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In Japan, Cyclists Can Now Store Bikes In Underground Robot Cavern
Prevent your bike from being stolen by keeping it in a batcave basically In most cities, being a cyclist means you will have your vehicle stolen and/or vandalized on a semi-regular basis. That's just...
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How Not To Be A Dad: The Latest Science Of Male Birth Control
How can we prevent these spoons, uh, sperms, from being successful?Sexy Eggs on FlickrExamining 8 promising methods of male contraception in development. Happy Father's Day! Click here to enter the...
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The 10 Coolest Innovations We Saw At E3 2013
E3 LobbyColin LecherThe greatest games and gear from Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, plus awesome hardware and indie fare. The big three--Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo--came out firing on all cylinders...
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The Energy Fix: Engineering Triumphs Over Wave And Tidal Forces
Water EnergyEngineers designed TidGen, which is 98-feet wide and 31-feet tall, for tidal bodies, such as bays, between 60 and 150 feet deep. • A permanent-magnet generator mounted between the four...
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Watch This Insane Helicopter-Bike Fly Around
Surface-bound Citibikes are so last week. Hey, cyclists: why are you still bicycling on asphalt like chumps when there's this (totally safe-looking, not at all super-dangerous) flying bicycle? Just...
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What Happens To Women When They're Denied Abortions?
Coming to TermSan Luis Obispo County CaliforniaA first-of-its-kind study tracks the health of women who are denied abortions. Plenty of research has examined how getting an abortion affects women's...
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Microwave Balloons Could Form New Super-Fast Transatlantic Trading Line
Hot Air Balloons above AlbuquerqueBill Johnson, via Wikimedia CommonsThe new frontier in finance? Perseus Telecom, a network provider that specializes in rapid trading, is seriously looking into an...
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FYI: What Makes Tattoos Permanent?
How tattoos workSCIENCE INK by Carl Zimmer. Published by Sterling Publishing © 2011And how does tattoo removal work? It's all about the particles in the tattoo ink's pigment says Dr. Anne Laumann,...
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'NeuroKnitting' Turns Brain Scans Into Personalized Scarves
For if you're just really into expressing yourself through clothing. Have you ever felt your clothing just doesn't say enough about you? As in, you're willing to go to semi-obsessive lengths to show...
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U.S. Supreme Court Rules On Gene Patents
U.S. Supreme CourtUnited States CourtsNaturally occurring genes cannot be patented, but synthetic ones can. The U.S. Supreme Court finally ruled today on patenting breast-cancer genes. The ruling found...
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Ambien Can Improve Your Recall, But Only For Unhappy Memories
Sweet Dreams?Wikimedia CommonsA new study finds that the sleeping pill enhances your ability to consolidate negative emotional memories as you snooze. If you're having a rough day, popping a sleeping...
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School District To Pay Science Teachers More Than English Teachers
Students In LaosWikimedia CommonsWelcome to market-based compensation. For most public schools, teachers get paid on the same scale regardless of which subject they teach. But a Colorado school...
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Green Coffee Bean Extract Probably Won't Help You Lose Weight
Unroasted coffee beansDan Bollinger via Wikimedia CommonsAnd, according to this new mouse study, the common diet supplement might make you more likely to develop type 2 diabetes. While drinking coffee...
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New Hope For Regrowing Severed Limbs, Just Like Lizards' Tails
Wrinkly FingerWikimedia CommonsPretty good superpower to have, if you ask me. Some lizards and amphibians have the ability to regrow severed tails or limbs--in fact, the blue-tailed skink abandons its...
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A Beautiful Timelapse Video Of A Rotating Thunderstorm In Texas
Slow down a supercell, add some angelic music, and it almost looks welcoming. Supercells are tornado-like, rotating thunderstorms. They can be terrifying. But this timelapse, taken by photographer Mike...
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What Can We Learn From Spying On Our Own Metadata?
Big DataDARPAWhy let the NSA have all the fun? Okay, so the National Security Agency is sitting on a treasure trove of all your metadata. What exactly can they learn about you from something as vague...
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Faroe Islands Wants To Sequence The Genes Of Every One Of Its Citizens
The Faroe IslandsThe Faroe Islands look lovely! Very pretty place.Wikimedia CommonsAt least, everyone who wants it. But do they want it? Welcome to the Faroe Islands, a beautiful rocky archipelago in...
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Cats Have 'Timeshares,' Kitty Cams Reveal
SamanthaSamantha was not a part of the BBC cat behavior study, but she is still very nice to look at.Evan Kafka via Suzanne LaBarreFindings form one new research project tracked 50 cats in a village...
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New York Considers 3-D Printed Gun Ban
Cody Wilson tests the 3-D Printed GunDefense DistributedLegislators try to solve a gun problem that doesn't yet exist Two bills in New York City aim to keep 3-D printed guns off the streets.The first...
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The First Known Fluorescent Vertebrate Is An Animal You've Probably Eaten Before
Glowing EelAkiko Kumagai, Atsushi MiyawakiYou can really taste those fluorescent proteins. There are many animals that display fluorescence. They have proteins in their tissue that glow when hit with...
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