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Big Pic: Astronauts Practice For Space In An Italian Cave
Staff During a Caves Program Dry Run, June 2013ESA-V. CrobuIt's gorgeous down there. Who are these (other)worldly folks? They're a team of European Space Agency scientists, and they're visiting an...
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Entrepreneurs Were More Likely To Cause Trouble As Teens, Study Says
Bill Gates, 1977The Microsoft co-founder was arrested in 1977 for a traffic violation.via mugshots.org"Disrupting" norms is profitable when you're a 35-year-old tech maven. When you're 16, it just...
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First Inductively Charged City Bus System Now Rolling
Wirelessly Charged Electric BusesKAISTOne South Korean city started testing them yesterday. Here's one way you could charge electric cars in the future. A South Korean city is testing electric buses...
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Hiroshima Visualized
Hiroshima MushroomMathew LucasEven viewed as abstractions the data have a forceful impact. In the whole of human history thus far, nuclear weapons have been used in anger exactly twice. Sixty-eight...
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The 10 Weirdest-Named Shark Species
Bowmouth GuitarfishThe bowmouth guitarfish is actually a ray, though due to its shark-like body is sometimes called a shark ray. It's just about the coolest-looking shark there is (science). It's found...
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How Biological Patents Promote Research And Save Lives
Patenting PathogensRyan SnookPatenting viruses doesn't restrict research--it gives an incentive to do more research. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people can't patent isolated human genes,...
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19-Year-Old Biotech Enthusiast Will Trade Coffee Beans for Lab Equipment
Unroasted coffee beansDan Bollinger via Wikimedia CommonsAvery Ashley wants to make a deal: his home-roasted coffee beans for lab equipment that'll let him grow his first batch of glowing bugs, so he...
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Low-Income American Preschoolers Are Getting Less Obese
Big Bird Learns About Healthy Eating with First Lady Michelle ObamaLetsMove.govThe trend shows up in 18 U.S. states. After years of White House initiatives, news reports and controversial...
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Patriotic Narcissists Are More Likely To Hate Immigrants
Anti-ImmigrationMikeSchinkel via FlickrThinking "America is the best country in the world" doesn't make you that welcoming to other groups, it turns out. People who have an inflated sense of...
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The 5 Best Party Schools For Science Nerds
Some Pre-Party StudyingUW-MadisonDo you measure tequila shots in an Erlenmeyer flask? Read on. Choosing the right university can seem like the most important decision of your life. And picking the...
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Scientists To Make Deadlier Versions Of H7N9 Bird Flu In Lab
Virus Research SecurityA U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist performs H5N1 research in a biosafety level 3 lab. Scientists will perform H7N9 gain-of-function studies in a...
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Fetal Pain Is A Lie: How Phony Science Took Over The Abortion Debate
Image via Salon.comSuzanne Tucker via ShutterstockNew laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively. This article originally appeared on...
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Super Simple 3-D-Printed Robot Can Inspect Power Lines For Cheap
Don't be surprised to see a few of these inching their way along cables above your head soon. If nothing else, humans have proved amazingly thorough builders of cables. Utility lines are everywhere,...
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Satellite Photos Map The Destruction In Syria
Distribution Of DestructionDigitalGlobeA new report on the city of Aleppo shows where the damage has hit--and it's anything but evenly distributed. How do you document a war zone without putting even...
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Grinding 20-Ton Mirrors For The Giant Magellan Telescope
Giant Magellan TelescopeGMTO CorporationOne of the largest telescopes ever made will reveal previously unobservable facets of our universe's past. The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) will be one of the...
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Tracker Maps Reports Of Food Poisoning On Twitter
Food Poisoning TrackerSedilek et al.Mining tweets for illness-related complaints can tell us what restaurants to avoid when. Twitter isn't as much a micro-blogging site anymore as it is a data pool. It...
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Biggest Japanese Warship Since WWII Will Carry Helicopters, No Planes
Japan's new Izumo helicopter carrierLook at all these streamers. Look at all these streamers on this military vessel!Japanese Ministry of DefenseWe want to know: Can it launch a vertical take-off and...
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Crabs And Lobsters Probably Do Feel Pain, According To New Experiments
CrabbyRed LobsterThe jury's still out, but if there's a ghost of crustaceans past, it's definitely coming back to haunt us. Whether or not crustaceans like crabs and lobsters can feel pain remains a...
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English Speakers Increasingly Use Self-Centered Words Like 'Get' And 'Choose'
Individualistic WordsGreenfield, Psychological Science 2013What changes in language use can tell us about society The words that consistently pop up in published literature can tell us a lot about...
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Photograph Your House Key With This App, Then Print A Copy Anywhere
Screenshot of KeyMe App Scanning a PhotoKeyMeThe app's creators think of it as "lockout insurance." You hear myths of old-school locksmiths who are so in tune with their trade, they're able to copy a...
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