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Bic Pic: Saturn's Rings In Infrared
Saturn Close-UpNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteEvery pixel in the NASA image represents 37 miles. Why, hello there, Saturn. Those rings are looking pretty sharp this morning.NASA's Cassini...
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The 2013 Ig Nobel Prizes: Drunk People Feel Sexy, And More Of The Year's...
Proud Ig Nobel WinnersIg Nobel PrizesThe Ig Nobel Prizes are in! Here are the winners of the strangest science awards of the year. Last night were the Ig Nobel Prizes, the most important of Nobel Prize...
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Alarming Satellite GIFs Show Russia's Extreme Flooding
The Russia-China border is practically a lake now. LANCE/EOSDIS MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFCSince mid-August, floods have plagued the Amur River region, the dividing line between eastern...
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How Common Are Sadists?
Marquis de SadeWikimedia CommonsPeople who enjoy being cruel are scarily prevalent, new research says. There may be more sadists lurking in our midst than we'd like to think, according to a new study...
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Where Do Dreams Come From?
Jacob's DreamWikimedia CommonsDreamland might not require so much imagination after all. When we close our eyes and drift off to sleep, something in our mind spins us fanciful tales of teeth falling...
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A Beer To Honor A Giant Electromagnet
By Land And SeaFermilabFermilab's Muon g-2 experiment required a 50-foot wide electromagnet. Which in turn required a celebratory brew. When Chicago's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory celebrated...
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Find A Blue Chicken Egg? Congrats, Your Chicken Has A Virus
Colored Chicken EggsWikimedia CommonsNot necessarily harmful! But just so you know. Here in the U.S., our eggs mostly come in two colors: white and brown. But there are two breeds, one in Chile and one...
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Hoodies Carved From Marble And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Marble ClothingThis comfy-looking sweatshirt is actually carved from marble by artist Alex Seton.Alex Seton via PSFKPlus photographs of fad diets, Russian "skywalkers," and more
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Vintage Pics: Early 20th-Century Artists Imagine 'Earthrise' From Mars
"Earthrise" PhotoThe evening they entered lunar orbit on December 24, 1968, NASA's Apollo 8 team broadcast images of the Earth as they saw it.NASANearly 100 years before the Apollo program, people...
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Drone Club For Kids With Autism Is Really, Really Awesome
These videos will make you smile. To help kids on the autism spectrum see the world in brand-new ways, a team of parents has equipped them with technical lessons, drones, and video cameras. "Taking...
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World's First 'Invisible' Skyscraper Is Not Made Of Metamaterials, Sadly
Tower InfinityGDS ArchitectsStill really weird and cool, though We've long been interested in the progression of invisibility, which, for us, usually relies on crazy foundations like metamaterials. So...
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NASA Scientists Answer Your Burning Questions About Voyager 1
Voyager 1One of the two identical Voyager probes, as photographed by NASA.NASAVoyager 1 has officially entered interstellar space. How long will the spacecraft have power? When might it reach another...
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The Week In Numbers: A One-Way Trip To Mars, The Next Space Shuttle, And More
SkylonReaction Engines' Skylon spacecraft would make short hauls into orbit, come back, and be ready to do it again two days later.Nick Kaloterakis$3.6 billion: the funding a team of engineers needs to...
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In Japan, Eight People With Two Laptops Launch A Telescope Into Orbit
JAXA's Epsilon Rocket, August 2013This photo of the Epsilon rocket was taken before an aborted launch in August. The mission later blasted off successfully on September 14.nvslive on Flickr, CC BY-NC...
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Beautiful And Bizarre Translucent Snail Discovered In Croatia
Cool New SnailJ. BedekHi, new friend. You are pretty. Deep in one of the deepest caves in the world, a cave that reaches more than 4,500 feet below ground, scientists made a startling discovery: a new...
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The Coolest Things We Saw Exploring The Galápagos Islands In Google Street View
Lovely sea lions off the coast of Champion IslandGoogle Street ViewPretend you're Charles Darwin and check out the blue-footed boobies, giant tortoises, sea lions and more. Click here to enter the...
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How Nicolas Fontaine Is Saving The Internet From Itself
Nicolas FontaineJoel KimmelFontaine, an optical engineer at Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, has devised a clever way to avoid a data bottleneck. Each year, Popular Science seeks out the brightest young...
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How Imagination Works
Mental ImagesCourtesy Alex SchlegelA small new study images the brain's "mental workspace." Look at these shapes for a few seconds. Then close your eyes, and try to imagine how they look. Try to take...
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A Galactic Spiral Of Early Nintendo Games [Infographic]
The Nebula of NES GamesPop Chart LabMore than 700 games from Nintendo's Golden Age, in one very nice-looking image. From 1984 to 1993, during the heyday of the Nintendo Entertainment System, more than...
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Big Pic: The Sun Like You've Never Seen It Before
Colorized Coronal Mass Ejections from the SunCourtesy of SOHO consortium. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between ESA and NASAScientists colorized this image to show the intensity of...
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