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Twitter Is The New Police Scanner
Cambridge Police Department feed tweets from April 15th, 2013, responding to suspicious object reports and issuing all-clears. TwitterAfter the explosions yesterday at the Boston Marathon, police...
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Your Rented Computer Can No Longer Legally Spy On You
Computer With WebcamCropped from a photo by jbhalper on Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Previously, some rent-to-own companies would log customers' keystrokes and snap pictures using their webcams. According to...
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Law Enforcement Thinks The Boston Bombs Were Constructed From Pressure Cookers
A Pressure CookerWikimedia CommonsAccording to NBC News, law enforcement is now saying that the bombs used in the attack on the Boston Marathon were constructed of pressure cookers filled with...
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DARPA Unveils Teeny Infrared Camera With 5-Micron Pixels
5 Micron Pixel Infrared CameraDARPAThe secret to fighting a war at night? Tiny, tiny, tiny pixels. Human eyesight is such a limiting factor in military missions that DARPA is trying to fix it. Not with...
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A Single-Cell Genome
Awesome! Now What?Don Farrall/Getty ImagesAWESOME! Because one cell has so little DNA, scientists typically pool together millions of cells to sequence a genome. Last December, Xiaoliang Sunney Xie and...
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Why We Stand Where We Do In An Elevator
Step On InSteve Snodgrass via FlickrElevator riders tend to arrange themselves into mini social hierarchies. Rebekah Rousi, a Ph.D. student in cognitive science, conducted an ethnographic study of...
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The Chemistry of Nitrous-Powered, Pot-Infused Liquor
Green DragonPaul AdamsHow one New York bartender fused alcohol and marijuana forever Behind the bars of some of the nation's finest cocktail joints, there are secrets: secret recipes, secret bottles...
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We Could Eat Trees: Scientists Turn Inedible Plant Cellulose Into Starchy Snack
Turning plant byproducts into digestible carbs could feed more people. Someday, it will be be summer again and it will be time for fresh sweet corn. In the future, you might be able to eat the whole...
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Wearing A Kilt Could Make Your Sperm Stronger
KiltsJamie McCaffreyTemperature regulation is the key to fertility. Temperature affects how much sperm a man makes, so there's been speculation that the freedom offered by a kilt can increase...
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Nanosponges In Your Blood Could Soak Up Infections And Poison
Nanosponge Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have invented a "nanosponge" capable of safely removing a broad class of toxins from the bloodstream, including toxins produced by MRSA,...
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EuropaCity Is The Ultra-Green Mall Of The Future
EuropaCityBIGImagine a mall. Now imagine a mall in the year 2150. The design firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), along with a few added team members (Tess, Transsolar, Base, Transitec, and Michel Forgue)...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Fuzzy Sniffler?
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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Everything You Need To Know About Ricin, The Poison Mailed To President Obama
Ricin (on Breaking Bad)via Breaking Bad WikiRicin is one of the most poisonous substances on Earth, it's scarily easy to make, and somebody is mailing it to the President and at least one U.S. senator....
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation Removes Craving For Cigarettes
Smoking KillsChalliyil Eswaramangalath Vipin via WikimediaDon't worry, it doesn't hurt! Scientists at Medical University of South Carolina temporarily blunted cigarette cravings among smokers by...
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Audi Wants Its Cars To Predict Where Traffic Will Be
Traffic JamepSos.deSide-stepping traffic by mining data At the GPU Technology Conference 2013 show in San Jose, Audi announced some of its plans for its Cars of the Future, The Register reports. One of...
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FYI: Can Humans Get High On Catnip?
Samantha J. Kitty fiending for some catnipEvan Kafka via Suzanne LaBarreRelated: Can cats get high on marijuana? While cats may feel effects from marijuana-no word on whether Sir Harry Paus actually...
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5 Ways Drones Could Help In A Disaster Like The Boston Marathon Bombing
Plus three robots that are already saving lives. Yesterday, the President of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Michael Toscano told U.S. News: "Whether it is in response to a...
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Supercomputers Calculate Structure Of Bones On The Molecular Level
Molecular Look This illustration shows a molecule of collagen (top) next to a molecule of a crystal of hydroxyapatite (bottom). Image courtesy of the researchersBone fibers contain an odd couple of...
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Humans Share Microbiomes With Their Dogs, Study Finds
All in the familyNational Park ServiceYou have a lot more in common with Fido than you think. You know you share genes with your biological parents and kids, but what about microbes? A new study finds...
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The Seven Most Incredible Telescopes In Existence
Gemini Time LapseCourtesy GeminiThe biggest, smallest, and most robotic stargazing tools. When China completes its newest telescope project in 2016, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio...
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