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Millennials Love Living With Their Parents [Infographic]
If by "love" you mean "can't afford to leave." This just in: Those darn millennials won't move out of their parents' basements. Data released by the Pew Research Center this month shows young adults...
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The World's Fastest Dog Vs. The World's Fastest Cat [Video]
Greyhound Running, Mid-StrideWikimedia CommonsRun run run run run run run run run The cheetah, the world's fastest land animal, can race up to 75 mph for short bursts. The greyhound is the fastest...
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An Adorable Animation Of The Sun Destroying Earth
Jupiter With Volcanic Moon IoNASAPlus some other fun facts about the solar system! Hello, tiny human! If you needed a quick reminder of how small you are in the universe, just check out this video,...
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Squeeze The Bacteria Out Of Water WIth A New Gel
Clean WaterJorge Barrios via Wikimedia CommonsIn an emergency, clean drinking water can be tough to find. Floods, earthquakes and hurricanes can make our usual sources of water potentially unsafe.After...
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Forget Tweeting, Meet The Birds Who Blog
A project launched today by researchers in Aberdeen and the RSPB will see a group of Scottish birds writing their own blogs.Readers will be able to track the daily lives of red kites as they travel...
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How To Grow Your Own Photo
Edward L. YoumansA bacterial portrait of Edward L. Youmans, founder of Popular Science, circa 1886courtesy Natalie Kuldell/Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUse microbes to make black-and-agar still...
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Could A Spacecraft Fly Straight Through Jupiter?
Jupiter, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft NASA/JPL/Space Science InstituteDespite its gusty reputation as a "gas giant," Jupiter's blood-red clouds hide a dense, rocky core that's perhaps 20 times...
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Steve Ballmer Announces He Will Retire As CEO, Microsoft Stock Immediately...
Microsoft CEO Steve BallmerWikimedia CommonsIn a statement posted on Microsoft's website this morning, Steve Ballmer, CEO since 2000, announced that he will retire within the next 12 months. Ballmer...
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Packing For The Apocalypse And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Packing For The ApocalypseTo keep things light-hearted, here is more apocalypse fare: an idea for a plant-backpack from designer Chiu Chih. Don't think this is really supposed to work; it's just...
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Big Pic: The Sun Rises In Antarctica After 3 Months Of Darkness
A Sun Rises Over ConcordiaESA-V. KaimakamisAt Concordia Research Station, 350 miles from Lake Vostok and just over a thousand miles from the geographic South Pole, the temperature reaches -112°F and...
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Satellite Photos Reveal Construction At Iran's Island Drone Base
Satellite Image of Iranian Drone BaseIHS / Jane's Defence WeeklyWhat is Iran up to in the Strait of Hormuz? On the island of Qeshm in the Persian Gulf, on the northern-most end of the narrow Strait of...
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Drinking Arsenic-Laced Water Is Like Smoking For Decades, Study Finds
Drink ThisGreenversations, an official blog of the U.S. EPAGroundwater in many countries, including the U.S., has naturally high levels of arsenic. Drinking water contaminated with unsafe levels of...
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How NASA Would Wrangle An Asteroid [Video]
The agency released an Armageddon-style video to explain New telescope technology is helping scientists better detect asteroids, but what happens after we find them? One of NASA's goals has been to...
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Watch The 2013 World Yo-Yo Champion's Greatest Tricks
Waaay beyond "walking the dog" Looking for something new to learn in the next year? Why not consider becoming a master yo-yo-er? Kottke found and posted this video from this year's winner of the World...
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Foam Party Causes Corneal Abrasion And Vision Problems
Foam PartyHalf-stache not necessary.Wikimedia CommonsKeep the foam in the tub, kids. Foam parties, at which you dance in a club amid several feet of soapy bubbles, apparently still exist, which, fine,...
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Here's What Happens When You Put Flaming-Hot Nickel On Gummy Bears
Your burning question, answered Might want to set aside an hour or so to watch this video several times. The mad geniuses at YouTube channel carsandwater, who've captured some pretty amazing footage of...
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The Sharpest Photos Of Space Ever
Magellan Telescope with MagAO's Adaptive Secondary MirrorYuri Beletsky, Las Campanas ObservatoryWith a new camera system, astronomers are seeing the universe in super high-resolution. A team of...
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Why Do We Pathologize Gender Nonconformity?
Army Pfc. Manning, 2012United States ArmyWhat Chelsea Manning's gender dysphoria reveals about the limits of psychiatric diagnoses Chelsea Manning, the former intelligence analyst recently sentenced to...
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Watch A Giant Hovercraft Land On A Crowded Russian Beach
Just out enjoying your day at the beach when, boom, giant military hovercraft. The worst. This 5.5-ton Russian military hovercraft landed on the beach of the Baltic Sea port city Kaliningrad, between...
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The Week In Numbers: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue, The Sharpest Space...
The NovoGen MMX BioprinterPhotograph by Timothy Hogan250 microns: the thickness of the microtissues printed out by the first commercial 3-D bioprinter, which will soon help biochemists test new...
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