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A Florida Man Woke Up In A Motel Room Speaking Only Swedish. Could It Happen...
A cheat sheet for the strange case of Michael Boatwright, the 61-year-old who reportedly forgot his native language. Michael Boatwright, a Florida man found unconscious in a California Motel 6 months...
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Should Automakers Get Out Of The Infotainment Business?
Volkswagen iBeetle and iBeetle CabrioletVolkswagenWhen Apple's App Store debuted in 2008, automakers saw change a-comin'. Since then, they've been scrambling to find ways to integrate apps into...
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Free Software Tool Aims To Fight Government Secrecy
This crowdfunded Freedom Of Information Act algorithm seeks to liberate guarded knowledge. The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), first enacted in 1966 provides a way for citizens, activists, and...
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Machine Squeezes Drinking Water From Your Sweaty T-Shirt
Sweat MachineUNICEFTasty I think the question here isn't whether you'd drink your own, but whether you'd drink someone else's. One company has designed a system, called Sweat Machine, to wring sweat...
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10 Electric Race Cars, From The Dragstrip To Pikes Peak
2014 Nissan ZEOD RC Electric Race CarClick here to enter the galleryElectric cars are certainly becoming a more familiar sight on the roads these days, but in the ultra-competitive world of...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Long-Snouted Creature?
Mystery Animal Contest: July 19th, 2013Wikimedia CommonsGuess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory,...
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Listen To 130 Years Of Global Warming, Played On The Cello
A University of Minnesota undergrad turned more than a century of temperature change data into music. This is one of the few instances when something really is better when expressed through song....
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Private Company To Put A Telescope On The Moon
International Lunar ObservatoryInternational Lunar Observatory Association/Moon Express, Inc.Lunar citizen science by 2016! Private space exploration is coming to the Moon, and soon. The world's first...
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A Smooth, 3-D-Printed, Multicolored, High-Resolution Vase
ProDesk3DBotObjectsNo more lines in your 3-D printed objects! Desktop 3-D printers often have a resolution problem. Resolution refers to the size of the stream of molten plastic laid down by the...
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The Week In Numbers: New Dinosaur Discovered, The World's Largest Virus, And...
Jang BogoSpace Group and KOPRI. Ice Lab commissioned by British Council and curated by The Arts Catalyst.2014: the year this aerodynamic, flying saucer-like research station is set to open in...
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Awesome Future Job: Crew A Luxury Wind Turbine In The Middle Of The Ocean
Wind turbine loft conceptIs this the future caretakers of industrial-strength electricity generators or luxury condos? Both!MORPHOCODENew concept art imagines offshore wind farms with super-chic lofts...
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
End Of The InterfaceDavid Holz [left] and Michael Buckwald have built a device called the Leap Motion controller that allows users to interact with computers with a wave of a hand.Cody PickensHow two...
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FYI: Could A Human Beat A T. Rex In Arm Wrestling?
T. Rex Vs. StalloneWarner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection; iStockA paleontologist examines the evidence. "First, we're assuming that the T. rex won't just eat the person, right?" asks Jack Conrad, a...
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Polio Vaccinators Face Deadly Risks In Pakistan
Polio DropsA child gets polio drops during a vaccination campaign in Nepal.Adam Bjork, CDCIn regions where polio is endemic, anti-vaccination views are tied to politics. Here's another twist on...
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Board Games Go Digital
Home Tabletop Computer The glass screen can withstand an eight-ounce steel ball dropped from a height of 39 inches.Sam KaplanA home computer that transforms into a tabletop game center When Microsoft...
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UK's Anti-Pornography Plan Is Scary, Pointless Grandstanding
Cameron's Speechvia Prime Minister's OfficeThe U.K. Prime Minister today proposed a sweeping set of internet filtering--some would say censorship--laws. They will go nowhere. U.K. Prime Minister David...
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MIT Computer Software Makes The Internet 3 Times Faster
Every Day Of My Life Up-CloseMarcin IgnacBy generating algorithms that prioritize where to send data, the computer outwits human solutions to network congestion. If you're reading this, you're probably...
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How To Design Aircraft Carriers For Drone Warfare
X-47B successfully lands on the U.S.S. George H.W. BushU.S. NavyDefense Tech has an intriguing story about the next generation of aircraft carriers. One of the bigger innovations in the upcoming...
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Check Out The First Trailer For Neil deGrasse Tyson's 'Cosmos'
Oh, man. Oh, man. (Please be amazing.) It's awesome on its own that Neil deGrasse Tyson is hosting a new mini-series. It's doubly awesome that the astrophysicist/science educator/Jon Stewart-corrector...
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THE SCIENCE OF ALCOHOL AGING [SPONSORED ARTICLE]
Glenfiddich®The complete science of barrel-aging whisky is something we have only recently come to understand. In the 1970s we began to uncover the full details of what happens when the Glenfiddich...
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