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Visit A Stunning Salt Mine In Google Street View
Chapel of St. Kinga in the Wieliczka Salt Mine in PolandScreenshot from Google Street ViewThe Polish Wieliczka Salt Mine comes to Google Street View The Wieliczka Salt Mine, with its pure-salt...
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6 Of The Most Important Drug Milestones Of All Time
ColchicineThe seeds of colchicine, commonly known as meadow saffron, were used to treat gout.James Gillray (1799)From arsenic to Prozac to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act Click here to enter...
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More Than 200,000 People Sign Up To Die On Mars
Mars colonyMars OneOnly a few dozen will be chosen for the 2023 mission to colonize the red planet. Five months after the Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced it would begin...
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A Guide To Fall Foliage For The Whole U.S. [Infographic]
Fall ColorsRoadtrippersThe peak days for leaf-watching, in one handy map Labor Day has passed, and we're already mourning summer, but at least there's the fall foliage to look forward to. If you're...
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What To Expect At Apple's iPhone Event Tomorrow
New phones! We love phones. Phones phones phones. Apple is set to introduce, we're pretty sure, the next-generation iPhone tomorrow. Leaks involving Apple devices have increased both in volume and...
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Why Mars Colonists Will Definitely Go Crazy
Mars colony with solar panelsMars OneA space colony could be a breeding ground for mental illness. Everyone and their mother wants to send people to Mars these days. Dutch spaceflight nonprofits,...
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Big Pic: Look At NASA's LADEE Spacecraft Soaring Over NYC
Ladee Seen Over NYCBen Cooper/LaunchPhotography.comAn amazing timelapse from the top of Rockefeller Center NASA's LADEE spacecraft launched from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Friday night, en...
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Chemical Analysis Finds A Whiskey's Unique Fingerprint
White Oak Barrels for Aging BourbonBbadgett on Wikimedia CommonsHow to tell different whiskeys apart scientifically Just as Scottish and Irish accents are clearly different from American English ones,...
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Your Guide To Glowing Creatures [Infographic]
BioluminescenceKanny YeungA map of the color, size, and function of bioluminescent things "Bioluminescent" is the preferred adjective for animals and fungi and bacteria (and bacteria-powered lamps!)...
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From MIT, A Tool For Mapping Crucial City Supply Chains
Screenshot KM2 websiteA lot of small stores in a tight area with streets at weird angles. Yup, this is Boston.MIT Megacity Logistics LabRoads that make sense for pedestrians and horses work less well...
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Sony Unveils A PlayStation-Powered Streaming TV Gadget
PS Vita TVSonyThe PS Vita TV is a tiny media player for playing games and using apps through your TV Earlier today, Sony announced a new gadget: the PS Vita TV, a cheap set-top box that'll let users...
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Feast Your Eyes On That Detroit Robocop Statue Thing [Video]
This foam mold will form the basis for a 10-foot brass statue Remember last year when the internet worked itself into a tizzy over a Kickstarter that raised $50,000 for a Robocop statue to be placed in...
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The Crazy Tech Behind The 2013 America's Cup
Oracle Team USA Guilain Grenier8 awesome facts about the world's fastest sailing yachts Click here to enter the galleryNow underway in the San Francisco Bay is the America's Cup Finals, the last stage...
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How Healthcare Reform Could Save Babies' Lives
BabiesNebraska Early Development NetworkResearchers hope that the Affordable Care Act will reduce the disparity between black and white American babies' mortality rates. Upcoming health care reforms...
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The Future Of Smartphone Security
Iris for ScanningWikimedia CommonsUnlock your phone with invasive identification methods! Modern smartphones usually offer some kind of security option to let you into the phone. The iPhone has the a...
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The Next Space Shuttle: Hybrid Engines Make Runway-To-Orbit Missions A Reality
SkylonReaction Engines' Skylon spacecraft would make short hauls into orbit, come back, and be ready to do it again two days later.Nick KaloterakisA new type of engine could usher in an era of...
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FYI: Can Anything Move Faster Than Light?
Exceeding the Speed of LightEverett CollectionYes, the universe itself will eventually outpace the speed of light. Just how this will happen is a bit complicated, so let's begin at the very beginning:...
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This Jacket Keeps Warmth In, While Letting Sweat Out
Polartec Alpha JacketBrian KlutchThe Army-approved Polartec Alpha does what down and synthetic materials can't. In 2010, the U.S. Army went to textile manufacturer Polartec with a problem: Troops...
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How NASA Is Developing Fresh Space Salad
Mizuna Lettuce Grown in the International Space StationNASAPlus cameos from former International Space Station crewmembers Zucchini, Broccoli and Sunflower Early in the history of the U.S.' space...
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Liveblogging The iPhone 5S Event From My Busted-Ass iPhone 4S
My Sad, Broken iPhone 4SDan NosowitzI am typing this on an old decrepit iPhone. greetings! I'm live blogging today's iPhone event, at which we're expecting to see at least one new iPhone, from my old...
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