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The Week In Numbers: Size Of Saturn's Hurricane, Cost Of A...
Hurricane on Saturn This spectacular, vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark...
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The World's Smallest Drone Is Like A Tiny Unswattable Bug
The pesky insect of the future Harvard researchers have developed Robo-fly, the smallest flying robot out there: it's tinier than a quarter and weighs about one-tenth of a paperclip. Using electric...
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2013 Invention Awards: Ballast Bulb
GravityLightGraham MurdochA household lamp powered by a bag of rocks. More than 780 million people rely on kerosene to light their homes. But the fuel is pricey and is toxic when burned-not to mention...
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Why We Can't Stop Eating Frosting From The Can
There's a scientific reason she's going to eat all the frostingDreamstimeYour brain makes you unconsciously like caloric foods even if they're not delicious, study finds. You know when you're eating...
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An Animation Of Every Recorded Meteorite Blast In History
Big One IncomingCarlo ZapponiPeople didn't start really noticing rocks from the sky until after the Enlightenment. Earth is bombarded all the time by space rocks, but people rarely notice them--only...
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Q&A: Kickstarter Co-Founder Yancey Strickler
Yancey StricklerKickstarterMost independent inventors don't have bottomless bank accounts. To fund their dreams, many innovators are appealing to strangers on the Web for help. Kickstarter co-founder...
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Why The U.S. National Institute Of Mental Health Plans To Abandon The DSM
Proportions of the HeadLeonardo da VinciThe National Institute of Mental Health published a statement last week about a shift in the way it will conduct research. The U.S. National Institute of Mental...
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New Device Detects Asbestos In Real-Time, With Lasers And Magnets
Light scattering with a laserPaul Kaye, University of Hertfordshire, UKWe can all breathe a little easier. Asbestos is an insidious killer, with a nasty habit of being most deadly when it is least...
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Los Alamos Lab Has Had A Secret Quantum Internet For Two Years
A Rusty Padlock Quantum cryptography might even be more effective than this! Wikimedia CommonsQuantum networking could enable the most secure communication possible. The central principle of quantum...
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High Schoolers Build DIY Sensor-Activated Locker For Wheelchair-Bound Classmate
School Lockerskcphotos, Dreamstime.comIt pops open at the wave of a hand. A couple high school seniors in Michigan recently rigged a junior's locker to open with the wave of a hand, the Livingston...
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How The World's First 3-D Printed Gun Works
The Liberator 3-D Printed GunDefense DistributedDefense Distributed creates a fully functional gun, with 3-D printed plastic parts. It started with a crowdfunding project last August. Now, nine months...
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Are These Fragments From The Mysterious Forest-Flattening 1908 Tunguska...
During breakfast on June 30, 1908, a man named S.B. Semenov was sitting on a porch at a northern Russian trading post when the sky burst into flames. He looked up and saw the heavens appear to split...
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News Analysis: The 3-D Printing Of The Future Promises Far More Than Just Guns
The Liberator 3-D Printed GunDefense DistributedWhat happens to anti-gun legislation when people can just make weapons in their homes? The Liberator, the 3-D printed gun that we reported on earlier...
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This Weird Hairy Thing Is A Freaking Bat Tongue
This Is A Bat Tongue Hovering at a flower demands enormous energy. Blood flow in their tongue tips allows bats to extend hair-like papillae instantly, increasing the tongue's length and surface area...
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Sandy-Devastated Town Will Ditch Landlines Forever
Telephone lines in Cambridgeshire, UKKeith Edkins via Wikimedia CommonsIt's now wireless-or-bust for residents of Mantoloking, N.J. Verizon will not rebuild its copper-line telephone network in...
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Guys: Holding A Guitar Makes You More Attractive
Keb' Mo'Wikimedia CommonsEvery kid in high school learning guitar to get a girlfriend was actually right.Single dudes: Are you holding a guitar at this moment? If not, you are not reaching your Maximum...
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The Impossible Dream Of The Hindenburg: How Airships Were Going To Change The...
The Hindenburg on fire at Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937Nationaal Archief via Wikimedia Commons76 years ago today, the Hindenburg crashed over New Jersey, killing 35 people and ending the era of the...
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Google Glass Isn't A Surveillance Device
Google Glass Sans PersonGoogleFears about Google Glass's surveillance potential are, if not unfounded, at least a little misguided. A petition created late last week on the White House's very serious...
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Mexican Cartels Control Pot Farms As Far North As Washington State
Cartel InfluenceScreenshot from the National PostA new graphic maps the influence of Mexican drug cartels in the U.S. You know Mexican drug cartels are responsible for terrible violence south of the...
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2013 Invention Awards: Firm Footing
Mike SchultzCourtesy FoxA prosthetic limb that puts athletes back in the game. During a professional snowmobiling race in 2008, Mike Schultz lost control of his machine while speeding over a ragged...
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