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How To Turn Garden Beets Into A Drum Machine
BeetBoxCourtesy Scott GarnerBecome a "beet-boxing" DJ in a weekend. People conduct electric charges, and so do vegetables. This simple fact spurred designer Scott Garner to build the Beet Box: a...
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FIDO Would Enable Dog-To-Human Communication
Who's The Best Bomb Detector? Who's The Best Bomb Detector?Jackson, a U.S. Air Force Belgian shepherd, hangs out on a giant scary tank before a mission in Iraq.Staff Sgt. Stacy L. PearsallThe device...
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Interplanetary Laser Could Send Messages To Mars Or Jupiter
Lasers In SpaceDirected Energy Directorate, US Air Force via Wikimedia CommonsPew pew! With the help of a new laser ranging system, we might soon be able to send a laser beam to Mars--and hit our...
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Meet The Popular Science #CrowdGrant Challenge Finalists
The Popular Science #CrowdGrant ChallengeFrom more than 300 reader ideas, we chose 24 winners. Help crowdfund these amazing projects at popularscience.rockethub.com through Aug. 30. When we asked...
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The Prettiest Visualization Of Social Media Chatter We've Ever Seen
London Digital MapBrendan DawesMuch prettier than a Twitter timeline. To commemorate the launch of 4G services in the UK, artist Brendan Dawes was commissioned to create these beautiful "digital...
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The Curious Genius Of Amar Bose
Amar BoseMichael DarterThe acoustic innovator and founder of the Bose Corporation died Friday. This is the story of how his insatiable curiosity helped launch a better future. "Better Living Through...
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This Is What Experiencing A Hot Flash Looks Like
Hot FlashesBrain regions activated by hot flashes. If you can read the numbers, they correspond to (1) the bilateral insula, (2) the brain stem, (3) the basal ganglia, (4) the anterior cingulate...
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Can Dogs Watch TV?
Dog Watching TVWikimedia CommonsAnd how do they feel about the season premiere of The Newsroom? A TV channel explicitly aimed at canine viewers launched in Israel earlier this year, following a...
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'Dronecleaners' Deliver Pants By Quadcopter
Pants, dropped! What's the best way to convince millenials to get their suits drycleaned? No one knows, but Philadelphia's Manayunk Cleaners is trying drones.The drone is a modified DJI Phantom...
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More U.S. Hospitals Now Guarantee Equal Care For Gay Patients
A Doctor's VisitCity of Plano, TexasBasic gains We've seen a lot of changes in gay marriage in the U.S. recently, both in law and in culture. Here's another, more fundamental, place where rules and...
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Garmin Launches Portable Head-Up Display
Garmin portable head-up displayGarminHead-up display systems have been around for decades but despite their added safety (by allowing you to keep your eyes on the road) you still won't find it a...
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Neptune Has A New Moon. What Will We Call It?
New Moon For NeptuneNASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI)Naming things in space can get political. Earlier today, NASA announced the Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a brand new moon in the solar...
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Tooth Broken Off In Prey's Tail Shows Failed T. Rex Hunt
<i>T. Rex</i> Fossil Mounted in the Carnegie Museum of Natural HistoryScottRobertAnselmo on Wikimedia CommonsThis bit of tail is the first hard evidence of a T. rex hunt in action Perhaps...
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Breaking: NASA Aborts Spacewalk Due To Water In Astronaut's Helmet
Updating live. Live streaming by UstreamAccording to the AP's Twitter feed, NASA has aborted a routine removal and replacement (R&R) spacewalk due to a "water leak in astronaut's' [sic] helmet."...
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The 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft's Imagine Cup
The Imagine Cup winners gather onstage at the awards ceremonyJulie BeckA quick blood type test, an app that syncs music playback on your phone and more Click here to enter the gallery.At the afterparty...
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Airships Are Not The Future Of Flight
Airship DevelopmentCourtesy Northrop GrummanBad news for blimp fans Airship development tends to come in waves, the most recent of which arrived in the mid-2000s. Facing two wars and a need for new...
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FDA Approves Brainwave Device For Diagnosing ADHD
Kids Wearing Brainwave CapsThese kids donned electroencephalogram caps, not the NEBA device described below, during the U.S. National Institutes of Health's Take Your Child to Work Day.NIH RecordA...
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A Subway Map Of The Metabolism [Infographic]
Subway To MetabolismClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Richard Wheeler via Visual.lyJust take the Krebs Cycle train to the Carbon transfer! We've seen metabolism maps before, but never...
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If The Sun Went Out, How Long Could Life On Earth Survive?
Solar prominenceNASA/Solar Dynamics ObservatoryDon't worry, you'll have time to post your goodbye selfies to Facebook. If you put a steamy cup of coffee in the refrigerator, it wouldn't immediately...
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The Most Relaxing Thing You'll See All Day: Giant Silver Pillows Swaying In A...
Impressionist WavesNils VölkerAnd they sound like the sea! Isn't art the best? Thirty Three from Nils Völker on Vimeo.Berlin-based media artist Nils Völker has a passion for cushions. Völker's work...
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