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How 4 Nerds Discovered The DNA Helix 60 Years Ago Today
Letter Francis Crick wrote to his son in 1953Christie's via io9From the Popular Science archive, the story of how Watson, Crick, Wilkins, and Franklin worked out the structure of life. "DNA: It Calls...
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How Stopping Deforestation Would Make Us Richer [Infographic]
Deforestation By The NumbersJan Willem TulpBad news for the timber industry but great news for tourism Deforestation definitely isn't doing nature any favors, but at least there's a financial incentive...
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A City Made From Chewing Gum And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Gum City French artist Jeremy Laffon stacked thousands of pieces of gum together to make what you'd imagine Robert Moses made when he was a 9-year-old: a city composed entirely of (unused!) chewing...
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Parachuting Canister Detects Chemical Weapons
Global Strike System SensorU.S. ArmyAn Army research project wants to cover a battlefield with dozens of soda-can-sized sensors to detect invisible threats. Army researchers at the Edgewood Chemical...
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U.S. Plans To Remove Gray Wolf From Endangered Species List
Delisted?Gary Kramer, USFWSThe controversial predator will lose federal protection in the lower 48 states. America's gray wolves are moving off the endangered species list, the Los Angeles Times has...
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Amazon.com To Battle Governments Of Brazil And Peru For The .Amazon Domain
Amazon Rainforest From AboveWikimedia CommonsShould http://www.home.amazon/ teach you about piranhas, or let you buy bulk toilet paper? In 2011, ICANN, the organization in charge of the internet's...
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This Device Turns A Charcoal Stove Into A Cell Phone Charger
A Fire-powered Cell Phone ChargerPoint Source PowerAlso it might provide electricity to the undeveloped world. VOTO is a new device that turns fire into a power source for cell phones. Now, where...
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Does Summer Always Get You Down? You Might Be A Rat
Rats get SAD in the summerPeter Boylan via Wikimedia Commons For nocturnal rodents, long days prompt long faces. During the short, dark winter days, many humans suffer from seasonal affective disorder,...
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Megaport
The Most Efficient Cargo HandlerCourtesy Port of Rotterdam; Inset A: Courtesy APM Terminals; Inset B: Paul Wootton; Inset C: Courtesy APM Terminals; Inset D: Courtesy Port of RotterdamThe...
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Largest Current Study Of AIDS Vaccine Shut Down Because It Doesn't Work
HIV VirusC. Goldsmith / CDCIn fact, patients injected with the vaccine actually developed HIV more often than those who were given a placebo. Eep. The largest current study of a potential AIDS vaccine,...
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Inside The Mind Of A Scientist Who Made Up More Than 50 Studies
Pseudoscience strikes againWikimedia CommonsCheating in science When you hear about well-regarded scientists making up data in their studies, it's easy to wonder, What were they thinking?A New York...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Big-Eared Wrinklenose?
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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How Giant Concrete Balls Could Make Wind Power More Efficient
Offshore PowerHans Hillewaert, WikipediaGreat balls of power! Wind power is pretty great: One doesn't need to do much but build turbines and capture the energy from a passing breeze. But, like what...
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These QR-Code-Inspired Children's Pajamas Are Apparently A Real Thing
This is not the future we signed up for! "Gee," the hyper-intelligent children of this Brave New World of ours must often think, "I sure wish Mommy and Daddy had a smartphone-based way of reading me...
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Big Pic: What A Supersonic Aircraft Model Looks Like In A Wind Tunnel
Supersonic ModelNASA/Quentin SchwinnTake a look into a supersonic wind tunnel at NASA This is a 1.79 percent scale model of a concept supersonic aircraft designed by The Boeing Company. You're seeing...
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Student-Designed NASA Rover Is An 800-Pound, Solar-Powered Tank
Designed by engineering students, the GROVER is about to start starting exploring the wilds of Greenland. Last year, satellite data showed 97 percent of Greenland's surface ice had turned to slush in...
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What Snooty Beer Should I Drink? [Infographic]
BeerMapper Style Guide Each beer style is color coded, and styles are grouped roughly together by how close nearest neighbors are to each other. Check out the spread of lime-green. Pilsner as a style...
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Gecko-Like Drone Can Land On Walls And Ceilings
AVL Microquad Clings to a Ceilingvia Autonomous Vehicle LaboratoryThis quadrotor uses a nature-inspired, dry adhesive to cling to surfaces for extra-covert spying. This drone could become the...
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Watch A Super-Dexterous Robot Hand Use Tweezers
A Robotic Hand Grasping A BatteryiRobotIt can also pick up batteries and basketballs, use a key to open a door, and operate a drill! Robots, while awesome, tend to be clumsy in unpredictable human...
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Ladies, Are You Smearing Toxic Metals On Your Lips Every Day?
Metal Mouthjerine via FlickrA new study finds potentially harmful levels of heavy metals in commonly used lipsticks and glosses. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley and the Oakland,...
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