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Here's What Wi-Fi Might Look Like If We Could See It
What Wi-Fi Looks LikeNickolay Lamm/M. Browning VogelLike a rainbow exploding, basically Wi-Fi is a series of invisible waves, streaming along through our houses and offices and planes. What would those...
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Android's Deadly Fragmentation, Visualized
Android Fragmentation by Devicevia OpenSignalFragmented OS version, screen size, screen ratio, processor, memory, camera, brand... "Fragmentation," when applied to Android, which it often is, refers to...
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Internet-Based Psychotherapy Actually Works
Internet therapyDreamstime/ Joey CarmichaelIts effects may even last longer than face-to-face therapy, new research suggests. Lying on your therapist's couch might be a thing of the past. Why bother,...
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Big Pic: An X-Ray Telescope Shifts Its Gaze
X-Ray Slew TracksA. Read (University of Leicester)/ESAThe European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space telescope has been in orbit since 1999, and it's constantly collecting information, even when it's...
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Bacteria That Cause Gum Disease Linked To Alzheimer's
Toothy FunMaryland Department of Health and Mental HygieneWreaking havoc in your mouth and head Could Alzheimer's disease originate in your mouth?It sounds like a strange idea, but scientists have...
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Did This Monster Slingshot Just Set A World Record?
Unfortunately, global slingshot record-keeping is woefully remiss. In the above video, Jörg Sprave of The Slingshot Channel fires a 1-inch steel ball with an arm-braced slingshot, at a speed of 207...
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How To Build A 3-D Printer For Space
3-D Printer Gets Tested in MicrogravityMade in SpacePlus, 3-D printed rocket parts are looking pretty good these days. You knew it would happen. NASA is planning to send a 3-D printer aboard the...
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Herpes Virus Shoots DNA Into Human Cells With Crazy High Internal Pressure
Herpes Entering A CellBauer et al.Herpes, having a blast. Scientists have long theorized that herpes viruses are so stuffed with genetic material that infecting a host cell is as easy as popping a...
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Check Out The Document That Created NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958National ArchivesThe National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 started it all. Happy birfday, NASA! This document is the National Aeronautics and Space...
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Why Hasn't There Been A Multitouch Piano Before Now?
Thanks to this Kickstarter project, pianists can finally introduce elegant wiggly vibrato into their playing--without getting a new piano. The venerable piano allows for ten (or more!) notes to be...
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What Would Happen If Everyone Peed In The Ocean At The Same Time?
When You Gotta Go...One woman finds out what really happens when humans "go" in the water.Wikimedia CommonsA thought experiment Lauren Wolf, an associate editor at Chemical & Engineering News and...
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Blood-Sample Robot Misses Veins About As Often As Trained Humans Do
Veebot at WorkScreenshot from "Robot Draws Blood" by spectrummag on YouTubeBut the robot's makers are hoping to make it more accurate in the next few months. Would you let a robot draw your blood?...
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Could Parables Help Solve The World's Thorniest Problems?
How the Asteroid Saved MankindA just-so storyRichard Gayle via Consider the FactsA finalist in our #CrowdGrant challenge hopes to inspire people to think about the world's toughest problems in...
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The NSA Sucks More Than You Thought
*National Surveillance AgencyWikimedia Commons (seal and camera)/Joey CarmichaelThe Guardian just exposed the NSA's "widest-reaching" surveillance program, "XKeyscore." While most of us keep going...
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Crowdfund This Slingshot-Inspired Space Railroad
Slingatron Concept ArtHyperV Technologies CorpA new alternative to rocket fuel? It's very expensive to put things into outer space. So HyperV Technologies, of Chantilly, Va., has begun a Kickstarter...
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Mystery Animal: Who Is This Fanged Furface?
Mystery Animal Contest: July 30th, 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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Why Not Just Dispose Of Nuclear Waste In The Sun?
Rocket to the SunDo the benefits of sending nuclear waste into the sun outweigh the risks? NASAWe could do it, but should we? After FYI answered why dumping the world's nuclear waste into a volcano...
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The Best-Looking Laboratory-Grown Ear Yet
Bioengineered EarsLeft: The 1997 bioengineered ear implanted on a mouse. Center: The most recent bioengineered ear shown on its own. Right, top and bottom: The lastest bioengineered ear is flexible,...
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Starbucks Taps Google To Improve Coffee Shop Wi-Fi
Blazing Fast WiFi?Business WireStarbucks seems to have embraced the fact that very few people actually go to coffee shops to sit and drink coffee nowadays. For cafes, solid Wi-Fi connection is about as...
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Tiny Poisonous Trees Could Fight Climate Change In The Desert
Jatropha curcasWikimedia CommonsLike something straight out of Dune, but the boring, terraforming parts. Five German scientists have proposed a new strategy for mitigating the effects of climate...
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