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German Physicist Flies First Manned Electric Multicopter
E-volo Multicopter Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Beate Kern Last October, near Karlsruhe, Germany, Thomas Senkel completed the first manned flight of an electric multicopter,...
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Video: Robotic Lego Forearm Can Wave Hello and Pour You a Drink
Lego Hand Max Shepherd via YouTube A robotic hand made entirely of Legos is one of the most realistic robo-hands we have seen, matching the entire range of motion of a real one. It moves pretty slowly,...
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The All-Electric BMW Active E
BMW Active E BMWYou'll need to rethink the way you drive, literally The ActiveE is BMW's all-new electric vehicle, designed as a ‘beta' version of the forthcoming i3. Based on the swell little 1 Series...
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Free To a Good Home: One Space Telescope, Still In Orbit
Galaxy Evolution Explorer NASA In an unusual move, our cash-strapped space agency is contemplating the donation of one of its still-functional space telescopes. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer mission is...
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A Tribute to the Fifty: A Nine-Story Forging Press That Can Benchpress a...
The Fifty Built by Mesta Machine Company of Pennsylvania, the Fifty stood nine stories tall (four of which are beneath the floor in the image above). Library of Congress At PopSci we've always got our...
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Today's NASA Budget: 'Irrational' Cuts to Planetary Science Mean Mars...
The James Webb Space Telescope NASA NASA's new budget is slated to land on Capitol Hill today, and it's not quite what the space agency was hoping for. President Obama is asking Congress for $17.7...
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Frozen Fruit Flies Come Back to Life
Drosophila Melanogaster Mr.checker via WikimediaFeeding flies a "cryoprotectant" can save them from the cold A larval fruit fly is hatched in the year 2011 and frozen while still pupating, half its...
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How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
The Costa Concordia Rvongher via WikimediaAnd just how much fuel is that? It's been nearly a full month since the Costa Concordia ran aground just off the Tuscan island of Giglio, and after two weeks...
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Robotics Kit Makes Building Robots as Easy as Stacking Blocks
Modular Robotics Cubelets KT06 Kit Claire BenoistCreate robots from square puzzle pieces Building and programming robots is no small feat. Just to get a robot to perform a simple action-say, turning...
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In Midst of Budget Woes, NASA Contemplates a Manned Waypoint In Orbit Near...
The NASA budget that went to Capitol Hill yesterday dashed any plans to initiate new Mars exploration missions in the next few years, but amid the belt-tightening SPACE reports that NASA is exploring...
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Machine Can Tell If Plants' Genes Are Modified By Watching Them Grow
Germinating Seedlings Phytomorph Watching a plant grow and develop roots can be as tedious as ... watching a plant grow. But seeing plant development as it unfolds can expose just what happens to a...
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The Boy Who Played With Fusion
Standout Taylor Wilson moved to suburban Reno with his parents, Kenneth and Tiffany, and his brother Joey to attend Davidson Academy, a school for gifted students. Bryce DuffyTaylor Wilson always...
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NASA's Mars Budget Takes a Beating, Leaving Europe to Fly Joint Missions Solo
ExoMars: The Mars Rover That Likely Will Never Be ESAThe White House wants NASA to collaborate with international partners. But it doesn't want to pay Of the panoply of dollar values and percentages...
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Compound Reinvigorates Classic Antibiotics In Fight Against New Superbacteria
Pneumonia Bacteria Culture Klebsiella pneumoniae are commonly found in the human gastrointestinal tract, and are often the cause of hospital- acquired infections. Wikimedia Commons A new drug compound...
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World's Tiniest Chameleons Found in Madagascar
Smallest Lizard A juvenile Brookesia micra is barely bigger than a match head. Glaw et al/PLoS One This little chameleon is one of four miniature lizards identified in Madagascar, adding to our growing...
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The Most Incredible Toys of 2012
Life-size LEGO Hulk Why so angry? Perhaps because all these apps are stealing your thunder? Corinne IozzioPopSci's top picks of Toy Fair 2012 (or why you need an iPhone to have any fun anymore) As one...
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Video: The Swiss are Developing a Family of Small Satellites to Tidy Up Junk...
CleanSpace One, Chasing Down a Cubesat EPFL The growing space junk problem in various orbits around the Earth gets plenty of ink these days, particularly when the ISS has to fire its thrusters to dodge...
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Video: Coffee-Filled Robot Paw Learns How to Throw
Throwing Darts John Amend, Cornell University Our favorite grippy robot fist, the balloon filled with coffee grounds, has graduated from grabbing to throwing. Its developers at Cornell University and...
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Video: PopSci's Ultimate Robot Dance-Off
The Contestants From left: Mattel Fijit Friend "Willa", Tosy DiscoRobo, BeatBots MyKeepon Dan Bracaglia (3)So they think they can dance? Three robots bust a move to try to win your vote, and be crowned...
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New Law Opens Civilian American Skies to UAVs, Starting In Just 90 Days
More Drones are Coming to U.S. Airspace U.S. Department of Homeland SecurityFirst responders will be cleared to operate small drones in U.S. airspace in just three months Just a week after Congress...
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