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Watch Live: First-Ever Commercial Cygnus Cargo Spacecraft Launches To The ISS
Launch is scheduled for 10:58 am ET. Update: Successful launch! Live streaming video by UstreamToday the private spaceflight company Orbital Sciences is hoping to launch its Antares rocket carrying the...
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My Friend Gave Me A Bitcoin. Now What?
BitcoinMichelle MrukUse this crypto-currency to fund ambitious projects So you've got yourself a bitcoin. Congratulations! Its value was hovering around $100 at press time. But what can you do with...
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Look At This Totally Insane First-Person Eagle Video
Look at it! Watch it! Let the glory and the majesty of it flow through your soul. YouTube user Srachi posted this short video of an eagle with a camera on its back. It was filmed in Chamonix, France...
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iPhone Owners: Your Guide To iOS 7
Apple Control CenterAppleWhat is iOS 7? How do I upgrade? When is the update coming? Can anything go wrong? The answers to these and more questions. Unless you're a gadget reviewer, you can't get your...
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Watch A Dinosaur Fly In A Wind Tunnel
Microraptor Emily WilloughbyA five-winged dinosaur model in a wind tunnel helps scientists understand the origins of flight. The 3-foot-long Microraptor, one of the smallest dinosaurs in the fossil...
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Somebody Modded A Piano To Play The Game 'Doom' [Video]
Do you hear that, friends? It is the sweet, atonal sound of classic gaming. For better or worse, the 1993 demon-blasting video game Doom is one of the most influential games ever. Which means we get...
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Is Red Bull Downplaying Research On The Harms Of Mixing Alcohol And Energy...
Red BullEmÃr Balduin Hallef Omar Ali al-Adid bin Abú Sharee al-Kerakvia Wikimedia CommonsA piece in a prominent medical journal accuses the energy drink industry of using its financial power to sway...
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Neuroscience May Help Us Understand Financial Bubbles
New research published in the journal Neuron suggests that market bubbles are in fact driven by a biological impulse to try to predict how others behave. Five years on from Lehman Brothers' collapse...
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How To Make A Beach Clean Itself
Sand TrapKevin HandRedirecting runoff underground could make for a much more pleasant day at the beach In 2011, water pollution closed or drove visitors away from U.S. shores on more than 15,000 beach...
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The Big Bang May Not Have Spawned The Universe After All
A Black HoleWikimedia CommonsOur universe might actually be the result of the collapse of a four-dimensional star. According to a new paper posted on Arxiv, the Big Bang may not have been what we think...
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Got A Wide Face? You're Making Everything Terrible
Wide FaceCourtesy UC RiversideA new study says people act more selfishly when dealing with wide-faced men. Man, it's a tough time to be a big-faced dude. Last year, two management professors at the...
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How Videogames Are About To Start Playing You
Game ChangerPaul LachineNew sensor technology will let machines monitor players, and adjust games based on their emotions. When Microsoft Iintorduced the Kinect sensor in 2010, the company said the...
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How To Use Science To Get Better Bar Service
How To Get ServedHoakylan via Wikimedia CommonsA study on how body language affects who bartenders serve will help teach a robotic barkeep to recognize new customers. There's no better way to combine a...
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Mars Is Probably Not Home To Life, According To Sad New Study
Mount SharpNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSA new analysis from the rover Curiosity found just one-sixth as much methane as previous studies. Methane gas can be a sign of microbial life, so this is disappointing...
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3 Students Plan To Push Their Friend Off A Cliff In A Wright-Style Glider...
Red Bull Flugtag Wright GliderTemple Aeronautics DesignWhat could possibly go wrong? This Saturday at a harbor near Washington, D.C., a team of student engineers is going to shove a homemade flying...
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Darwin Wasn't A Complete Chauvinist After All
Charles DarwinWikimedia CommonsThe man who once called having a wife "better than a dog, anyhow" expressed far more egalitarian views in his private letters. The annals of scientific history are filled...
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A $1,000 Ikea House For Refugees
Ikea Flatpack Refugee HouseIkea Foundation and Graphic NewsMundane business know-how combats gut-wrenching human tragedy. Making sure that there's enough shelter available for populations displaced by...
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Remembering Hiroshi Yamauchi, The Man Who Made Nintendo
Hiroshi YamauchiSeattle Mariners Photo (via)The long-serving Nintendo president died today at 85. Hiroshi Yamauchi was the president of Nintendo from 1949 to 2002, and might be the person most...
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Why Tesla Could Be The Company To Crack The Self-Driving Car
2013 Tesla Model SPictured: a non-autonomous all-electric supercar. Put it in the garbage, we want robocars. Car companies like Nissan and Lexus are doing it. Tech companies like Google are doing it....
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Pretty Much The Entire Human Race Bought The New Grand Theft Auto
GTA VRockstarIn first day sales, it's bigger than any game, movie, or album ever released. (Ha ha, what? Books? Get out of here, nerd.) Murder and car-jacking simulator Acclaimed video game Grand Theft...
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