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Humans Can Feel Empathy Toward Robots
Brain scans show we feel bad for robots when they're mistreated. Humans feel bad when they see other humans being mistreated, but do we feel the same way about robots?A team of researchers tested that...
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Why I Let My Students Cheat On Their Game Theory Exam
Cheaters always prosper?DreamstimeTeaching people game theory is good. Making them live it is even better, says UCLA professor Peter Nonacs. On test day for my Behavioral Ecology class at UCLA, I...
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New App Gives You An Automatic Nosejob
Pixtr At WorkFrom "Pixtr Demo" by Aviv Gadot on YouTubeThe company's tagline is, "Putting your best face forward." Facial recognition technology helps Facebook to guess who's in pictures and, in a...
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How A Millionaire Sold Fake Bomb Detectors To Governments All Over The World
Iraqi Soldier with an ADE 651 If there is a bomb in that car, that device won't detect it. U.S. Navy via wikimedia commonsThe British businessman's fraud likely killed many soldiers who relied on the...
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People Who Beat The Odds Aren't Brilliant, Just Lucky
Money Man401(K) 2013 via FlickrSucceeding once or twice on a longshot doesn't make someone a savant. Overall, that person's predictions will probably be less accurate than average. If a person made a...
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A Show About 1960s NASA From The Mad Men Team? We Hope The Rumor's True
Apollo 11 Crew And NixonWikimedia CommonsSkinny ties in space. According to Florida Today, some unspecified writers from the show Mad Men are "working on a potential TV series" to be set in Cocoa...
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Million-Neuron Artificial Brain Works In Real Time
Neurogrid Graduate students Sam Fok and Alex Neckar hold the new brain model. Samir MenonA smaller, cheaper, faster brain model This new computer model of a brain has one million neurons and works just...
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Oxford Institute Forecasts The Possible Doom Of Humanity
What's the greatest threat to our species' continued existence? Take a look in the mirror. Most of us are content to just worry about the future of humanity in our spare time, but there's an entire...
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The Most Immersive Virtual-Reality System Yet
Oculus Rift (developers)Sam KaplanIn your face! Palmer Luckey built his first virtual-reality (VR) headset for a simple reason: Every attempt he'd seen, including his own collection of 46 pairs of...
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Harvard's Primate Research Lab To Close
Cotton-Top Tamarin A cotton-top tamarin, one of the two species of primate used by the facility for medical research. Wikimedia CommonsHarvard University announced yesterday that it would shut down its...
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Broadcast Your Drunken Data To The World With A Smartphone Breathalyzer
BACtrack Mobile BreathalyzerThinkGeekBecause what the world really needed was another way to post pictures of your inebriated tomfoolery. Whether you're in a contest with your buddies over who's the...
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How The New $100 Bill Will Foil Counterfeiters
The New $100newmoney.govThe most complicated $100 bill yet For as long as there has been money, there've been people trying to make fake money. In the U.S., the latest effort to stop counterfeiting...
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Metamaterial Can Squirt A Magnetic Field Through A Hose
Magnetic Hose The field of a magnetic source, in this case a point dipole with field lines in white, can be transferred an arbitrary distance as shown in diagram b, using a slab of ideal material...
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Gallery: Animals Can Suffer Human Diseases Too
Koala Bears Get ChlamydiaWikimedia CommonsZoonotic diseases can go from us to them. Click to launch the photo galleryThis week we found out that fruit flies can get depressed--in at least one...
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The Tangled Logic Of Time Travel In Movies [Infographic]
Time Travel in MoviesMr. DalliardThis flowchart contains spoilers! This infographic by Mr. Dalliard documents the nature, logic, and scale of time travel in film. Most of the terms are straightforward,...
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Canon's New imageFORMULA P-208 "Scan-tini" Mobile Document Scanner
Canon imageFORMULA P-208Personal Solutions For Scanning And Sharing On The Go. Smart, Stylish, And Easy To Connect. This ultra-compact personal document scanner measures a mere 2-inches wide and a tad...
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Humpback Whales Learn New Tricks By Watching Their Friends
Humpback Whale Lunge FeedingCourtesy of Jennifer Allen/Whale Center of New EnglandBehaviors are spread through cultural transmission in animals other than humans and non-human primates. There are a lot...
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How It Works: The Thermal Camera That Found The Boston Bomber
Dzhokar Tsarnaev in a boat in Watertown, Mass. Image taken by a FLIR camera on a Massachusetts State Police helicopter. Massachusetts State PoliceYou can't hide from the infrared eye of the law. The...
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We're Losing The Battle Against Wild Pigs
Ich Bin Ein Berliner Pigvia Modern FarmerFrom Berlin to Mississippi, feral pigs are proving to be one of the most efficient and dangerous invasive species ever known. Smart, industrious, voracious and...
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The White House's Latest Drug Policy Plan Is Actually Based On Science
Obama Loves Science President Obama at the 2012 White House Science Fair YouTubeAmerica's drug czar has announced that the nation's drug policy should be governed by neuroscience, not politics. In the...
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