Times. At an event this morning, Facebook took the wraps off the service's latest design. The idea is, as...
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3-D Reconstruction Of Martian Surface Uncovers Lost Evidence Of Ancient Floods
Ancient Floodwaters on Mars The location of the ~1000 km Marte Vallis channel system on Mars. Marte Vallis is filled with young lavas obscuring the source and morphology of the channels. The dashed box...
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4 Ways To Make Digital Journalism Suck Less
Screenshot of the Rashomon Project interface Or something like that. These are new projects for using computer science for journalism. Rashomon ProjectUsing computer science to improve how journalists...
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Analysis Of 1,000 Books Finds Men Show Up 3 Times More Often Than Women...
Edith Wharton in 1905Downloaded from the MountFind how your favorite author stacks up. Plutarch was practically the worst, Edith Wharton was right on, and Shakespeare was about average. That's all in...
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Flying Robots 101: Everything You Need To Know About Drones
RQ-9 Reaper and an Aeryon Scout Quadrotor The armed RQ-9 Reaper MQ-1 Predator, seen on the left, is visually distinct from the Aeryon Scout Quadrotor. The Reaper is also six almost eleven times as...
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If Earth Were Hosting An Alien Species, This Is What It Would Look Like
Tardigrade in MossClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Nicole Ottawa & Oliver Meckes / Eye of Science / Science Source ImagesThe unkillable tardigrade rears its tiny, weird-looking...
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PopSci Visits The World's Largest Radio Telescope
Red ALMA ALMA antennae bathed in red light. In the background you can seee the southern Milky Way on the left and the Magellanic Clouds at the top. ESO/C. MalinALMA is finally being unwrapped, and your...
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This Bird Has Spent Nearly 20 Years Waiting For Endangered Species Protection
Kittletz's MurreletGlen TepkeHundreds of species of plants and animals have been waiting literally decades to even be considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Thankfully, that's...
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Science Is Institutionally Sexist. Here Are 4 Ways To Help Fix It
Women In Science Astronauts Jan Davis and Mae Jemison on the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992. NASAA special issue of Nature takes up the rampant sexism in science. Across most industries, women are paid...
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Volvos Now Detect And Brake For Cyclists
Seeing CyclistsVolvo Car GroupA deer detector could be next. This could be helpful no matter what side of the wheel you normally find yourself on. Volvo has built a system that automatically detects...
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