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What It Takes To 3-D Print A Building
Echoviren Pavilion At NightType A MachinesOnly seven machines and two months! And the structure still isn't big enough for people. Womp womp. We've seen some neat plans for 3-D printed architecture....
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The Official Popular Science Guide To All The Gadgets You'll Need In College
This College Student Loves His MacBookAppleWhat's the best laptop? How can you avoid losing your papers to Microsoft Word's temper tantrums? The answers, and more, within. So, you're heading off to...
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Watch This Robotic Sofa Balance On One Leg
And watch it collapse into pieces when it inevitably falls over Artist Jacob Tonski, inspired by how the sofa is a center of human interactions, rigged a 170-year-old Victorian sofa to stand up on a...
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Big Pic: See The Yosemite Wildfire From Space
Satellite Image of Rim Fire taken August 25, 2013Terra/MODISThe satellite photo below was taken yesterday. The fire now threatens a dam important to the city of San Francisco's electricity supply....
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FYI: What's The Point Of Sex?
It Would Be So Much Easier to Clone Ourselves, Right?Bdelloid Rotifers, all-female animals that live in ponds, have reproduced without sex for millions of years. Diego Fontaneto via WikipediaLots of...
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Big Pic: Terrorism In Iraq, Visible From Space
Pipeline Bombing in Northern IraqGoogle Earth via SkyTruthEvidence of ongoing violence is captured in satellite imagery It might not make headlines any more, but violence in Iraq rages on, as evidenced...
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This DIY Team Is Trying To Build 1,000-MPG Autonomous Vehicles
Meet ElcanoFor now, project Elcano is a self-driving electric tricycle. But its makers have far more ambitious plans using the power of crowdfunding.Jigsaw Renaissance/RocketHubMeet project Elcano. For...
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This 3-D Printed Skateboard Is The Geekiest Way To Shred
3-D Printed SkateboardSam AbbottExtra nerd cred: the bottom looks like the moon For too long, skateboarding has been the domain of cool kids. This geeky 3-D printed skateboard brings the pastime to...
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I Met The World's Smartest Dog
Chaser With FluffyDan NosowitzChaser isn't just learning objects by name: she's beginning to understand the basic structure of human language. "Chaser, this is Dan. Chaser! This is Dan," said Deb...
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Is Google Shutting Out Indie Development On The Chromecast?
Sling To ChromecastGoogleThe Chromecast can't become a great gadget without developers. And yet one of the biggest indie developers for Chromecast is convinced he's being intentionally shut out. When...
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Pitch Drop Experiment Scientist Dies Without Ever Seeing A Drop Fall
John Mainstone and the Pitch Drop Experiment, Pictured in 1990John Mainstone and The University of Queensland, photo accessed via Wikimedia CommonsNobody has ever witnessed a drop fall from this...
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A Full-Scale Wood Cylon Because Why Not
Wood CylonDmitry BalandinThe Battlestar Galactica 'bot is 6-foot-4 inches of lazy Sunday activities Ukrainian crane operator Dmitry Balandin created this Cylon (a robot from the sci-fi TV series...
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How Seahorses Survive With Squishable Armor
Squishable ArmorCourtesy University of California, San DiegoAnd how researchers want to make a robotic arm out of the technique Crabs, birds, and manta rays regularly try to crush sea horses for...
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John Kerry: The Assad Regime Used Chemical Weapons
Secretary of State John KerryWikimedia CommonsSpeaking from the podium at the State Department briefing room today, Secretary of State John Kerry lambasted the government of Syrian President Bashar...
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Latest U.S. Measles Outbreak Traced To Vaccine-Skeptical Megachurch
Not Too Scared to WatchA young girl gets a vaccine in the thighJames Gathany, CDCThe church ran an immunization drive afterward, but still put out some dubious claims. The latest outbreak of measles in...
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Pew Internet Survey: It's Good To Be White, Male, Young, Rich, And Educated
Happy Young White Rich Male With Internet AccessWikimedia CommonsIf you want broadband internet access, that is. The latest Pew internet survey, which is conducted annually (though not always with the...
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Piloting A Drone Is Hell
Drone PilotsU.S. Air Force Photo/Senior Airman Nadine Y. BarclayDrone pilots are remote but not detached. The cover story for the Atlantic's September issue reveals a surprising truth: drone warfare is...
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25 People Who Will Be 'The Next Steve Jobs'
Young SteveEveryone from Jeff Bezos to Marissa Meyer to "a bikini video director" has been anointed the next Steve Jobs. Here's every such mention we could find. Even before his death nearly two years...
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3 Beautiful Instruments Made From Stuff Nobody Wanted
Hybrid OrchestraCourtesy Diego StoccoThey don't sound bad, either HYBRID ORCHESTRADiego Stocco crafted his first Frankeninstrument when he was 16. Today the 37-year-old Italian musician enlists more...
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FYI: Could My Cat Be Allergic To Me?
Skittles Has The Sniffles, But Why?Feline allergies are caused by the same triggers as human allergies. Pets can even be allergic to people or, more likely, the chemicals on our skin.iStockCats get...
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