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Researchers Trace Languages Of Billions Back To One Ancient Ancestor
Where does the world live?Grecu Mihail Alin | Dreamstime.comAt the end of the last ice age, a single language fractured, until it became the languages we speak across Asia and Europe. At least 15,000...
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Buzz Aldrin Wants To Send People On A One-Way Trip To Mars
The Second Man on the MoonBuzzAldrin.comIn a wide-ranging interview with PopularScience.com, Aldrin talks about a mission to Mars, 34 years of sobriety and the future of American leadership in space....
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Oculus Rift Game Simulates What It's Like To Get Your Head Chopped Off. For Fun.
"Character unlocked: Marie Antoinette." Disunion is a guillotine simulator created in two days by a team of three as part of the Exile Gam Jam, a game create-a-thon in Denmark. With a set of Oculus...
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FDA Wants Warning Labels On Tanning Beds
Indoor TanningU.S. Food and Drug AdministrationIt also wants tanning lamps reclassified as moderate risk devices. Hey, kids! The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants you to know that it doesn't...
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2013 Invention Awards: Cardboard Bike
Cardboard BikeCourtesy I.G. Cardboard TechnologiesA $30 ride made of recycled packaging, bottles, and car parts. One day in 2009, Israeli engineer Izhar Gafni sat in a quiet library designing a machine...
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New Meat-Eating Plant Species Found In Japan
New Sundew SpeciesMikio Watanabe"Meat-eating," not "man-eating." Still cool though. According to Japan Times, a new species of carnivorous plant has been found in Aichi Prefecture, on the...
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NASA Scientists Observe The Brightest Explosion Ever
Gamma-ray Burst (Artist's Conception)Wikimedia CommonsLook at a lightbulb. Now imagine 35 billion lightbulbs. If you weren't looking at the constellation Leo very early on Saturday morning, you...
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Vaccine Halts Heroin Addiction In Rats
Drugs Against DrugsNational Cancer Institute (NCI)The treatment is now ready for human trials. A vaccine to treat heroin addiction has proven effective in keeping drug-addicted rats from relapsing in a...
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Dear Schools: Stop Treating Science-Curious Kids Like Criminals
Crime Scene?DreamstimeWe shouldn't punish students who are trying to understand how their world works. On April 22, Kiera Wilmot, a 16-year-old public school student in Bartow, Florida did what any kid...
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What Middle-Aged Men Are Watching On YouTube In Your City [Infographic]
Viral VideoWe're sharing a lot of True Blood trailers.YouTube TrendsOne nation, under True Blood. What are middle-aged men watching on YouTube in your city? With the new YouTube Trends Map, you can now...
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Big Pic: The Milky Way's Black Hole Devours Hot Gas
Artist's rendering of the center of the Milky WayVery hot gas orbits the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, and it may be about to fall in.ESA-C. CarreauChomp chomp, guuulp. Later...
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Watch: 2 Months Of Breaking Antarctic Ice In 5 Minutes
Driving a super-powerful ice-breaking vessel through huge sheets of ice has never looked so serene. To delve deep into the arctic or antarctic regions, you've got to have an icebreaker. Icebreakers are...
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New Software Teaches Photocopiers How To Grade Papers
Printer-GraderXeroxThe software should be ready for schools by the 2013-2014 school year. Talk about an upgrade. Xerox plans to introduce software this year that would transform certain combination...
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The LHC Might Have Created The Smallest Drop Of Liquid Ever
CMSThe Compact Muon Solenoid, one of the two large particle physics detectors on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.CERNA tiny drop could have big implications for our understanding of particle...
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How The CIA Tried To Turn A Cat Into A Cyborg Spy
Frankenkitty!DreamstimeMisadventure though it was, the agency's Operation Acoustic Kitty was a visionary idea 50 years ahead of its time. In the 1960s, the Central Intelligence Agency recruited an...
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7 Amazing Images Of The Future, From 1947
Dreams of the future, from 1947Popular Science archivesFrom the Popular Science archive: Weather control, looped cities, moon microwaves, and more! Click here to enter the galleryWhen Popular Science...
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Could We Be Driving/Piloting This Flying Car In A Few Years?
Terrafugia TF-XTerrafugiaVertical takeoff. Hybrid power. Automatic landing. See it in action as it flies and drives. We've been following the progress of Terrafugia, the Massachusetts-based creator of...
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2013 Invention Awards: Fume Fighter
Welding HelmetSam KaplanA welding helmet to make metalwork safer. Within his first 30 minutes on the job at an aluminum factory in 1999, metalworker Michael Buckman inhaled so many noxious fumes he was...
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Which Animal Has The Most Extreme Sense of Hearing?
The Animal KingdomWikimedia CommonsYou might be surprised at the answer! Or you might not. I don't know your depth of knowledge of animal sensory organs. Our old friend, the bat, is the king of extreme...
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10 Companies That Seem Willing To Violate The Law To Sell Your Data
Data ServersFederal Bureau of InvestigationIn a sting operation, the companies appeared willing to sell data in violation of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. A "sting operation" (I'm not sure it took...
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