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A Pet Drone That Follows You Like A Lost Puppy [Video]
Pet DroneThis flying intelligent drone can track an owner and record their every move.Dave Mosher/Popular ScienceThis autonomous flying servant can track and record you from the sky. Drones can't fetch...
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How Engineers Redesigned The Office Chair For Smartphone And Tablet Users
Steelcase Gesture SteelcaseYour task chair just got smarter. The way people work is changing quickly. About two thirds of workers use at least two devices-tablets, smartphones, computers-every day....
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FYI: What Is The Limit To How Fast A Human Can Run?
Usain BoltWikimedia CommonsScientific and technological advances are making that an awfully complicated question. The limit to how fast a human can run is 9.48 seconds for the 100-meter race, 0.10...
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You Built What?!: A Human Catapult
Air Time Jason Bell's 2,500-pound contraption is powered by compressed air. He estimates that 24 BASE jumpers have used it to fly off the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia.verticalvisons.comAn...
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Australian Police Warn Of 3-D Printed Gun Explosions
A 3-D printed pistol created by a New South Wales police department suffered a "catastrophic misfire." Police in the Australian state of New South Wales issued a warning last week about Defense...
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Google Invades Africa
Google BlimpThe "gBlimp" is from an April Fool's joke a few years back. BUT WHAT IF IT WAS REAL.GoogleGoogle's plan to bring high-speed internet access to huge swathes of Africa includes blimps,...
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Exclusive: Nerf's Newest Gun Fires 100 Feet
How the N-Strike Elite Centurion out-blasts the competition Sniping our fellow editors is a much-beloved and long-standing tradition here at Popular Science HQ. Trouble is: our long hallways leave us...
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400-Year-Old Mosses Revived In Lab
Eastern edge of Teardrop Glacier on Ellesmere IslandImage courtesy of Catherine La FargeThe amazing reviving Little Ice Age bryophyte This has been in the freezer for a long time. You think it's still...
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Researchers Turn Cement Into Metal Using Lasers
Illustration Of The ProcessThis isn't quite what the process will look like, of course, but you get the idea.Argonne National LaboratoryYou might be getting a gadget made out of cement soon. A team of...
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Chinese Hackers Steal Plans To Dozens Of U.S. Weapons Systems
One of NASA's Global Hawk recon dronesNASA DrydenThe cheapest weapons program? Looting another nation's R&D. Chinese hackers have compromised designs for more than two dozen U.S. military weapons...
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Did Rock Climbing Help Us Start Walking Upright?
Stand Up GuyJosé-manuel Benitos via Wikimedia CommonsA new theory suggests humans became bipedal so that we could scramble up rugged terrain. The story of how humans evolved from knuckle-walking...
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Watch A Linguist Translate Teens' Annoying Groans Into Even More Annoying...
"Breathy-voiced long low back unrounded vowel with advanced tongue root?" Auggghhh.Teenagers, right?! When they're not complaining about cleaning their rooms they're achieving nuclear fusion. Who can...
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Where People Screw Up The National Anthem [Infographic]
You've probably seen at least one of the recordings, or, Lord forbid, actually been at a game, where a singer botches the words to the National Anthem. Whoops! Embarrassing. But also interesting!...
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Big Pic: Countdown To A Soyuz Rocket Launch
Soyuz CountdownNASA/Bill IngallsThis pictorial tidbit from our friends at NASA shows a Soyuz rocket awaiting launch at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The plane in the front of the rocket is a...
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That Norah Jones Song Playing In Starbucks Could Trigger Malware On Your Phone
Hack With Lightvia UABHow a flashing TV or a secretly encoded song could unlock a hidden virus. Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have discovered a new, subtle way for evildoers to...
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Now You Can Control Someone Else's Arm Over The Internet
Arm ControlA demonstration of Open Limbs using an iPhone's accelerometer (left) and a flex sensor on a model skeleton (right) to control creator Will Canine's arms.Screenshot via VimeoHope your WiFi...
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Scientists Discover Massive Methane-Based Ecosystem
Seep MusselsImage courtesy of Deepwater Canyons 2013 Expedition, NOAA-OER/BOEM/USGSIt's only the third cold seep discovered off the U.S. Atlantic Coast, and it could help researchers understand how...
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German Railway Wants Thermal-Imaging Drones To Catch Vandals
Microdrones' md4-1000 modelMicrodronesDeutsche Bahn hopes the mini-drones will deter train graffiti. Here's yet another way drones may find their way into domestic life. Germany's national railways...
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FDA Asks For Data On Urine-Test App
uChek AppuChek on FacebookFor the first time, the FDA has asked a smartphone app company to send in data proving the app works. An iPhone app that reads urine sticks for you will now have to get U.S....
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Soyuz Crew Sets Record For Fastest Trip To International Space Station
Screenshot from NASA TV of the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft arriving at the International Space Station. Via Universe TodayHow'd they do it? The crew of Expedition 36 aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M set a record...
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