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Give Voices In Your Head A Virtual Body And They'll Go Away
Avatars Made By Patientsvia BBCA recent study showed that schizophrenic patients who put an avatar to the voices they were hearing ended up hearing the voices less. This might be an unexpected way to...
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1 In 13 Humans Walk On Bendy Chimp Feet, Study Finds
Funky FeetAntònia Font via Wikimedia CommonsTake to the trees! Humans may have moved out of the trees, but some of us are still wandering around with vestiges of our arboreal ancestors: a flexible,...
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New Motorola Vitamin Pills Could Be Edible Stomach-Acid-Powered Passwords
Vitamin AuthenticationScreenshot via AllThingsDI hope they make them in the shape of The Flintstones! Taking a daily vitamin could do more than give you an extra kick of vitamin D or C in the morning....
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New App Claims To Cure Homosexuality In 60 Days
Setting Captives Free AppSCFGay-bashing? Psychological abuse? Religious indoctrination? There's an app for that. Setting Captives Free identifies as a non-denominational ministry which teaches the...
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U.S. Navy Could Deploy Robot Boats To Find Undersea Mines
Model of an unmanned surface vehicledrone boat! Drone boat.Kelsey D. AthertonContinuing the quest to keep humans and explosions far, far away from each other The U.S. Navy has long used MH-53 Sea...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Slippery Slitherer?
Mystery Animal: May 29, 2013TBA (It's a Mystery!)Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously....
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Ultra-Sensitive Stethoscope Can Pick Up Heartbeats In Space
Space StethoscopeWill Kirk/homewoodphoto.jhu.eduIt works over the din of a space ship, even if it's not placed correctly on the patient's body. In space, no one can hear your heart scream. Though the...
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What Science Says About Arousal During Rape
Of those who report their rapes, around 4 to 5 percent also describe experiencing orgasm. DreamstimeYes, orgasms can happen to a rape victim. Rape. Most of us don't like to talk about it. We don't like...
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NASA: Mars Travelers Would Get Fried By Radiation
Radiation Assessment DetectorNASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRIData collected during Curiosity's journey to Mars shows radiation exposure will present a major challenge for manned interplanetary missions. Bad news...
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Google Wants To Turn Happy Users Into A Captive Audience
Delicious BananasHow many calories are in a banana? Google will tell you--but you'll have to stay on a Google site for the answer.Wikimedia CommonsGoogle's plan to become your entire web experience...
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200 Projects And Counting: Submit Your Idea To #CrowdGrant [Video]
The Popular Science #CrowdGrant ChallengeThere's still time to submit a kick-butt crowdfunding project to Popular Science's #CrowdGrant Challenge. The last day to enter is June 15. In April, Popular...
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This Concept Electric Motorcycle Recharges In 10 Minutes
Electric motorbike conceptOlegs Zabelins and Pavels SevcenkoThe futuristic motorbike features six honeycomb-like, quick-swapping battery modules. From designers Olegs Zabelins and Pavels Sevcenko, this...
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How To Turn A Barf Bag Into A Phone Mount
DIY: Phone Mount Son of AlanBecome the envy of fellow passengers on TV-free airplanes On the streets of Manila, Flynn Jason Siy entertains himself with urban gymnastics. On airplanes, he avenges...
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Can The Expansion Of Cell Phone Coverage Lead To Violent Conflict?
Nokia 1100Rugged and efficient, this phone has been called "the AK-47 of the Cell-Phone World."Wikimedia CommonsA recent study found statistically significant evidence, but there is still more research...
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3 Portable, Affordable Consoles That Run On Android
Game The SystemBrian KlutchGaming the system THE TRENDAndroid might have started off as a smartphone operating system (OS), but in the five years since its launch, companies have adapted it to run...
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Can You Tornado-Proof A Home?
How to protect your house from an EF-5 tornado--and why FEMA doesn't recommend you even try. As with so many "is it possible" type questions, the answer of whether you can have a tornado-proof house is...
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A Volkswagen Rolled Into A Ball And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Volkswagen SphereArtist Ichwan Noor made this sculpture: yes, it's a real 1953 Volkswagen Beetle, combined with aluminum and polyester, and rolled up into a sphere. It's also an awesome series, which...
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Google Doodle Honors Julius Richard Petri, Inventor Of The Petri Dish
Google Doodle honoring birthday of Julius Richard PetriGoogleTo celebrate the birthday of German microbiologist Julius Richard Petri, inventor of the eponymous dish, Google has created a very germ-y,...
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Mapping The Movement Of Every Ball In A Tennis Match [Infographic]
Tennis Ball TrajectoriesCorona PerspectivesIt's so pretty! Tennis is already one of the most high-tech, closely monitored sports in the world, from high-speed cameras that swoop around the court to...
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The Amazing Potential Of Wave Energy, In Numbers
A Yellow Oyster 800 Wave Machine in Orkney, ScotlandAquamarine PowerSome major wave energy installations are planned for the U.K. and the U.S. Plans for the world's biggest wave farm got the go-ahead...
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