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Fluorescent IED-Detecting Polymer Could Replace Bomb-Sniffing Dogs
IED Detector Jason Koski/Stanford University PhotographyIt's like a glow stick! When it comes to ferreting out explosives in public places, bomb-sniffing dogs still rule, though scientists are trying...
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The Energy Fix: Wind Power Blades Get Bigger, Turbines Get Smarter
Wind Power FutureMetal inserts built into the carbon-fiber blade during manufacture mean the root end, bolted to the hub, can be slimmer, stronger, and more aerodynamically efficient. ā¢ Fabricating the...
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Green Light For Plan To Build World's Tallest Building At Record Speed
The 220-story, 2,750-foot, 90-day Sky City construction project is a go. We've been following Chinese construction firm Broad Sustainable Building's ambitious plan to build the world's tallest...
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Infographic: This Is What's Causing Climate Change
Greenhouse Gas InfographicEcofysWow, maybe we should stop cutting down so many trees. If you tried to list the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, you might say cars, or cows, or...
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Could A Volcano Power America?
Obsidian Flow At Newberry VolcanoJoshua SchreinerAn ambitious experiment is underway to harness the heat of a volcano in central Oregon. The process is green, efficient... and causes earthquakes. In...
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Nicaragua Enlists China To Build An Alternative To The Panama Canal
Gatun Locks, Panama Canal99 years old and still working.Stan Shebs, via Wikimedia Commons"A-UG!," a racing "oooog": Nicaragua! After a century as an only child, the Panama Canal is about to get a...
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A Racquet Made With The World's Strongest Material
Head YouTek Graphene Speed ProBrian KlutchHead's YouTek Graphene Speed Pro is one of the first racquets to deliver both crushing power and precise control. For years, racquet designers at Head...
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Is This Mysterious Silicon Valley Company Helping The NSA Spy On Americans?
Palantir TechnologiesPalantirHey Palantir Technologies: Are you reading this right now? Last night we learned about PRISM, a classified National Security Agency program that involves huge, wide-ranging...
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Envisioning A Future Of Custom-Grown Meat
Bioreactor for Cell CulturesM. Janicki"Today's special meat is a chop of GrƩvy's zebra flank, fresh out of the exercise amplifier and seared in giant squid fat." The era of exotic meats grown to...
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Ew, Gross: Reusable Endoscopes Are Not Clean
DuodenoscopesOpen i betaYeesh. After surveying 275 reusable gastrointestinal endoscopes from U.S. hospitals, researchers found that 15 percent aren't up to cleanliness standards.Gastrointestinal...
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Tamron 18-270 All-In-OneĀ ZOOM LENS [Sponsored Post]
Focal length: 18mm Exposure: F/8 1/1000 sec ISO200 Aperture priority modeWherever your journey leads, compelling moments await. The versatile Tamron 15X all-in-one 18-270mm travel lens effortlessly...
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A Mind-Bending Gun Rack Illusion And Other Amazing Images From This Week
A Gun Rack IllusionAs part of an exhibition, Chinese artist Liu Bolin dressed himself up in gun-rack-decorated camouflage and stepped in front of a, well, gun rack. This was the awesome result. See...
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Let's All Just Believe What This Shifty CIA-Funded Data-Collecting Company Says
Palantir: Just A Regular Silicon Valley StartupPalantirReally: Why would they bother telling us the truth? Palantir Technologies has denied, sort of, that it is involved in the massive PRISM scandal,...
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How Do You Move An Entire Bridge?
Sellwood Bridge The Oregonian, Randy C. RasmussenMind the 3,400-ton truss! The ProblemWhen the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, was built in 1925, it wasn't designed to carry 30,000 vehicles a day....
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How I Survived A Week Without Food
Step 10Blend it up!Julie BeckI consumed nothing but Soylent, a food-replacing beverage, for a week. Here's what happened to me (and my poop). Click here for a step-by-step guide to making homemade...
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A Concise History Of The NSA's Online Spying Program PRISM
The Ugliest Power Point SlideDetails NSA data acquisition under the PRISM program.NSA, via Washington PostCrucial to the program? Online tech companies. This was a bad week for spies, and a great week...
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Do Adults Keep Making New Brain Cells? Cold War-Era Radiation Reveals Answer
Stokes TestThe Stokes atmospheric nuclear test, conducted in Nevada in 1957Nevada Division of Environmental ProtectionA different kind of carbon-14 dating When the U.S. and Soviet Union tested nuclear...
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The Week In Numbers: World's Oldest Primate, Big Bang Mystery Solved, And More
Rendering of Archicebus achillesCAS/Xijun Ni55 million years: the age of the sedimentary rock strata in which scientists discovered this skeleton of a Archicebus achilles, the oldest-known primate...
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Let This Rube Goldberg Machine Show You How Cows Eat And Poop
Have a good weekend! Cow from Nova Jiang on Vimeo.Hi, it's late on a Friday, it's raining and horrible in the northeast and I'm drinking whiskey (Ed. note: Dan, didn't I fire you already?) and here's,...
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