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Pick An App Just By Thinking About It With Samsung's Mind-Controlled Tablet
Tablet Accessory? A woman wears an EEG cap for a Sandia National Laboratories experiment. To use the mind-reading tablet below, people must wear an EEG cap, though a slightly different one that doesn't...
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What Drugs You Like Depends On Where You Go Dancing [Infographic]
Drugs Used In The Last 12 MonthsMixMagA graphical look at clubgoers' preferences in the US and UK MixMag's annual Global Drug Survey came out yesterday, and it has the breakdown. The survey asked...
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How Physics Can Help Solve Crimes
Blood SplatterNyki M, via wikimedia commonsThe key to better blood splatter analysis? Better science. It turns out that the best way to understand the science of how blood splatters is, well, science....
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The Week In Numbers: Homes For Boston Marathoners, Kilt-Wearers Without...
Second explosion at the Boston MarathonFrom a photo by Dan Lampariello5,037: the number of Massachusetts residents who offered their homes to people stranded after the Boston Marathon bombing5 microns:...
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Don't Be Afraid Of Your DNA
Science Runs Free With Our DNARyan SnookPrivacy is a pipe dream. Let's start saving lives. In January, scientists scared the world by using public information to find the names behind five people's...
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3-D Print Your Doodles With This New Kickstarter Project
Plastic cat made with Doodle3DDoodle3DSoftware turns simple line drawings into 3-D objects. A new project on Kickstarter allows amateur artists to 3-D print their simple 2-D doodles. The Doodle3D Wifi...
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FYI: Is Ecstasy Safer When It's Purer?
EcstasyDEAIs pure MDMA "absolutely" safe, as a Canadian health official claimed last year? Last summer, British Columbia's top health official caused an uproar when he called the risks of MDMA -- the...
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Why Airports Always Lose Your Bag [Infographic]
Just never, ever transfer and you might be okay! You're heading home for the holidays or vacation when--whoops!--your bag falls into the clutches of the airline underbelly. What happened?Well, it...
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FYI: How Much Cocaine Can You Fit In Your, Ahem, Body?
Drugs In Machineryvia UK Home OfficeThe science of drug muling The first thing you learn, when investigating drug muling, is that muling is a very common and efficient way of transporting contraband....
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The First Elevated-Pin Braille Smartphone Gets A Prototype
Braille PhoneSumit DagarIncoming text gets translated into braille through little pins, constantly moving up and down to convey what's happening in the phone. With smartphone interaction mostly relying...
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Smoking Pot And Popping THC Pills Combat Pain, Study Finds
Marinol Pills Ten-milligram pills of Marinol, the name-brand pill whose active ingredient is the same as the active chemical in marijuana. U.S. Drug Enforcement AdministrationThis is the first study to...
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Hyundai Made A Flying Car (Sorta)
Flying Car ConceptHyundai via Fox NewsIt is impractical! And cool! And we would like to fly it. For Hyundai's annual Idea Festival--a Wacky Races-style competition where engineers show off the most...
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For God's Sake, Stay Inside During A Gun Fight
Bullet impacts on a building in Angolajlrsousa, via Wikimedia CommonsBullets work way differently in real life than they do in movies. Ever wonder why the people taking cell phone videos of gunfights...
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Dear President Obama: When Will You Stop Talking About Climate Change And...
Petermann Glacier BreakupNASAYou don't even need Congress to enact meaningful reform. Dear Mr. President,I was hoping to get a jump on this Earth Day letter during the weekend, but I fell behind...
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How A Pressure Cooker Bomb Works [Infographic]
It's an older recipe than you'd think. "Contents under pressure may explode" has never been more accurate. Pressure cookers heat food with steam, using increased internal atmospheric pressure to heat...
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Apply Now For A One-Way Trip To Mars
Mars colonyMars OneMars One has begun accepting video applications for a mission to colonize the red planet in 2023. Want to live and die on Mars? Mars One has officially begun its worldwide search for...
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What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Child-Piloted Robot War Machine?
Answer: nothing. Just take the kids to the toy store and everything will be fine. Sakakibara-Kikai is a Japanese robotics manufacturer that specializes in futuristic, semi-outlandish robotic...
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Researchers Treat Lazy Eye With Tetris
TetrisUniversity Of MinnesotaIncreasing brain plasticity with falling blocks The classic game Tetris has been shown to help alleviate some symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, and apparently...
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NASA Just Led The Biggest Hackaton Ever
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds via Space Apps ChallengeThis weekend, NASA led the International Space Apps Challenge, a hackaton to solve the many challenges facing life on earth and in space. It...
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10 Environmental Holidays That Are Cooler Than Earth Day
Swirls of ice off the northern coast of JapanChris Hadfield via TwitterIt's never too early to start planning your Fossil Fools Day party! Sick of dusting off the tie-dye and patchouli every year to...
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