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NASA Wants To Bring 3-D Printers To Space
Zero-Gravity 3-D PrinterMade in SpaceWork has begun on what could be the first 3-D printer in space. In space, where delivery of items you might need is difficult and square footage is at a premium,...
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Amazing Art Inspired By MRIs
Neuron No. 3Laura JacobsonLaura Jacobson's sculptures, etchings, and acrylics are installed at Stanford's imaging center. Drawing inspiration from a brain scan taken as part of a research study, artist...
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Brain Injection Prevents PTSD In Mice
Mental CombatChris KoehlerHow a drug now can change fear later. A new study, published today, is a first step toward a drug to prevent PTSD in people-something soldiers or emergency responders could...
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How It Works: The Mechanical Bomb Sniffer
Mechanical Sniffer Trevor JohnstonA guide to the machine that could change how we screen for explosive threats Last fall, David Atkinson and a team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory...
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8 Awesome Things We Learned About Bill Nye From His Reddit AMA
Bill Nye the Science GuyEd Schipul via Wikimedia CommonsAmid chants of "Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill! Bill!, the Science Guy himself logged on to Reddit yesterday afternoon to answer questions about science,...
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Sleep-Deprived Men Are Really Bad At Judging Who Wants To Sleep With Them
Sofa SleepiStockPhotoMissing out on sleep can cause men to incorrectly gauge if women want to get it on. Gentlemen: if you're running low on fuel after a poor night's sleep, but think your luck's...
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Iowa City Considers Ban On Crime-Fighting Robots
Red Light Cameras in Springfield OhioWikimedia CommonsThe preemptive ordinance would outlaw license plate readers, red light cameras, and drones. An ordinance before the city council of Iowa City,...
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How The Media Covers Clean Energy [Infographic]
Cleantech DissectedDow JonesCoverage doesn't always reflect where the money is going. Whether that matters is a different story. Dow Jones, examining data from 2007 to 2012, created this infographic on...
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NASA Is Building An Intergalactic GPS
Vela PulsarThis is the Vela pulsar, located about 1,000 light-years from Earth. One NASA team is looking to use pulsar light in a GPS-like system that would help spacecraft navigate anywhere in...
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Use Universal Gesture Control From Any Room In Your House
Wave your hand to change the music. The music in the other room. Imagine the Kinect. Now imagine you can use gestures like you'd use with the Kinect to control anything--appliances, lights, gadgets,...
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We're Making Less Effective Drugs Now Than 40 Years Ago
PillsiStockphotoA new study examines the effectiveness of new drugs compared with placebo in drug trials from 1966 to 2010. The new drugs aren't looking so hot. Apparently, the good ol' days really did...
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America's Road To Energy Independence, Part 2
A four-part series on the clean technologies that will set us free Our series follows Editor-in-Chief Jacob Ward on a trip across the country and around the world to see firsthand the ideas that could...
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Important Scientific Mystery Solved: How Birds Lose Their Penises
About 10,000 species of birds have reduced or absent external genitalia.Tamara StaplesThe penises of many male birds stop growing and shrink away. Scientists reveal the genetic mechanism at work. A...
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Penny-Sized Vacuum System Could Help Detect Chemical Weapons
24-stage microscale rough pump Those hexagons are tiny vacuum chambers, and the lines between them are pumps and valves.DARPAFrom DARPA, some very tiny suction. Five years ago, DARPA challenged...
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Inconsistency In The Big Bang Theory Resolved
Lithium LevelsKarin Lind, Davide De MartinPrevious measurements of lithium isotopes in the galaxy may not have been entirely accurate. Woops! A team of scientists working at the Keck Observatory in...
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Laser Time Cloak Hides The Fact That An Event Ever Happened
Temporal Cloaking In the middle of the image, the light intensity goes to zero, creating a cloaking effect.Lukens et al.This is the first almost-practical application of temporal cloaking ... but it...
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Video: Plunging Hot Charcoal Into Liquid Oxygen
A scientific breakdown brought to you courtesy of a high-speed camera. As part of the excellent Periodic Table of Videos series, shot by video journalist Brady Haran and featuring University of...
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What Would Antarctica Look Like If All The Ice Melted?
Spoiler: still not super hospitable. Ever wondered what's underneath the ice--sometimes up to three kilometers thick--that covers Antarctica? Until very recently, we weren't really sure; maps were...
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Why Government Phone Spying Is Really About Big Data
National Security Agency HeadquartersWikimedia CommonsVerizon has given the U.S. National Security Agency information on all its telephone calls for months. But it's not the calls' content the...
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Starting This Week, Audis Will Find Parking Spaces Automatically
Connect With That Parking SpaceAudiOne of the greatest frustrations of urban life and holiday mall shopping, solved. Audi is a company that loves to make its cars do the work for you. Its self-driving...
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