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Climate Change Belongs In Classrooms, Say New National Science Education...
Disko Bay, Greenland The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland's annual mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this....
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Will Your Twitter Account Get You Fired?
FireMe!A new service offers helpful analysis. You should probably have a sense already of whether your Twitter account might get you in trouble at your job. Like, complaining about the stupidity of...
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Study: Wastewater Injection Caused Oklahoma's Largest-Ever Earthquake
Earthquakes In Oklahoma Between 1973 And 2011 The yellow dots show earthquakes before 2009. The orange dots show earthquakes between 2009 and 2011. The red dots show earthquakes after November 5, 2011....
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The European Space Agency Has Made A Snap-Proof Super-Thin Space Tether
Snap-ProofESAAw, snap! Electric solar sails use long metal tethers that conduct electricity and interact with solar wind ions and propel a spacecraft. Invented in 2006, the technology could allow us to...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Circular-Eyed Fellow?
Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: we have a winner!So, here are the rules: To...
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FBI Wants To Spy On Your Online Chats As They Happen
FBI HeadquartersAude, via Wikimedia CommonsTechnology has moved on, and the FBI wants to be right there, snooping on the latest tech. "Is this conversation unencrypted?" is going to be the new "Are you...
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How A Seven-Sexed Organism Gets It On
Tetrahymena thermophilaWikimedia CommonsScience solves a mystery that's more than 50 years old. The specifics of how a single-celled organism called Tetrahymena thermophila gets it on has been a...
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Caffeine-Addicted Bacteria Die If You Give Them Decaf
Red Bull: Food For E. coliWikipediaEngineered E. coli could be used to clean caffeine-polluted waterways. Caffeine. Like so many other wonderful compounds that provide a lift, buzz, high or other...
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Amazon's X-Ray Answers The Question "Where Do I Know That Actor From?" While...
Amazon X-RayDan NosowitzA seamless, real-time infusion of "who is that guy again?" into your TV-watching experience It's happened to all of us: you're watching a TV show or movie, and an actor, one of...
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Google Street View Shows Abandoned Fukushima Town
Quiet streets in Namie-machi, JapanGoogle Street View, March 2013Google worked with the town's mayor to show the world a place that hasn't been able to recover from the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami...
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How A Tool For Perfect Human Vision Grew From One Of NASA's Greatest Blunders
Mirror Testing The flight mirrors for the James Webb Space Telescope undergo cryogenic testing at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center. Ball AerospaceTechnology used to build NASA's newest eyes on the...
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Kinect-Powered Virtual Therapist Tracks Your Body Language To Help Diagnose You
The Simsensei avatar and dashboardFrom "SimSensei & MultiSense: Virtual Human and Multimodal Perception for Healthcare Support" by USCICT on YouTubeA new psychiatrist-aiding machine records not...
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SCOTUS Justices Can't Find Science On Same-Sex Marriage
Pop Art Couple© Rceeh | Dreamstime.comSo we found it for them. In their recent consideration of the legality of same sex marriage, two members of the Supreme Court called into question whether or not...
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Super-Fashionable Zoo Animals And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Animal FashionYago Partal via Co.DesignPlus the world's largest Rubik's cube mural, Peeps astronauts and more Click here to enter the gallery
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Watch This Guy Remix Super Mario By Glitching It Out
It's the r-r-r-r-remix. super mario spacetime organ (illucia & soundplane) from paperkettle on Vimeo.Chris Novello is working on some hardware called Illucia, a system that can route information...
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Popular Science Bracket: And The Winner Is...
Land Robots V. Flying Drones, winner Katie Peek and Colin Lecher After five nail-biting rounds, we have a winner! The people have spoken. The greatest landbot/ sky drone in all the internet is.... the...
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This Weird Green Rock Is From Mercury
A Rock From MercuryStefan Ralew/sr-meteorites.deWell, Mercury or a "Mercury-like body." It's unlike any other meteorite ever found on Earth. Last year, a group of 35 meteorite samples was found in...
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Razer Edge Review: A Beautiful, Portable Gaming Gadget That You Won't Take On...
The Razer EdgeRazerThe Razer Edge is a tablet with the guts of a gaming PC stuffed inside. That makes it plenty powerful, even if it ends up just sitting by your TV. The market's ready for something...
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4-Billion-Pixel Panorama Lets You Explore Mars As If You Were Standing Next...
Pan and zoom among 400 images from Curiosity's cameras. If you were standing next to the Mars rover Curiosity, this is what you'd see. Estonian photographer and editor Andrew Bodrov stitched together...
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Scientists Build Hollow Virus For Cheaper Vaccines
Illustration of the synthetic exterior of a foot-and-mouth disease virusFrom a video by Diamond Light SourceThis foot-and-mouth virus has a stable exterior, but no genetic material in its interior....
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