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These Self-Assembling Nanoflowers Are As Beautiful As They Are Tiny
Nanoflower 4Wim L. NoorduinHarvard researchers grew these lovely microscopic gardens using delicate chemical reactions. Click here to enter the galleryA nanorose may not smell as sweet as an organic...
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Was The Oklahoma City Tornado The Worst In History?
Oklahoma City TornadobschjothA disaster by the numbers. Monday's tornado in the Oklahoma City area killed at least 24 people and leveled a massive number of homes and businesses. The L.A. Times quoted...
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Got A Wound? Science Says Rub Some Dirt In It
MRSACDCAntibacterial clays can kill antibiotic-resistant E. coli and MRSA, researchers found. The colloquial medical advice "rub some dirt in it" appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona...
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Navy Completes First Flight Of Game-Changing MQ-4C Triton Spy Drone [Video]
Triton on the Tarmac, May 21, 2013U.S. Navy photo courtesy of Northrop Grumman by Chad SlatteryThe long-range maritime drone will give the U.S. unprecedented surveillance of the world's oceans. For the...
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Portland, Oregon, Says No To Fluoridation
Pro and ConImages from Clean Water Portland (left) and Healthy Kids Healthy Portland (right)So when is Portlandia going to do a skit about this? Residents of Portland, Oregon, voted down, yet again, an...
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Why Don't We Have More Drones Monitoring Wildfires?
Scan EagleA remotely piloted aircraft, seen here launched by catapult.U.S. Navy via wikimedia commonsInfrared eyes and remote pilots have a lot to offer forest firefighters. Remote-controlled drones...
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FYI: How Does Chewing Gum Freshen Breath?
Minty freshDreamstimeAnd which gum gives you the sweetest-smelling breath? You're driving home from a first date, and it went great: You didn't sweat too much, your jokes worked 50 percent of the time,...
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Why Do Cicadas Invade In Such Crazy Numbers?
The explanation for the infestation. Magicicada is a plague unlike any other, here in the northeast. And it is a plague with a reason: emerging in absurd, over-the-top, biblical numbers is the cicada's...
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The World's Largest Lego Model Is A Life-Size X-Wing [Video]
Lego's life-size X-wing fighter Dan BracagliaHow'd they do it? Click here to enter the galleryThis morning, Lego opened up a gigantic box in Times Square. Inside: a full-scale replica of an X-wing...
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Cloned Human Embryo Study Comes Under Fire
Single human SCNT blastocystOHSU PhotosAn anonymous commenter has pointed out four different problems in last week's breakthrough paper. A week ago, scientists from Oregon Health and Science University...
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Scientists Find One Gene Responsible For All White Tigers
White tigers in Chimelong Safari Park in ChinaChimelong Safari ParkAnd it's our fault that they're super inbred. Science may not be totally sure how the tiger got its stripes, but at least they've got...
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Obama Set To Reboot Drone Strike Policy And Retool The War On Terror
An MQ-9 Reaper, precision bombs and air-to-ground missiles at the readyUSAFIn a major counterterrorism address today, President Obama is expected to announce a significant shift in the drone policy...
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Big Pic: Eruption Of Alaska's Pavlof Volcano, As Seen From The International...
Pavlof Volcano Eruption, May 18, 2013NASAThe crew aboard the International Space Station managed to snap these three striking images of Alaska's Pavlof Volcano a few days ago, which capture (via their...
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8 Ridiculous Nutrition Myths Debunked
EggsellentPier/Getty ImagesFrom calorie counting to high-protein diets There is a lot of incompetence in the area of nutrition and health. Even health professionals seem to constantly contradict each...
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Discovered: Molecule That Triggers Itchiness
ScratchingWing-Chi PoonAt long last, researchers have identified what happens in the nervous system as an itch begins. What really causes itching, and how it works, is surprisingly little understood....
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Who Wouldn't Want To Stay In This Totally Insane Space Hotel!?
Space HotelMobilonaIt's got a wind tunnel! Also: a zero-gravity spa! Last week, the U.S.-based consortium Mobilona unveiled plans for this crazy building: a futuristic "space" hotel filled with stuff...
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U.S. Army Creates Shoebox-Size Universal Battery Charger
Army Battery ChargerU.S. ArmyIt charges eight batteries and two USB devices at once. Battery chargers are finally getting a military upgrade. This is big! Not in a literal sense-that honor goes to the...
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New Water-Repellant Fabric Is Like A Second Skin
A tiny channel of canals directs water away from where it shouldn't be. We've seem some neat ideas for water-repellant materials that suggest sweat stains will one day be as dead as dial-up. Here's one...
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Social Media Replaces Police Missing Persons Searches In France
A postcard from 1899 imagining French Police in the year 2000Instead, the police are on the ground and asking people to use social media for searches.wikimedia commonsFrench police have abandoned...
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Scientists Train People To Not Be Jerks
The Dalai LamaFriends of Tibet/Pankaj MistryTo be excellent to one another, just try out some Buddhist meditation. If you're kind of a jerk, but at least concerned about your jerk-ness, take heart:...
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