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FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?
Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F-as hot as the sun's surface-and would instantly roast anyone who found himself there. Then there's...
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The Most Realistic Renderings Of Cloth We've Ever Seen
Rendered ClothMaterials pictured: On the top row, from left to right, linen plain, silk crepe de chine, the front side of polyester satin charmeuse fabric, and the back side of the polyester satin...
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Women Still Less Likely To Commit Corporate Fraud
Martha Stewart, The Exception Rather Than The Rulenrkbeta via Wikimedia CommonsThey're less likely to be recruited to join in on a conspiracy, and when they do, they make a whole lot less money. Even...
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Why So Many Men Kill Their Families On Sundays In August
The ShiningWarner Bros.A study of British "family annihilators" reveals some macabre data. In what must be one of the darkest research projects we've covered, a British team has studied 32 years' worth...
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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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Scientists Achieve On-Demand Quantum Teleportation For The First Time
Quantum Teleportation of Light WavesA Schrödinger's cat is a quantum superposition of two light waves. The two light waves are interpreted respectively as a living cat and a dead cat. Their quantum...
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How Geeks Have Evolved Over Time [Infographic]
The Geek Family TreeFlowtownWhere Star Wars and Star Trek geeks share common ground. Hundreds of years ago, the term geek wasn't as benign as it is today (high fives all around, gang). In 18th-century...
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Rare Video Captures Images Of Isolated Amazon Tribe
A quick glimpse of the Kawahira people By Brazilian law, no one but a select few government workers is allowed to trespass on the land of the Kawahira, a tiny community of nomads that lives in the...
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Baby Monitors Can Be Hacked, And So Can Everything Else
Baby MonitorBaby's first surveillance system.Wikimedia CommonsHackable baby monitors reveal the vulnerability of everyday things. Baby surveillance devices: adorable and practical when used by parents,...
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How Dragonflies Could Help Scientists Build Better Robots
DragonflyDavid O'Carroll, University of Adelaide.Dragonflies process light and dark a little differently than the rest of us. New research into the visual system of dragonflies could one day improve...
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Watch This Tiny Robot Leap Over Walls [Video]
Hello, TailBot! With the goal of making a robot that can run, jump, and maneuver in the air, a student team at Michigan State University came up with this monkey-like miniature machine: TailBot. It is...
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Exclusive: The Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Washington Post Through...
SEA Hacks WaPovia SEA TwitterBy using a link-referral service called Outbrain, the Syrian Electronic Army dove into the Washington Post. Today, the Washington Post (newly owned by Amazon's Jeff Bezos)...
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Why Are These Two Scientists Sneezing On A Rabbit?
Mechanical sneezer, 1940Popular Science archivesA bizarre scene from the Popular Science archives Let's take a break from trying to wrap our brains around quantum teleportation and robot aliens, and...
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NASA Has Stopped Trying To Fix The Kepler Space Telescope
Kepler Space TelescopeKepler is designed to look for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars in a temperate "Goldilocks zone," where temperatures are right for liquid water. It stares at a patch of...
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Why Some Male Turkeys Are So Damned Sexy
Wild TurkeyVince pahkala via Wikimedia CommonsIt's not what you have, it's how you use it. For male wild turkeys, reproduction is an all-family effort. Less attractive males often don't get to mate,...
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Meet The Man Behind Palantir, The CIA's Shifty Data-Mining Contractor
Anarchy Of ThingsPaul LachineOver at Forbes, Andy Greenberg has penned a fascinating profile of Alex Karp, the CEO of the CIA-funded data mining company Palantir. Palantir applies Silicon Valley...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: The Pull-Out Method Is Not Great For Avoiding...
I Get The Joke But Read This Post Pleasevia SnorgTeesIt's even worse for avoiding herpes. Today in scientific studies that confirm the obvious, we have a paper from the Duke University Medical Center...
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FYI: Can A Paper Cut Be Deadly?
Slit of the TongueFor some people, a sliced tongue can be fatal.Erik Isakson/Getty ImagesA person with normal clotting ability would have to lose nearly 40 percent of his blood immediately to die of...
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Big Pic: A Soyuz Astronaut's Space Toilet
Space Toiletvia @Cmdr_HadfieldImagine peeing in this. In space, no one can hear you poop. Or at least, probably not, since you're trying really hard not to poop at all. Because this is what you have to...
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10 Retro DIY Projects To Do Before Summer Ends
Water Ski On A Flying SaucerThe hardest part isn't making the flying saucer, it's staying on!Popular Science Magazine, August 1969Including a backyard trampoline, a playhouse built from window blinds,...
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