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Farmers Rip Up Experimental Golden Rice Plants In The Philippines
A Rice Breeding Plot in the Philippine Rice Research InstituteInternational Rice Research InstituteAs scientists prepare to submit the genetically engineered rice for regulatory approval, some locals...
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A Cloud Room And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Cloud RoomJapanese architectural firm Tetsuo Kondo created this cloud room. Through temperature and humidity control, the architects make a cloud and keep it at a certain height. Just climb the...
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Here's What Happens In A Single Second On The Internet [Infographic]
Reddit Votes CastOne Second on the InternetFour million people laugh at the same cat in unison, probably. The Internet is so mind-bogglingly huge that it's tough to grasp exactly how gigantic it is....
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Watch These Robotic Plant Roots Grow Like The Real Thing [Video]
Robotic Rootsvia Italian Institute of TechnologyOne day, they could be used to monitor soil. Or your inner organs. This robot is putting down roots. Recently at the Living Machines conference in...
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Watch A Homemade Coilgun Destroy A Laptop
It's an electric gun, boogie woogie woogie. This homemade gun uses electromagnetic coils to send steel rods flying at a speed of 138 feet per second. Pressing the trigger loads a steel rod into the...
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Sally Ride Gets Posthumous Medal Of Freedom
Sally RideNASARide on. Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut to go to space, will get a posthumous Medal of Freedom, the U.S. White House announced yesterday.Ride flew aboard the shuttle...
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TV Footage Shows Some Of The First Polio Shots Given In The U.S.
School Polio Shot, 1955A boy grimaces as he receives one of the first polio shots ever dispensed in Roanoke, Virginia.WSLS-TV footage archived by the University of Virginia LibraryA recently digitized...
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What Are Your Options Now For Secure Email?
Fairly Secure, Actuallyvia Creative Commons SearchIt's shockingly, disturbingly easy for the government to snoop on your emails. Here are your weapons in the fight for your email privacy. Many of us...
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The Week In Numbers: The First Lab-Grown Burger, 3-D Printed Body Parts, And...
The Body ShopKevin Hand$600,000: the funding the National Institutes of Health has awarded to bioprinting projects since 2007. See how 3-D printed body parts will revolutionize medicine.20,000: the...
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Sanjay Gupta: Only 6 Percent Of Marijuana Research Considers Medical Benefits
Sanjay GuptaCubie King via Wikimedia CommonsIt's impressive researchers have managed to conduct even that many studies. Sanjay Gupta, neurosurgeon and CNN's chief medical correspondent, is officially...
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FYI: Can Staying Positive Extend Your Life?
Staying PositiveJoan Vicent Canto Roig/Getty ImagesMaybe, but no one has ever proved it. The belief that optimism can keep you alive-or at least stave off cancer-gained traction after the release of a...
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Does CTE, The Brain Disease Found In NFL Players, Really Exist?
Head To HeadFrom the Centers of Disease Control and PreventionA new study found cognitively impaired former football players aren't much different from non-players with cognitive impairments. Last...
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Big Pic: A Radar View Of More Than 3,000 Miles On Mars
A radar view of the southern highlands of MarsESA/NASA/JPL/ASI/Univ. RomeIncluding a giant asteroid crater! The European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter snapped this radar image of the red planet's...
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A Size Comparison Of Sci-Fi's Greatest Machines And Monsters [Infographic]
Size Comparison Of Everythinglexinator117How does Godzilla compare to an AT-AT walker? Plus, how they stack up to real stuff, like the Sydney Opera House. DeviantART user lexinator117 created this...
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7 Awesome Photos Of The 2013 Perseid Meteor Shower
Perseid in Anza, CaliforniaTom Munnecke on Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0Stargaze without leaving your laptop. Missed the peak of the Perseid meteor shower last night, or just want to compare shots? Check out...
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Watch A 3-D Printed Robot Slide Under Doors
The Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot is also pretty good at pool. Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab created the Sprawl Tuned Autonomous Robot, a 3-D...
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For Political Candidates, All Twitter Publicity Is Good Publicity
Tweeting To VoteScreenshot via TwitterMore mentions on Twitter mean more votes for a candidate, whether the buzz is positive or negative. Good news, Anthony Weiner? New research suggests that the more...
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From Charles And Ray Eames, A Simple Machine With One Function: Not To Have...
The Do-Nothing MachineRalph Crane-Time & Life Pictures/Getty ImagesThe "Do-Nothing Machine" was a solar-powered ode to originality and wonder. Husband-and-wife duo Charles and Ray Eames were two of...
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Kim Jong-Un Approves A (Possibly?) North Korea-Made Smartphone
Kim Jong-Un With The "Arirang"KCNA via ShanghaiistNorth Korea leader Kim Jong-Un has given his approval to the first smartphone made in the hermit country, according to the official North Korea news...
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FYI: What Is The Evolutionary Purpose Of Tickling?
Tee HeeMany apes, including orangutans, tickle each otherThomas Marent/Getty ImagesYou probably know that you can't tickle yourself. And although you might be able to tickle a total stranger, your...
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