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Harvesting Wind Energy By Covering Skyscrapers in Piezoelectric 'Hairs'
Belatchew's STRAWSCRAPER vision for Södermalm's South Tower in Stockholm, SwedenBelatchew ArkitekterIn the future, all buildings will resemble massive toilet brushes. Perhaps not, but that's the...
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Google Bets $10.7 Million On Drone Intelligence
An MD-200 QuadrotorTwo years ago Google purchased one of these quadrotors from German manufacturer Microdroneswikimedia commonsThe company's venture capital arm has just made a big investment in...
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A Guide To Not Saying Dumb Things About Angelina Jolie's Double Mastectomy
Angelina JolieGage Skidmore via Wikimedia CommonsA refresher in genetic mutations, breast cancer risk and the perils of overawareness Angelina Jolie's announcement in Tuesday's New York Times that she...
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Earth's Core Is Weaker Than We Thought
Earth's CoreWikimedia CommonsLike so many of our own! No judgments, Earth. A new study in Nature Geoscience, from two Stanford researchers, indicates that our planet's super-dense, super strong core...
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Scientists Create Bone Using Layered Clay
Synthetic silicate nanoplatelets, or layered clay, can stimulate stem cells to turn into bone cellsImage courtesy of Khademhosseini LabA common industrial material turns stem cells into bone cells, a...
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The First Round Of Apps For Google Glass Is Here
Google Glass Sans PersonGoogleOur first clue at how people might actually use Google Glass in the real world. Google announced today at the I/O developer conference in California that the first wave of...
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Giving White People The Illusion Of Darker Skin Makes Them Less Racist
Illusions And BiasesDreamstimeA change of skin tone can bring a change of heart, apparently. An optical illusion can change the implicit biases of Caucasian people against people with darker skin,...
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This Bacterium Can Do Division, Compute Logarithms And Take Square Roots
Bacterial Calculation Ramiz Daniel, Jacob R. Rubens, Rahul Sarpeshkar, Timothy K. Lu via MITMIT researchers engineered bacterial cells to function as living calculators. A group of engineers from MIT...
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From Jaguar, A 495-Horsepower Monster
Jaguar F-Type V8 SCourtesy JaguarCan the long-awaited E-Type successor live up to its lineage? In 1961, Jaguar debuted the E-Type, a road-ready two-seat version of the company's champion racecars. It...
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Wanna Know How You're Going To Survive The Apocalypse?
Annalee Newitz Jonathan Wilkins and Breanne WilloughbyJoin us today on Facebook for a chat with Annalee Newitz, editor-in-chief of io9.com and author of "Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will...
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Internet-Enabled Laser Pointer Lets You Play With Your Pet From Anywhere In...
Petcube helps your cat stay active/frustrated by chasing a laser pointer. Playing a game of "chase the laser pointer" with a cat is one of the most compelling reasons to get a cat in the first place....
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Mapping The Simpsons' Slow Descent Into Suckitude
The Simpsons' Popularity Over TimeAndrew ClarkPlus: how other shows fare over time Who can predict how a TV show will fare two or three seasons out? Some shows only gain momentum after a dull first...
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High School Students Devise More Accurate Climate Modeling Method
Fossilized leaves can tell us a lot about out climate historyFrank Kovalchek via WikimediaBy studying the way leaves shrink when they fossilize, a team of more than 100 high school students could build...
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First American Mission To Sample An Asteroid Gets Green Light
Illustration of OSIRIS-RExUniversity of ArizonaOSIRIS-REx will scoop up a couple of ounces of dirt from the asteroid Bennu and bring it back to Earth. Earth-bound scientists are on track to get their...
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Video: MIT's Cheetah Robot Trots, Then Gallops
MIT's CheetahThe robot can course at 22 kilometers per hour. Boston Dynamics' Cheetah robot may be the fastest, but MIT's version of the DARPA-backed quadruped robot is proving to be the most...
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America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 1
A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Our series follows editor-in-chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the world to see firsthand the ideas that could...
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Cambrian Fossil With Scissor-Like Claws Is Named For Johnny Depp
Kooteninchela deppiImperial College LondonPack it up, science, we're done here. Academy Awards continue to elude Johnny Depp, but as of today no one can say he hasn't been immortalized. A...
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7 Reasons Why 'Star Trek Into Darkness' Is A Beginner's Guide To Star Trek...
Star...Battles?The USS Enterprises faces off against a much larger warship.ParamountEveryday science, familiar plotlines, and an absence of jargon make this the most accessible Star Trek yet. Star Trek...
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Drone-Vision Rifle Goes On Sale For $22K
TrackingPoint XactSystem Series1) The hunter marks his prey. 2) The ballistics computer determines where the shot will land in current conditions. 3) The hunter corrects his aim and fires.Courtesy...
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A Zombie Worm And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Zombie WormThis horrifying worm is an Osedax, also called a zombie worm or bone-eating worm, for a pretty obvious reason: it lives inside the bones of dead sea creatures, like whales, eating and mating...
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