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How Drones Will Fight Poachers To Save Endangered Species
The World Wildlife Fund wants to thwart international crime with robots. Here is a complicated problem: Endangered elephants live in isolated nature preserves under the watch of woefully underfunded...
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How Bats Recognize Friends In The Dark
Just Hanging Out Bats recognize the voices of other bats they hang out with, according to a new study.Courtesy Hanna KasteinThe ability to recognize individuals by sound helps bats stay connected in...
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What Chefs David Chang And Traci Des Jardins Think Of Space Food
Verdict: "Some very questionable flavor profiles" Two of the nation's finest chefs were invited to NASA's Space Food Systems Laboratory by Tested.com to sample the meals served on the International...
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U.S. Navy Spends $37 Billion On A Ship That Barely Works
Littoral Combat ShipU.S. Navy via wikimedia commonsAnd Navy brass have known about the problems for a year, according to new revelations. The Littoral Combat Ship was supposed to anchor the Navy of the...
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8 Signs That Girl You Met On The Internet Is Fake
Does she say she's Catholic?She might be a fake.DreamstimeLessons from a "sugar daddy" dating website That widowed Ukrainian engineer you just met on your favorite dating website? She's probably a...
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FBI To Internet Providers: Spy For Us Or Face A $25,000 Fine
FBI HeadquartersAude, via Wikimedia CommonsExisting wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn't capture the nuances of modern internet use. Here's how the FBI plans to get around it. A new FBI...
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Found: Proof That Seafloor Bacteria Ate Radioactive Supernova Dust
Ka-boom!The supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a star that blew up about 300 years ago.NASAMicrobes on the ocean bottom ate iron forged in the heart of a dying star The late Carl Sagan said it best on his...
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A California State Senator Is Trying To Outlaw 3-D Printed Guns
The Liberator 3D Printed Gun, disassembledThe only vital metal component? A nail, used as a firing pin.Defense DistributedHow do you ban the coupling of a digital file and a legal technology?...
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2013 Invention Awards: Family Flier
Synergy IllustrationNick KaloterakisA homebuilt airplane designed with maximum efficiency in mind. John McGinnis thinks ordinary families would rather skip the airport and fly themselves. So he is...
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Happy 50th Birthday, Lamborghini!
Lamborghini LP 500, 1971Popular Science archivesOur favorite Lambos through the decades, from the Popular Science archive. Fifty years ago this week, Italian mechanic and tractor maker Ferruccio...
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Amp Your Ride
Get A GripSprings and tape help the generator wheel contact the rim.Courtesy Doug CostlowCharge electronics on the go with a bike-mounted USB hub. I'm a mechanical engineer who loves bicycling. When...
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See Gravity Bend Light In New Telescope Images
Einstein Cross ConfigurationThese two images show one example of a gravitational lens. The light from one quasar has been distorted so that the quasar appears four times. In the center of the four is...
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Whoops: Moon Dust From Apollo 11 Lost In Storage For Years
Moon DustMarilee BaileyThe dust was rediscovered last month in a UC Berkeley warehouse. You'd think moon dust would be something people would keep an eye on since, you know, you have to go to the...
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Would You Give This Company $250 For A Survivalist's E-Ink Android Tablet?
Earl TabletEarlEarl is a new kind of tablet--designed specifically for use in the wild. Android tablets are mostly dull; Asus, Samsung, Sony, and the rest are typically just pumping out versions of the...
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Time-Lapse GIFs Show Earth Transforming Over 25 Years
Satellite images from every year since 1984 show the march of human progress-and the retreat of nature. Starting in the 1980s, Alaska's Columbia Glacier began retreating, shrinking from 41 miles long...
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Oil From The Deepwater Horizon Spill Sickened Fish For At Least A Year
Oily Fish EmbryoThis Gulf killifish embryo was exposed to oiled sediments from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill. Three years later, killifish continue to show health defects related to oil toxicity...
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FYI: Why Are There No Native Monkeys In North America?
Squirrel MonkeyThe squirrel monkey, a New World monkey, would be pretty adorable to have perched on your white picket fence. Alas, it is not to be.Wikimedia CommonsIf only they had developed monkey...
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Watch The Ring Of Fire Eclipse Starting At 5:30 P.M. EST
Ring of FireWikimedia CommonsFor those outside the southern hemisphere, a livestream will show it in its fiery glory (without the risk of eye damage). Stargazers in parts of Australia will get to...
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This Sound Camera Could Help You Fix Your Car
Sound CameraKAISTMeaning it can see where exactly where that weird noise in your car engine is coming from. You're driving around, when you hear a weird rattling noise coming out of your car. Even if...
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Snapchat Is More Important Than Hacks And Sexting Teens
Snapchat: Fun!SnapchatSnapchat is much more than just an encrypted messaging service. It's a form of communication that gives us a break from the way we usually communicate. Snapchat, a messaging...
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