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A Stunning Painting Done In A Petri Dish And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Petri Painting Artist Klari Reis has been creating an abstract painting every day in 2013. The twist? The paintings are all in petri dishes. If only actual bacterial cultures came out this beautiful....
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Yes, This Exists: An Indiegogo Campaign For A Luxury Airship RV
Luxury Airship RVRhy ThorntonI want to believe in the airship revival, but this crowdfunded luxury airship RV project just seems like, uh, dead air. The U.S. military might have given up on the modern...
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Mice Get Smarter After Scientists Inject Them With Human Brain Cells
Wild Lab MouseTambako the JaguarResearchers show how glial cells can give mice a boost. When you think of a brain, you might imagine a flashing chain of neurons beaming messages to one another. But a...
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How Mazda Reinvented the Diesel Engine
Under PressureCourtesy MazdaThe company's new diesel engine will get 44 mpg plus meet strict emission standards. Diesel-engine designers have long grappled with a dilemma: Reducing emissions meant...
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3-D-Printed Implant Replaces 75 Percent Of Man's Skull
Sketched SkullOxford Performance MaterialsHow long until we can successfully 3-D print a whole human? The rise of 3-D printing has turned body parts into a custom order. We can now 3-D-print customized...
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Amazing Videos Of Animals Catching Their Prey In Slow-Mo
Veiled Chameleon Catching Its PreyStephen Deban/YouTubeIf you've never seen a Chinese Giant Salamander turn its mouth into a vacuum to slurp up its prey, or watched an archer fish take insects out of...
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No, Architects, You Can't Plant Trees On Top Of Skyscrapers
Vertical Forests Concept for the Bosco Verticale, or "Vertical Forest," high-rises. These buildings are now under construction in Milan. Picture by Boeri Studio (Stefano Boeri, Gianandrea Barreca,...
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FYI: How Do You Keep A Dead Political Leader Fresh For Public Viewing?
Hugo ChavezWikimedia CommonsThe corpse of Hugo Chavez is on display for a week. The death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has been met with mixed feelings here in the US. But he was adored in his...
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Makerbot Shows Off New 3-D Scanner That Turns Real Objects Into 3-D-Printable...
DigitizerMakerbotAn easy way to scan an object and let the world 3-D print it. Right at the start of South by Southwest, MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis has announced the company's 3-D printing desktop...
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New Worldwide Network Lets Robots Ask Each Other Questions When They Get...
Making the Sausage Rosie the robot waits for the sausages to be cooked before taking them out of the water and serving them. TUMRapyuta, the cloud for robots, is now online. Robbie the robot is...
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Are Functional MRI Scans Not Functioning Right?
Head First fMRI machines like this one are helping scientists decode brain activity. Courtesy Yukiyasu Kamitani/ATR Brain Activity Imaging CenterA new study says results from some fMRI scans are...
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Let's Ban Scores In Gaming Reviews
SimCityEAThere are some good ideas for fixing the terrible, arbitrary scale games are reviewed on. But the best idea might be to just get rid of them. The gaming website Polygon took some minor heat...
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This Week In The Future: Frozen Camel Cravings Are Off The Hook
This Week In The Future, March 4-8, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, everyone gets a Ferrari! Want to win this supreme Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's easy! The rules: Follow us on Twitter...
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The U.S. Says It Could Stop A North Korean Missile. How?
THAAD interceptor missileU.S. Missile Defense AgencyNorth Korea has basically zero chance of hitting anyone but themselves with a nuke. But if they did manage to launch a missile, what technology do we...
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SXSW 2013: Watch Elon Musk's Keynote Speech Live
SpaceX's Elon Musk is giving the keynote speech at SXSW this year. Watch it here. Live Video app for Facebook by Ustream
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SXSW 2013: Al Gore On The Future [Live]
WSJ reporter Walter Mossberg interviews Al Gore at SXSW. Live broadcast by Ustream
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49-Year-Old Research Sub Alvin Gets A $40 Million Makeover
Alvin ReduxIllustration: Kevin Hand Inset: Courtesy Mark Spear © Woods Hole Oceanographic InstitutionWhich is a bargain, actually. The ocean covers nearly three quarters of our planet, yet humans have...
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How To Build A 2,073-Foot Skyscraper
Shanghai TowerGensler Architects Inside the construction of the Shanghai Tower. When it opens in 2014, the Shanghai Tower won't just be the world's second-tallest building. The 2,073-foot-high...
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The Master Memories of Savants
Pure GeniusPaul Lachine and Graham MurdochWhether people acquire savant syndrome or are born with it, they exhibit a range of astounding skills. Most share one common thread: tremendous memory. KIM...
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Dad Of The Year Hacks 'Donkey Kong' So His Daughter Can Play The Princess And...
Mario save the princess? Pfft. Mike Mika says in the YouTube description for this video that his 3-year-old daughter wanted to be able to save Mario while playing Donkey Kong. Why not? She could play...
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