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Watch Two Astronauts Perform A Spacewalk, Right Now
Hey you. Click this. There are some dudes walking around in space right now. Live streaming video by UstreamRight now, Alexander Mizurkin and Fyodor Yurchikhin, two Russian cosmonauts, as they call...
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The Robotic Search For Lost World War II Airmen
CorsairAn engineer uses high-frequency sonar to image the fuselage of a Corsair near Palau. Dozens of World War II aircraft lie in the waters surrounding the island chain.Courtesy Scripps Institution...
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Ex-Chief Of U.S. Military Supplier To Go To Prison For Insider Trading
Interceptor Body ArmorDon't worry, the armor still works.Wikimedia CommonsAnd fraud. And lying to auditors. And obstruction of justice. Boy did this guy screw up. The U.S. invasion of Iraq combined...
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New GPS Receiver Offers Navigation Accurate To An Inch
Piksi GPS On An OctorotorThe Piksi is the little square with wires.Swift NavigationGreat for tiny robots! GPS is really good at finding where people are, typically with a margin of error of just a few...
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The Secret, 'Vaguely Racist' History Of MSG Fear-Mongering
MSG CrystalsWikimedia CommonsLooking for a nice long-form article to read this weekend? We recommend you head over to BuzzFeeá´… and check out this feature on the history of MSG-the much and unfairly...
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How We Remember To Remember
Headscratcher Johnny Automatic via Wikimedia CommonsThe way our brain handles remembering to remember something, called prospective memory, has been somewhat of a mystery to scientists, until now....
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Secret Agent Swimmer?
Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We have a winner!So, here are the rules: To...
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This Gadget Automatically Tunes Any Guitar In Seconds
TronicalTuneGibson debuted the system as the Min-ETune on several models last year.Claire BenoistThe TronicalTune is your very own pocket roadie Throughout their 23-year history, automatic guitar...
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5 Body Parts Scientists Can 3-D Print
KidneysTeam: Wake Forest Institute For Regenerative Medicine How It's Made: A 3-D bioprinter deposits multiple types of kidney cells-cultivated from cells taken by a biopsy-while simultaneously...
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A Yarn-Bombed Bridge And Other Amazing Images From This Week
A Yarn-Bombed BridgeAs a celebration of Pittsburgh's bridges and art scene, a team of 1,800 volunteers covered the city's Andy Warhol bridge with blankets. Looks cool, and keeps the bridge warm in the...
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How To Build Your Own DIY Centrifuge
The DremelfugeSon of AlanGet a lab-grade centrifuge (normally $2,000) for 50 bucks. For any garage-ista ready to tackle molecular biology, the centrifuge is an essential laboratory tool. Its...
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CIA Kept Area 51 Secret Because Rumors Cooler Than Reality
A Pair Of U-2 SpyplanesOne the left is an original U-2, with an 80 feet wingspan, and on the right is a U-2R with a wingspan of 103 feet.Wikimedia CommonsA spy plane, an intelligence agency, and the...
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The Week In Numbers: On-Demand Quantum Teleportation, A New Mammal Species,...
Hello, OlinguitoMark Gurney2 pounds: the weight of the olinguito, an adorable carnivorous mammal species just discovered in South America20 millikelvins: the temperature at which scientists recently...
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FYI: When Will We Evolve Out Of Our Useless Appendages?
Wisdom Teeth Are On Their Way OutIt will take us a long time to evolve out of our wisdom teeth.p_x_g on FlickrNever. We're probably stuck with our appendix, pinky toes, tailbone and just about all of...
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Watch One Martian Moon Eat Another [Video]
The Mars rover Curiosity captures images of a rare moon-on-moon eclipse. The larger of Mars's two moons, the lumpy-shaped Phobos, is teensy, with a diameter less than one percent the size of our own...
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5 Ways Gestural Control Could Change Everything
Robotic SurgeryWith accuracy of up to .001 millimeters, a Leap Motion device could enable doctors to perform precise surgical procedures by manipulating robotic arms. It could also allow them to treat...
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Photographer Turns Water Into Ghostly Faces
Faces of WaterMoses HacmonSeriously, try not to see faces in these images. By using a special type of film that takes a physical impression of moving water, photographer Moses Hacmon created these...
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Interview: Stock Photomicrographer Dennis Kunkel
Cool BacteriaDennis KunkelEver wonder where those beautiful, bright photos of amoebas and bacteria and other tiny weird stuff come from? Somebody's got to take and process those photographs, and our...
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The Original Sail Plans for America's Oldest Warship
The U.S.S. ConstitutionNaval History PhotographsThis famous ship beat up another famous ship 201 years ago today. On the afternoon of August 19, 1812, about 400 miles southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia,...
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Should Math Really Be A Required Subject?
The novelist Nicholson Baker makes a case against algebra Nicholson Baker hates math.* The novelist and nonfiction writer spends almost eight pages of this month's Harper's Magazine making the case...
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