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5 Beloved Scientists Who Were Actually Bullies
Electrocuting animals, stealing credit, self-aggrandizing, and more Unfortunately, scientific genius doesn't necessarily come with superhuman social skills. The great minds on this list may have made...
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Big Pic: Sunrise Over A Dark Earth, As Seen From The ISS
Sunrise over the AleutiansPhoto taken by the Expedition 36 crew on the International Space StationPlus, some cool clouds that form only high above the Earth over polar regions Here's what the land of...
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FYI: What Would Happen If I Ate Nothing But Meat?
Ron Swanson Is a Fictional CharacterThinking about becoming a meatarian? Just know that Ron Swanson may not be a nutritional expertNBCGood ol' meat and potatoes. Without the potatoes. You might get...
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Scan Reveals If Your Civet Poo Coffee Really Comes From Civet Poo
Asian Palm Civet Eating Coffee BerriesLeendertz on Wikimedia CommonsBecause that's what you want, right? When you pay $150 to $230 for a pound of exotic coffee, you want to know it's the real deal....
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No One Wants To Be A Drone Pilot, U.S. Air Force Discovers
Predator Drone PilotWikimedia CommonsThe Air Force's drone program is too unmanned for its own good. While the vast majority of U.S. Air Force pilots still control their aircraft from inside the...
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The Confusing Science Of Whether Video Games Are Ruining Your Life
Controllers FamilyA brief round-up of how video games are destroying your life and also making you a superhuman A good rule of thumb in life is that if you enjoy something, it must be terrible for you....
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Shorter Workday Isn't The Key To Happiness, Says Bummer Of A Study
Fewer Work Hours Doesn't Mean More HappinessDreamstimeWorkaholics of the world, rejoice? We'll all be just as unhappy with a shorter work week. When it comes to working hours, less apparently is not...
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3 Ways To Save Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy DeclineOlfson & Marcus, 2010 via Brown University NewsPeople have been turning away from psychotherapy in favor of medication for years, despite the evidence that therapy works. Here...
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Mouse Skin Cells Transformed Into Viable Eggs, Sperm And Babies
Lab Mouse with PupsA chimeric lab mouse with her pups. These were not the mice used in the study below.Transgenic Core Facility at the National Institute of Mental HealthA similar treatment for...
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This Scientist Helped Quietly Save The World From Soviet Nukes
Kurchatov city, the center of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test siteWikimedia CommonsSiegfried Hecker spent more than a decade securing a nuclear test site the size of New Jersey. When the Soviet Union...
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The Roller Coaster Ups And Downs Of The World's Helium Supply [Infographic]
Helium SupplyKatie PeekMaking the most of a limited resource In a free market, supply follows demand. But in the helium market, regulations set price and production, and with good reason. Helium...
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New Clues To Why Some Autistic Kids Are So Good At Math
Math SkillsFir0002/Flagstaffotos via Wikimedia CommonsDifferences in cognitive organization turns some people with autism into math whizzes. Though children with autism spectrum disorder often have...
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FYI: Did Cavemen Get Athlete's Foot?
T. Rex FootBallistaHard to know, says Will Harcourt- Smith, an expert on early-human fossils at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. "Some infections leave their mark on bones. Athlete's...
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Union Soldiers Fired This Primitive Machine Gun During The Civil War
Gatling Gun Patent From 1865National ArchivesPatented in 1862, the Gatling gun heralded a new age of violence. Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time. Or, well, almost...
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Makerbot's Digitizer 3-D Scanner Is Now Available For Pre-Order
Makerbot DigitizerMakerbotWe first spied the Makerbot Digitizer, a standalone 3-D scanner, back at South by Southwest--it's a rotating platform with a depth sensor, so anything you plop onto the...
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Watch Somebody Pilot A Drone With Google Glass
It was only a matter of time, really This is one of those ideas it's surprising we didn't hear about earlier: a Google Glass-controlled drone! (Come on, guys, Google Glass has been around for, what,...
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Human Urban Activity Makes Animals Develop Bigger Brains
Brainy VoleDaderot via Wikimedia CommonsA study finds urban mammals have significantly larger brains than their rural cousins. Humans aren't just changing the climate, causing earthquakes and you know,...
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The World's Most Precise Clocks: 100 Times More Precise Than Cesium Atomic...
NIST Boulder's Ytterbium Atomic ClockBurrus/NISTAnd they're about 10 billion times more precise than your quartz wristwatch. At the foot of the mountains abutting Boulder, Colorado, in the labs of the...
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3-D Scan And Print Right From Your Browser
Volumental ScanningVolumentalWave a sensor over an object and reproduce it, in the simplest setup we've seen to date. 3-D scanning is a technology with all the right pieces floating around, yet to be...
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Video: Firefighting Helicopter Grabs Water From A Pool
Splish splash, stopping fire in its path This specially configured firefighting 747 supertanker can dump 20,500 gallons of water at once on a fire, before landing to refuel and reload. Helicopters...
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