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FYI: How Long Would It Take Piranhas To Eat A Person?
Feeding FrenzyAdek Berry/Getty ImagesIs the fish's deadly rep justified? After a trip to the Amazon jungle, President Teddy Roosevelt famously reported seeing a pack of piranhas devour a cow in a few...
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The Biggest Data Thefts In Recent History [Infographic]
Major Breaches in 2013Information is BeautifulIt's a big-data look at the loss of lots of big data. That's pretty big. The internet is a giant vault where people store some of their most private...
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Hack Takes Over Your Car's Steering While You're Driving
HighwayTennessee GovernmentBaby, you can drive my car -- whether I like it or not. A pair of researchers have demonstrated they're able to take over the steering and braking of two popular models of...
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Spy Agencies Have Banned Lenovo Computers, Fearing Chinese Hardware Hacks
Lenovo Yoga 13 in Laptop ModeAs a regular laptop. Real thin and light.Dan BracagliaNo Thinkpad for you, NSA employee. Lenovo is either the world's biggest or second-biggest PC manufacturer, depending...
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The Trendiest Names In U.S. History [Infographic]
Trendy NamesFlowing DataIs your name Aja? Your parents probably listened to too much Steely Dan. The Social Security Administration has a database on names reaching back to 1880. You can check out the...
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What Happens When You Fire An AK-47 Underwater [Video]
It's a science lesson masquerading as a slow-motion video! The AK-47 is an iconic assault rifle, popular among revolutionaries and known for its rugged, reliable design. Thanks to the team at Smarter...
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The 'Greenest' Skyscraper In NYC Is Actually The Least Green
Bank of America TowerWikimedia CommonsNew York's Bank of America Tower, a sprawling, 1,200-foot skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, was lauded as a triumph of green engineering when it opened in 2010. But...
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The Trippiest Time Lapse Video We've Ever Seen
Dragon, with Town in the BackgroundSculptures by Ricardo A Breceda. Photo by Gavin Heffernan.The night sky + weird dragon sculptures = total mind screw Just in case the cosmos are not fantastic enough...
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How Long Before Our Cars Can Talk To Each Other?
Department of Transportation vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) programThe National Transportation Safety Board is pushing for an accelerated rollout of vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems. We've spilled a...
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What Happens When Gary Shteyngart Wears Google Glass
Shteyngart Wears GlassEmiliano GranadoGary Shteyngart, author of the lovely Absurdistan and Super Sad True Love Story, was one of the unlikeliest winners of one of Google's first test pairs of Google...
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BMW's First True Electric Car Is Here
The BMW i3BMWThe former concept i3 has been made real, and might be the most interesting electric vehicle we've seen in years. BMW isn't entirely new to electric vehicles, or EVs; the company has been...
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Should We Genetically Engineer The Orange To Save It?
Healthy Oranges in a Florida GroveU.S. Agricultural Research ServiceA deadly disease threatens oranges all around the world. Orange growers are considering genetically modifying your morning OJ. Why? A...
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A Boeing Exec On How Jet Fuel Will Become Sustainable
Billy GloverTodd DetwilerBilly Glover explains how petroleum-based aviation fuel could disappear The ChangeAviation has always run on petroleum. In fact, jet fuel had been the same from the dawn of the...
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A History Of Times The World Didn't End [Infographic]
Haha, now you probably feel pretty silly, 20th-century Apocalypse predictors. Hello! If you're reading this, and you are not an alien race that has extinguished humanity, then the apocalypse hasn't...
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Grizzly Bear Survival: Yet Another Reason Not To Shoot Yellowstone Wolves
A Grizzly Bear In Yellowstone National ParkWikimedia CommonsPro-wolf-shooting activists should check out this study to see just how beneficial wolves are to the Yellowstone ecosystem--and the survival...
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This Voice-Activated Organizing Robot Makes Sure You'll Never Lose A Screw
Hear And Obey StorageBot follows voice commands to retrieve parts listed in a database. Just one command can open a specific drawer or all the ones that contain, for example, screws.Courtesy Danh...
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The 25 Best Nerd Road Trips
Twenty-five curious, mysterious, or otherwise beguiling destinations to satisfy your inner science-history geek In the past 16 months, writers Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley have toured 150 of the...
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Could Dragons Have Existed If Evolution Had Taken A Different Turn?
Group EffortDragons don't exist (as far as we know), but some of their individual characteristics can be found throughout the animal kingdom.iStock (2); Dorling Kindersley/Getty Images; Richard T....
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Americans Are Living Longer. Are Those Extra Years Healthy Ones?
Healthy LivingU.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (PIO)A new study uses better death data to try to answer a long-standing debate. In 1960, Americans could expect to live, on average, to just...
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Good News For Flexible Electronics: Scientists Invent A Stretchy Gold Conductor
Gold ConductorResearchers embedded a sample of polyurethane with gold nanoparticles. When stretched to extremes the material maintained conductivity.courtesy of Joseph XuA new nanoparticle material...
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