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Did Earth And The Moon Get Their Water From The Same Place?
EarthriseNASA/Apollo 8The water may have already been on Earth when the moon was sheared away from it. Since a suite of spacecraft confirmed abundant water on the moon in the past few years, scientists...
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U.S. State Department Tells Defense Distributed To Take Down 3-D Printed Gun...
The Liberator 3-D Printed GunDefense DistributedDefense Distributed, the Texas company that created the plans for the Liberator, a 3-D-printed gun, have received a letter to take the plans down from...
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DARPA To Scientists: Find A Better Way To Study Chemical Weapons
Biological agent entering a cellDARPAThe agency wants researchers to invent a technology that can determine, in just 30 days, how a new chemical or biological attack works. The U.S. Defense Advanced...
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Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson On Being Told To Remove 3-D Printed Gun...
Cody Wilson tests the 3-D Printed GunDefense Distributed100,000 downloads just might prove him right. Earlier today we reported that Defense Distributed, an organization that recently released...
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2013 Invention Awards: Smart Ball
The Bounce Imaging ExplorerSam KaplanA wireless data-gathering grenade to toss into danger. After an earthquake devastated Haiti in 2010, search-and-rescue teams descended upon Port-au-Prince to look...
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What Cannibals Could Teach Us About Evolution
Fruit flyDreamstimeThree recent studies provide a glimpse into nature's most gruesome diet--and what it reveals about evolution. In the past few decades, scientists studying the eating habits of...
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Women Don't Like Hearing Other Women Complain About Their Bodies
Don't Talk About How Fat These Make You FeelDreamstime"OMG I'm so fat" is just as annoying as you thought it was. Women who talk about eating, exercise or their bodies in a negative way--what...
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College Students Make First-Ever Successful Flight And Landing Of A Concrete...
Concrete Airplane Safe On the GroundTyler Pojanowski (left) and David Haberman (right) designed, built and recently flew and landed this 18-pound concrete airplane, making aeronautical history.South...
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Curiosity Wakes Up To Drill This Bumpy Rock
About To Get DrilledThis patch of bedrock, called "Cumberland," has been selected as the second target for drilling by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The favored location for drilling is in the lower...
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FYI: Why Do Old People Get So Hairy?
Hair, hair, everywhereDreamstimeScientists explain what causes hair to grow everywhere but the head as we age. You've seen it at the local pool, at the beach, or even on your own grandpa. Old grizzled...
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A 'Pumpkin' Pod For Flying To The Moon Like A Princess
Golden Spike Company Lunar LanderNorthrop GrummanNorthrop Grumman performed a viability study on plans from a private startup that wants to send people to the moon for a cool $750 million. Ready to...
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Watching Your Brain Freak Out On A Scanner Calms You Down
Inside A Musician's BrainSivu via YouTubePeople who observed their own brain activity using real-time fMRI feedback were better able to control and reduce their anxiety, a new study says. In a quirky...
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BeerSci: A Pint That Fits In Your Pocket
Beersci LogoTodd DetwilerAnywhere beer Nothing hits the spot after a long hike more than a beer, but lugging a six-pack through the wilderness isn't as appealing. Brewers have toyed with portable beer...
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Abandoned Star Wars Sets And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Star Wars AbandonedPhotographer Rä di Martino tracked down abandoned sets from Star Wars in Tunisia using Google Earth, then photographed them. It looks kinda lonely out there without R2-D2 beeping...
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Glove Changes Color When It Detects Toxins
Prototype GloveFraunhofer EMFTThe glove, still in its prototype stage, could prevent serious injuries in workers who handle toxic materials. Think of it as a wearable (and less cruel) canary....
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Burning Liquid Hydrogen For Fuel, Navy Drone Flies For 48 Hours Straight
Ion Tiger UAV in FlightU.S. Naval Research LaboratoryThis long-range spy-bot is also nearly silent. In drone design, there's a trade-off between flying quietly and staying airborne for a long time. The...
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Emergency Spacewalk Likely for 'Serious' ISS Coolant Leak
A slide showing the P6 Truss, the location of the coolant leak on the International Space StationNASA via Universe TodayAstronaut Tom Marshburn: "Suddenly very busy!" Astronauts on the International...
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Thieves Stole $45 Million From ATMs Because The U.S. Uses Absurd 40-Year-Old...
Debit Card SwipeDan NosowitzIf we weren't all using 1960s technology to conduct financial transactions, maybe we wouldn't get heisted. Yesterday, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn revealed that an...
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The Week In Numbers: The Brightest Explosion Ever, A Ticket To The Moon, And...
Gamma-ray Burst (Artist's Conception)Wikimedia Commons3.6 billion light-years: the distance from Earth of a recently observed gamma-ray burst, the brightest explosion NASA scientists have ever...
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Making New Elements
Linear Particle AcceleratorJim KoppHow scientists create superheavy atoms. Last year, scientists in Germany set out to create the heaviest known element in the universe: element 119. For five months,...
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