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Affordable Self-Driving Car Tech Aims To Become Ubiquitous Within Three Years
Illustration of Mobileye technology that measures following distanceMobileye on YouTubeIt's not made by Google. Google's self-driving car sure sounds appealing, but it's expensive. So another company...
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Who Was H.M.? Inside The Mind Of The Amnesiac Who Revolutionized Neuroscience
A botched lobotomy left 27-year-old Henry Molaison unable to form new memories. This is how Molaison's personal tragedy became science's gain. My friend's father was a neurosurgeon. As a child, I had...
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Robot Sees Into The Future To Pour You A Beer
"Yes, I predict you will want a beer in the near future." We've seen some pretty talented robot bartenders, but we still have to go to them for a drink. What kind of a future is this? Can't the robot...
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These Are The 100 Most Endangered Species In The World
The Rare Snub-Nosed MonkeyWikimedia CommonsThe most endangered species on the planet might come as a surprise. From the spammily named BestCollegesOnline comes a pretty excellent interactive tool to...
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How Tracking The Faces Of Sleepy Truck Drivers Could Save Your Life
Drowsy DriverCourtesy Seeing MachinesFatigue causes up to 65 percent of truck accidents within the mining industry. Caterpillar, the world's largest manufacturer of construction mining equipment, will...
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Supercomputer Creates Atom-By-Atom Model Of HIV Virus Shell
Atomic Model of an HIV CapsidCourtesy of TCBG-UIUCThe envelope in which HIV keeps its genetic material gets an unprecedentedly detailed look. The human immunodeficiency virus' capsid is both a shield...
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You Can Eat Off The Floor (Of The International Space Station)
Testing for BacteriaNASAFreeze-dried food seems pretty sterile but still! A new paper, enticingly titled "Rapid culture-independent microbial analysis aboard the international space station (ISS) stage...
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10 Improvised Weapons Made By Syrian Rebels
Syrian Hell Cannonan improvised artillery piece used by Syrian rebels.Ahrar Al-Shamal Battalions, via Brown MosesNecessity is the mother of destruction. Click here to enter the gallerySyrian rebels...
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Redesigned Gmail Wants To Show You The Email You Actually Give A Crap About
New Gmail TabsGoogleRolling out today, a redesigned Gmail organizes your messages, and learns what you want on your screen. If you're a Gmail fan, you probably like the clean interface, or maybe the...
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Bill Could Shift Research Focus From Climate Change To 'Weather Forecasting'
Hurricane Sandy Imaged Using NOAA's GOES-13 SatelliteNOAA/NASAWhich will better protect people and property? A new bill, still in its early drafts, may require the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
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What You're Listening To On Facebook, Visualized
Watch the popularity of music rise and fall in your city. Mapping Music on Facebook from Facebook Stories on Vimeo.Facebook's open graph protocol, a sort of integration of all of the information on...
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Eating Yogurt Does Weird Things To Your Brain
Yogurt e LamponiDiego CosenzaHow and why are tougher questions. Does what you eat affect your body more, or your mind? Can you just chow down on Big Macs as far as the brain goes, and be pretty much...
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Texas Bill Would Bring Email Privacy Into The 21st Century
Texas State CapitolLarry D. Moore, via wikimedia commonsWith any luck, the federal government will follow suit. Electronic communications laws are stuck in the last century. The Texas state legislature...
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Asteroid Mining Company Puts Orbital Telescope On Kickstarter
Under ConstructionPlanetary Resources engineers assemble an ARKYD 100 prototype.Planetary Resources on KickstarterA new crowdfunded space telescope promises ordinary citizens the ability to control the...
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This Bacterium-Sized Bunny Could Be The Future Of Bionic Brains
Microscopic bunny created with a new type of conductive resinYuya Daicho, Terumasa Murakami, Tsuneo Hagiwara, and Shoji MaruoScientists in Japan have created a new material that can be shaped into...
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A Generator That Harnesses Energy From Ocean Currents
Aqua TurbineTrevor JohnstonA working model of the estimated $5-million device could be ready within a year. The magic of ocean currents is that they surround every continent on Earth and they run all...
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How It Works: Masdar's Beam Down Optical Tower
Concentrated Solar Power AP Photo/ Kamran JebreiliAn experiment in concentrated solar power The Beam Down Tower at Masdar is a step forward in concentrated solar power (CSP). Unlike other plants, the...
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Science Journal Says It'll Publish Negative Results For Free
The File-Drawer EffectPublication bias is also called the "file-drawer effect" because negative studies get filed away privately instead of publicly published.Restore the GulfThe move is meant to...
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How To Make Bricks Out Of Dirt
Climate Control Because compressed-earth blocks absorb and release heat more slowly than fired bricks, they can keep interiors cooler during the day and warmer at night.Kevin HandDirt-cheap bricks-just...
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Guilt Detection Tests Can Be Beaten
Whodunnit?DreamstimeGood news for the guilty, bad news for law enforcement. The science of guilt is far from perfect. A new study says tests designed to prove guilt--tests that some law enforcement...
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