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The Tag That Could Save Sharks
Shark TagCourtesy A. Driever, Desert Star Systems LLC; Inset: Courtesy Jim AbernethyShark behavior is one of the great mysteries of the ocean, and mediocre tags are primarily to blame. Scientists can't...
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How To Turn An AK-47 Into A Soup Ladle
From AK-47 to SpoonMichael IzbickiA DIY metaphor for peace Changing swords into plowshares and spears into pruning-hooks is an ancient metaphor for turning away from violence and toward peaceful labor....
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X-47B Takes Off From An Aircraft Carrier Today
RAE LarynxRAE Larynx on cordite fired catapult of destroyer HMS Stronghold, July 1927.Wikimedia CommonsIt's a momentous occasion for the autonomous drone, sure, but remote-controlled airplanes have...
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2013 Invention Awards: Suborbital Safeguard
Fit For SpaceThe metal neck ring of the second-generation (2G) space suit proved uncomfortable for a wearer while lying down, so Southern [right] and Moiseev [left] plan to integrate a helmet with a...
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2013 Invention Awards: Hot Savings
HYPER DiagramGraham MurdochAn HVAC system powered by an 18-wheeler's exhaust. Semitruck drivers idle their engines to heat or cool their vehicles' cabs-a practice that burns a billion gallons of fuel...
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Cornstarch Replaces Cyanide In Clean New Gold Extraction Method
Gold In A FlaskWikimedia CommonsScientists accidentally discover a new way to isolate gold that is much safer than existing processes, which use toxic cyanide. Gold, precious forever but especially...
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Freaky Carnivorous Flower Has Super-Efficient Genome
<i>Utricularia gibba</i> BladderA micrograph image of a humped bladderwort bladder with color added. The bladder is 1 millimeter long in real life.Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Claudia AnahÃ...
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A Cannabinoid That Looks Like THC Could Be Key To Diagnosing PTSD
PTSD BrainPositron emission tomography scans of the brain of a patient from the PTSD group, the trauma control group and the healthy control group. The brightness of the image corresponds to the level...
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Iranian Hackers Attacking U.S. Banks
World CurrenciesPopSciHackers have attacked major U.S. banks over most of the past year, according to a new report. Noticed any outages on your bank's website over the past year? They could have been...
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Was the 2013 World Press Photo Of The Year A Fake?
Fake Photo ControversyThis image, which won the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year contest, has come under fire for being digitally manipulated.Paul Hansen / World Press PhotoForensic image analysis...
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Gene Machine
Gene MachineGreg MaxsonA pipe that copies DNA using the heat of a lightbulb. Biology's equivalent of an office copier is a PCR machine. PCR, short for polymerase chain reaction, is now a staple in...
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Autonomous X-47B Jet Fighter Makes Historic First Launch From An Aircraft...
The Navy's X-47B Catapults Into the History Books(U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Alan RadeckiAs PopSci cheers from the carrier deck ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, ATLANTIC OCEAN--All...
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What Information Can The Justice Department Get From Your Phone Records?
FBI HeadquartersAude, via Wikimedia CommonsThe U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the Associated Press's telephone records. How much data will officials have access to? Yesterday the Associated...
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Shipping A 50-Foot Magnet Across The U.S., For Physics
Moving MuonsA model of the truck that will be used to transport the Muon g-2 ring, placed on a streetscape for scale. The truck will be escorted by police and other vehicles when it moves from...
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Super-Real Mario Kart
Geek SquadHunter Smith of Waterloo Labs [second from left] helped four interns transform go-karts into interactive racers fit for a Super Nintendo game.Jeff WilsonA pack of hacked go-karts that...
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Dentists Study Alligators To Figure Out How Humans Could Regrow Teeth
ToothyNational Park Service Photo by Rodney CammaufGators may grow 4,000 teeth over their lifetimes. Once your adult teeth come in, that's all you've got to work with. Knock one out, or lose a few to...
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Now Live: The June 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Energy: Water Teaser Nick KaloterakisEditor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on how the Kardashev Scale is an elegant way of describing our dreams In the early 1960s, a Soviet astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev, was...
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8 Things You Should Know About Electric Cars
Sometime in the next few weeks, the 100,000th plug-in electric car will be sold in the U.S. But they're still mostly a mystery to the average new-car buyer, and there are a few key principles that get...
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The Drone Camera Revolution Is Here
Drone PhotographyPaul BunyardFocusing on drones as devices of scary military surveillance and execution ignores the entire field of consumer drones--which are, basically, next-generation...
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Big Pic: A Fiery Ribbon Stretching Across Orion's Belt
Orion's Fiery RibbonESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2Inside the European Southern Observatory's Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, there's a submillimeter-wavelength camera perfectly...
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