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What Pig Carcasses Could Teach Coroners About Human Death
Burial at Sea Dave ThompsonBurying pigs at sea turns out to be a good way to study how human bodies decay. A dead pig is a good proxy for a dead person: It's roughly the size of a human torso, it has...
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New Self-Aiming Rifle Would Outshoot Human Snipers
Thankfully, it's not for sale TrackingPoint, a company that combines gun tech and software to create super-accurate, easy-to-use rifles, announced yesterday it is developing a new system that would...
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What Does Space Smell Like?
Astro WhiffSpace is full of smells, but mostly the burning odor of hydrocarbons.NASA/Scott Kleinman/Getty ImagesMan, that comet really reeks The final frontier smells a lot like a Nascar race-a bouquet...
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Why The X-47B Failed Its Latest Landing Attempt, And Why It's Still The...
X-47B touch and goMass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Timothy WalterThe X-47B is a technological testbed, the failures of which teach researchers just as much as the successes. The X-47B autonomous...
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Pharma Companies Must End Secret Gifts To Doctors Starting Next Month
Money Man401(K) 2013 via FlickrThe Affordable Care Act's transparency requirements go into effect August 1. Pharmaceutical and medical device companies make it rain on doctors, hospitals and even...
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Has One Laptop Per Child Totally Lost Its Way?
XO Tablet HandleOLPCFrom a UN-distributed high-minded do-gooder machine to a middle-class western kid's alternate Christmas present: a cheap Android tablet. In 2005, Nicholas Negroponte, who previous...
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The Surprising Origin Of Earth's Gold
Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB)In this high-energy event, two neutron stars collide. Scientists believe the glowing aftermath is the origin of elements such as gold.Harvard-Smithsonian Center for AstrophysicsNew...
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The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Change
Climate ChangerAmerican Beaver via Wikimedia CommonsIt's all in the dams. When the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self, cutting down trees and blocking up waterways, it's not just...
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Why Is The CIA Funding Geoengineering Research?
A lake in droughtWikimedia CommonsAt least they aren't trying to drone global warming to death? The Central Intelligence Agency is joining with the National Air and Space Administration, the National...
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New Nano Structure Is The Thinnest Light-Absorber Ever
Thinnest Light AbsorbersConsisting of billions of gold nanodots, these four squares are the thinnest light absorbers ever built.Courtesy of Mark ShwartzNanosize light-absorbers break records for size...
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Before Directing 'District 9,' Neill Blomkamp Illustrated For Popular Science
Helicopter TaxiAs part of that same issue, Blomkamp illustrated this taxi of the future, which promised (and is still promising, presumably) helicopter-like, airplane-speed flight by 2018.Neill...
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To Stop Invasive Carp, Train Them Like Dogs
Just hum really loudly at them. The common carp (Cyprinus carpio) is one of the world's most destructive invasive species, found on almost every continent, screwing things up. But a new method may give...
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"Invisibility Wetsuits" Hide You From Sharks While You Swim
Shark-Proof SuitShark Attack Mitigation Systems via RadiatorSurf's up, dude. The coast of Western Australia has been particularly dangerous place for shark attacks recent years, earning it the...
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By The Numbers: How Twitter Reacted To The George Zimmerman Verdict
George Zimmerman Leaves CourtWikimedia CommonsExpletives not included. In the first 26 hours after the verdict acquitting George Zimmerman in the killing of Trayvon Martin, Twitter exploded. But how do...
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Pay For Your Next Meal With Your Face
Facial Recognition Payment SystemUniqul's new technology uses military grade algorithms to match your photo to your payment account in the database.UniqulThe world's first facial recognition payment...
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Manhattan Inside The Grand Canyon And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Manhattan CanyonFor his digital art project "Merge," Gus Petro imagines what Manhattan would look like in the Grand Canyon and Death Valley. (Spoiler: it looks like a Woody Allen-directed western.) See...
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How Math Could Help Defuse Riots
Rioter LocationsHannah FryRioting behavior isn't so different from shopping behavior--an insight researchers want to use to keep riots at bay. After riots tore across London in 2011, a team of...
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FYI: If A Mosquito Bites Me After I've Had A Beer, Can It Get Drunk?
BarfliesiStockB-b-b-buzzz Shockingly, no major studies have been conducted on this topic. "The implications are, however, profound," says Michael Raupp, an entomologist at the University of Maryland....
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Say Hello To The World's Largest Known Virus
Hello, PandoravirusChantal Abergel and Jean-Michel ClaverieLet's hope it's friendly. The viruses that we're most familiar with, like the influenza virus, are small and simple. Influenza is about 100...
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Attention, Men: HPV Vaccine Effective Against Oral Infections Too
Getting the ShotA 13-year-old boy gets a shot while his mother looks on.James Gathany, Centers for Disease Control and PreventionHPV vaccines have always been advertised as protecting women, but a new...
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