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Video: President Obama Test-Fires a Marshmallow Cannon at the White House...
Obama, Testing the Goods $90 million has been earmarked for development of the weapon system (not really) "The Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this." And with due cause, Mr. President,...
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Pretty Space Pics: The Carina Nebula 'Dramatically' Captured in Infrared
The Carina Nebula, Captured by the Very Large Telescope ESO/T. Preibisch Today in Pretty Space Pics: The Carina Nebula, detailed as never before in the infrared spectrum. The European Southern...
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Gray Matter: Recasting The Highly Hazardous Toys of the Past
Gives new meaning to the term "getting the lead out" Among the most strictly enforced consumer-protection laws are those banning lead in toys. Lead is an insidious poison: It's slow-acting and results...
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Using Heat to Record Information Could Improve Data Storage Speed a Hundred-Fold
Heat-Based Magnetic Switching The laser pulse temporarily aligns the two ferrimagnetic materials (the red and blue in this image) while powered on, and then the materials revert once it's off. Richard...
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Videogame Designers Envision The Future of Fun
Predictions, opinions, and hopes from the creators of Gears of War, Mass Effect 3, Halo 4, and more This month, Popular Science explores the future of fun. Here on PopSci.com, we've teamed up with the...
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An Oral History of Extreme Sports
"Gravity has always been a major part of my life." In the waning decades of the 20th century, men from New Zealand began inventing new ways to injure themselves. They jumped from bridges with elastic...
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Video: DARPA's Legged Squad Support System (a.k.a. Big Dog) Goes Outside to Play
Here at PopSci, we've been fascinated by Boston Dynamics' Big Dog ever since it was an adorable robotic puppy that couldn't even open its eyes. Now that the technology is all grown up, repackaged, and...
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The EU is Considering Using Drones to Police Farm Subsidies, Enforce...
Looking Down on Farmland in the UK Jim Bain via Wikimedia When European farmers turn their eyes skyward, they soon may have more than the weather to worry about. The more progressive aviation framework...
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Video: Creepiest Mirror Ever Displays Ghostly Animal Heads Mimicking Your...
Surprise! Karolina Sobecka Augmented reality can do some really creepy things to mirrors. This new concept displays a 3-D animal avatar as your reflection, mimicking your facial expressions in a...
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Video Microscopy Unveils the Tricks of Nature's Toughest Glue, Oozed By a...
Crescent Bacterium Yves Brun, Indiana University/via LiveScience A soybean-shaped bacterium called Caulobacter crescentus, found in freshwater and seawater, makes one of the strongest adhesives in the...
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Found: The Oldest Animal Ever on Planet Earth
Otavia antiqua could be the earliest human ancestor, predating the previous earliest known animal by tens of millions of years. Our earliest evolutionary ancestor may have been found in the form of...
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The LEGO Master Builder Academy, Part One: In Which I Begin My Training
Space Fighter 1 Corinne IozzioLEGO's Master Builder class teaches you to see those little blocks in a totally new way--though that's not easy I'm getting my MBA. Of course, MBA stands in this case for...
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Archive Gallery: Board Games Weren't Always Fun
Archive: Games, May 1972 Nearly 100 years of questionable games in the pages of PopSci Popular Science's history isn't all flying cars and geodesic domes. Readers of the past liked to have fun, too!...
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These are the anti-Monopolys German- or Euro-style board games--the best-known of which is probably Settlers of Catan, at least here in the States--are a revolution in analog gaming. They're everything...
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Six Inventors Visualize the Ultimate Toy
The Ultimate Toy Ollie BlandSome of the most brilliant and successful toy creators ever talk about their ultimate toy--setting aside money, safety, and the very laws of physics What would the creators...
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A Smartphone That Detects Whether Its User Is Depressed
An App for That DanielZanetti via Wikimedia "Siri, how do I feel right now?" Apple's automated assistant might not be so perceptive as to know, but your smartphone may soon be able to assess your mood...
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Do-It-Yourself Projects That Deliver Hours of Play
Sledding Winch Tim EggertBuild a robot that plays Angry Birds for you Sure, you can buy fun things. But if you make them, you get the fun of construction plus the fun of use, with a dash of...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, February 6-10, 2012
Cyber Woman With Corn Max Read over at Gawker turned us on to this amazing Shutterstock series, mysteriously titled "Cyber Woman With a Corn." What could you use this photo to illustrate? What couldn't...
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This Week in the Future, February 6-10, 2012
This Week in the Future, February 6-10, 2012 Baarbarian We've been obsessed with fun this week. Ogling the most amazing and groundbreaking playgrounds we've ever seen, playing with great new videogame...
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The Goods: February 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Wi-Spi Helicopter Claire BenoistAn Android speaker dock, a radiator booster, an RC spy-copter, and much more Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These...
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