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Huge Tornado Flattens Towns Near Oklahoma City [Updated]
Tornado south of Oklahoma City on May 20, 2013KOCO via CNNPreliminary reports from the National Weather Service classify the mile-wide tornado as an EF-4, with winds greater than 200 mph. A massive...
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Russia's 'Space Ark' Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To...
A Bion-M1 capsule launches aboard a Soyuz rocketDLR photo via WikimediaThe longest orbital experiment dedicated purely to biology has returned to Earth. Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish,...
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Inside The World's Most Ambitious Eco-City
Taming The Desert When completed in 2025, Masdar City will pack 40,000 inhabitants into two square miles of carbon-neutral buildings.Courtesy Foster + PartnersWhy would a petro-state erect a...
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Cold Fusion Machine Gets Third-Party Verification, Inventor Says
UnpluggedRossi in his Bologna warehouse with a 10-kilowatt E-Cat module. He has been criticized in the past for not unplugging his machine during demos.Steve FeatherstoneThe E-Cat strikes again. A...
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Megapixels: A Parasitic Worm Infects An Ant
Infected AntAlex WildIn the jungles of Belize last January, entomologist Alex Wild noticed something odd about the trap-jaw ants passing through his outdoor insect photography class: They all had...
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Reconstructing The Oklahoma Tornado From Start To Finish, In Videos
The EF-4 Moore, Okla., Tornado, May 20, 2013This is what real destruction looks like. The devastation wrought by the mile-wide, EF-4 tornado that ripped through Moore, Okla., and south Oklahoma City...
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Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes
Category F5 tornado near Elie, Manitoba, on June 22, 2007Justin Hobson via Wikimedia CommonsThe remotely piloted vehicles could one day replace storm chasers, who risk their lives to capture valuable...
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NASA Invests In 3-D Food Printer For Mars Missions
Pizza From TokyoThe 3-D-printed stuff probably won't look this good.HaseoMaking pizza out of insect meal, instantly It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get...
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Scientists Reveal The Cause Of The Irish Potato Famine
Irish Lumper PotatoThe Irish lumper, the breed of potato that was hit by the Irish Potato Famine pathogen, nearly disappeared. In 2008, it was bred back into existence as an heirloom potato.GOADOne of...
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Why Are Tornadoes So Hard To Predict?
People in the path of a tornado typically get only 10 minutes of warning. Why? Sixteen minutes before a tornado touched down in Newcastle, Okla., yesterday, the U.S. Storm Prediction Center sent a...
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Russia Is Building Robots To 'Neutralize' Terrorists
Though it hasn't explained exactly how, the Russian government says it is building robots that will minimize casualties during terrorist attacks and engage terrorists directly. It's hard to tell...
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U.S. Has Depleted Two Lake Eries' Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900
Aquifers in the Continental USThis map of major aquifers in the U.S. highlights the High Plains Aquifer (green) and the Dakota Aquifer (white, outlined in black).L.F. Konikow, U.S. Geological...
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Climate Change Will Increase Heat-Related Deaths In NYC, Study Says
New York City HeatAurelien Guichard via Wikimedia Commons Summer in the city could get a whole lot more miserable in the coming decades, according to a new report. Warming weather could make summer in...
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Xbox One: Here's What We Know About Microsoft's New Console
Xbox OneMicrosoftToday Microsoft unveiled its next-gen console. Some of the rumors turned out to be spot-on. Others, not so much. Today, Microsoft unveiled its new console, Xbox One, from its...
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IBM's Watson Is Bringing "Cognitive Computing" to Customer Service
It will be powering smartphone apps by the end of the year too. IBM's Watson computing platform made a name for itself on Jeopardy, but its incremental roll-out into the real world has been no less...
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Xbox One Is The First Games Console For People Who Don't Like Games
Microsoft Xbox OneMicrosoftAt last: a game console that doesn't require gaming. "PlayStation" is a literal description of what you do with it: it's a station at which you play. Nintendo has released...
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This Newer, Stronger 3-D Printed Gun Costs Just $25
'Joe's' multi-round-ready 3-D printed Lulz LiberatorA Wisconsin engineer has produced a cheaper, more durable version of Defense Distributed's 3-D printed pistol on an inexpensive, consumer-grade...
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Synthetic Biologists Engineer A Custom Flu Vaccine In A Week
Illustration of a Generic Flu VirusCenters for Disease Control and PreventionA synthetic biology method proves its chops. A copy of the genetic code of an H7N9 avian flu-similar to, but not exactly the...
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The Moore, Oklahoma Tornado, From Space
The Full DiskHere's a full-on "disk" shot of the planet, taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite. (Fun fact: NOAA is pronounced like the name "noah.") You can see the storm over the central part of the...
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Should Photojournalists Be Permitted To Manipulate Photos?
The Award-Winning, Manipulated PhotoFred HansenIn the wake of the scandal around the winner of the World Press Photo award, which was found to have been manipulated significantly with Photoshop, it...
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