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U.S. Should Lower DUI Blood-Alcohol Threshold To 0.05 Percent, Transportation...
Hand 'Em OverCity of Johns Creek, GeorgiaAll states now have a 0.08 percent legal limit, but the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board says you're drunk at 0.05 percent blood-alcohol content. The...
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What High-Frequency Trading Looks Like Every Millisecond [Infographic]
This is what high-frequency trading looks likeNanex via YouTubeCheck out how much money you're not making. Something to think about as the millisecond tick by today: how much money you're not making...
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FYI: Do I Really Need My Pinky Toe?
Toes!DreamstimeAnd without it, could I do everything a five-toed human does? Walking, running and skipping with just four toes may be easier than you think."If you're born without a pinky toe or have...
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How Will We Keep Track Of Our Robot Minions?
Robo-NurseTavis CoburnIn the future, when machines run our lives, we'll need a way to keep tabs on all those helper bots. Two researchers have come up with a solution. The trickiest part of a future...
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Google Should Include A Self-Destruct Button On Every Android Phone
Samsung Galaxy S4, With SkinSamsungToday at Google's I/O conference, stock Android seemed like a pricey luxury. Why? Today at the 2013 Google I/O conference in California, Google announced that the...
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Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo
Human BlastocystA human embryo at the blastocyst stageOpen i betaThe process that created Dolly the sheep in 1996 has now been proven successful in humans. Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a...
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NASA's Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished
Kepler Space TelescopeKepler is designed to look for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a temperate "Goldilocks zone," where temperatures are right for liquid water. It stares at a patch of...
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Laser Scanner Can Detect Someone Watching You A Kilometer Away
Torrey Pines Logic Beam 100Torrey Pines LogicA new device protects soldiers by detecting and locating optical glass. U.S. defense contractors spend a lot of resources developing robots that help the...
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Everything You Need To Know About Today's Google I/O Keynote
New Google Maps, a totally new GChat, new features for Android, and more. Google announced a bunch of stuff today at the annual I/O conference in California. The announcements are mostly...
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Untouched For The Last Billion Years, Water In Canadian Mine Holds...
Water found deep in an Ontario mine could have been isolated and untouched for the last billion years.José Manuel Suárez via WikimediaScientists may have discovered the oldest free-flowing source of...
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Light Duty
March to the HeatSoldiers walk on a treadmill in the tropical chamber.Courtesy of the U.S. ArmyThe Army fires up a sunshine simulator. Each year, some 20 soldiers experience Afghanistan's 118°F heat...
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What Modern Humans Can Learn From The Neanderthals' Extinction
A reconstruction of <i>Homo neanderthalensis</i> at Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, GermanyWikimedia CommonsIt's a fact of the archaeological record: Modern humans survived and Neanderthals...
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Space Tourism's Black Carbon Problem
MARS shotMarsScientific.com and Clay Center ObservatoryThe industry and the F.A.A. say the climate effects of flying civilians into space will be negligible, but some scientists fret about the...
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FYI: Which Emotion Is The Hardest To Fake?
Surprise!Not so easy to fake.DreamstimeUnlike the commonly deployed social smile, distressed expressions-anger, fear, sadness, and occasionally surprise-prove much more difficult to display on command....
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Electrical Brain Stimulation Can Help You Learn Math
Transcranial StimulationThis is an image of a different type of transcranial stimulation than the type researchers studied below. The transcranial random noise stimulation study below required headgear...
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How NASA Could Save Kepler
Kepler Might Be On It's Last LegNASAScott Hubbard, former director of the NASA Ames Research Center, speculates on how NASA could revive the ailing space telescope. Yesterday NASA officials confirmed...
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Google And NASA Team Up In Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
D-Wave Quantum ComputerD-WaveWhy not use a crazy sci-fi technology (quantum computing) to solve a classic crazy sci-fi problem (artificial intelligence)? Google announced today a partnership with NASA...
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State Drops Charges Against High School Student Arrested For Science Experiment
Crime Scene?DreamstimeFlorida state attorneys have decided not to file felony charges against a 16-year-old whose science experiment was actually not boring. Good news coming out of Florida this week:...
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Robot Plane Flies Humans 500 Miles
Remotely Piloted JetstreamASTRAEAUp, up, and away-without a pilot. The great thing about robots is that they take boring, repetitive tasks from humans, which frees up our superior minds for more...
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Concept Skyscraper Generates Its Own Energy, Looks Like A Toilet Brush
Belatchew's STRAWSCRAPER vision for Södermalm's South Tower in Stockholm, SwedenBelatchew ArkitekterThe, erm, splashy future of skyscrapers In the future, all buildings will resemble massive toilet...
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