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Big Pic: Happy Earth Day From Space!
Happy Earth Day From SpaceSpaceXCan't beat that view. SpaceX tweeted this photo today showing its Dragon capsule berthed to the International Space Station. Earth is beautiful every day, and you can't...
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This Amazing Virtual Water Will Make You Want To Go For A Swim [Video]
Virtual water that actually looks close to water Water almost never looks quite like water when it's rendered: there a lot of variables involved with a fluid splashing around, after all. But this...
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Did You Seriously Get Funding To Study Whether Instagram Is All Selfies?
This Weasel Is Not Food Nor A SelfieKristina BlomToday in "Did You Seriously Get Funding To Study That?" a group of Swedish researchers performed a study to see if people try hard at Instagram. Good...
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This Antarctic Research Base Actually Looks Pretty Cozy
Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz Triptyque ArquiteturaNice place, bad neighborhood Brazil's Comandante Ferraz Antarctic Station, a permanent research base operated by the country's Navy, was...
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Radioactive Gases Detected From North Korea's Recent Nuclear Bomb Test
Modeled Xenon Plume CTBTO scientists used a computer model to calculate how much radioactive xenon gas different areas would see after an underground nuclear test in North Korea. This shows the...
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Rich People Aren't Entirely Awful And Selfish: Study
Money Man401(K) 2013 via FlickrBusiness majors who admitted they'd jump at the chance to take a $2 million insider trading tip still were willing to stop and help a victim in need. Investment bankers...
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The Math: What Life On Kepler-62e Would Be Like
An artist's rendering of Kepler-62f NASA Ames/JPL-CaltechIt's just like living on Earth, only you weigh 90 pounds more! Scientists recently located two exoplanets orbiting in the Kepler-62 star system...
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Reddit Is More Dangerous Than The Syrian Electronic Army's Hackers
Response to Hacked Tweetsvia TwitterHow a high-profile hack fell apart within seconds, and why good intentions are often the most efficient way to destroy lives. About an hour ago, the Associated...
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Shedding New Light On Basement Marijuana Technology
Plants Under A Red Sun Medical marijuana grown using LED growlights. GrowingGreenLEDOne man's experience with LED grow lights As of 2013, 24 states and Washington, DC, have either legalized marijuana...
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Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste...
Ultra-High-Efficiency Galaxy In a galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54, nearly all of the gas has been driven to the central core of the galaxy and ignited into stars. This is a composite of images from the...
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Can Oxytocin Get Me A Boyfriend?
Can the hormone oxytocin make you fall in love?© Valentyn Oleinikov | Dreamstime.comA personal experiment with the love hormone We met up at a dim sum place in Chinatown. He smiled when he saw me, and...
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Brain Cells Will Control The Power Plants Of The Future
Neuron Controlled Clemson University engineer Kumar Venayagamoorthy with his neuron-controlled power plant simulation. Clemson UniversityLiving neurons are coming up with better solutions for...
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We've Finally Figured Out What Makes LED Bulbs So Inefficient
An LED Mystery Researchers measured the energy spectrum of electrons emitted by an LED and found that the signature of energetic electrons matched those produced by the Auger process. École...
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FYI: Why Aren't Hovercraft More Useful?
The HovercraftDean Conger/National Geographic/Getty ImagesBlame the skirts. The inventor of the modern hovercraft, Christopher Cockerell, once imagined that his vehicle would cross the Atlantic at 100...
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A Solar Dish That Makes Electricity And Fresh Water
Prototype Solar DishFrom "A Solar Energy Breakthrough" by IBMSocialMedia on YouTubeA technological twofer! It's not exactly a solar panel. It's more like a solar dish. And not only does it generate...
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Big Pic: There's A Penis Drawing On Mars, You Guys
Opportunity's TracksNASACommence giggling We did it, everyone! A space program decades in the making has culminated with this: a penis on the surface of Mars.An intrepid Reddit user spotted the...
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New Chemical Trick To Make Fertilizer That Won't Explode
Sandia National Laboratories chemical engineer Vicki Chavez with Kevin FlemingSandia National LaboratoriesIt turns out another industry's trash is fertilizer's lifesaver. The same chemical that makes...
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A Library Of Every Drug That Could Ever Exist
All the Drugs A new computer program allows the mining of chemical libraries that do not yet exist, providing a near-infinite source of novel compounds that could be developed into new drugs. Virshup...
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Are Electric Vehicles Really Zero-Emission?
2011 Nissan Leaf Prototype As the owner of the first Nissan Leaf electric car sold in Maine, it is my pleasure to give slide presentations to various groups about the history, benefits, and personal...
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New Bird Flu Spreads: What You Need To Know
In A Meat Market Caged domestic pigeons in a meat market in eastern China. This photo was taken in 2009, in a location several hours north by car from the provinces where confirmed H7N9 cases have...
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