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Why Doesn't The iPhone 5S Have NFC?
iPhone 5S Apple Apple calls the newest flagship iPhone, the iPhone 5S, "the most forward-thinking iPhone yet." Sounds great! We love looking forward. But the iPhone, unlike its chief competitors in...
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Microsoft Announces The Next Generation Of Surface Tablet
Microsoft Surface 2's New Screen Dan Nosowitz The Surface, released last winter, was the very first Microsoft-branded laptop, and an odd duck it was, too. A hard, seemingly Blade Runner-inspired chunk...
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7 Fantastic Vintage Anatomy Drawings
Bone illustration By William Cheselden. Hosted online by the National Library of Medicine. View Photo GalleryMedicine in the Middle Ages wasn't the greatest: the leeches, the dirt, that whole...
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Valve Just Announced Its Own Operating System
SteamOS Valve Corporation Valve, the gaming company behind titles like Portal and Half-Life, plus the massively popular online gaming store Steam (sort of the iTunes of downloadable games), has just...
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FYI: Why Do I Poop More When I Have My Period?
Breakaway This graphic shows the differing thicknesses in the uterine lining throughout one normal menstrual cycle. NIH The answer is prostaglandins. These are the chemical signals girls' and women's...
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Inside The Most Ambitious Ground Telescope Ever Built
On the move Transporting the ALMA observatory's 100-ton antenna dishes requires a truck with two 700-hp engines. ESO/S. Stanghellini The first scientist I meet at the Atacama Large...
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5 Awesome Photos Of Wild Animals In Action
Slowest Sprinter Winner, Deep and Meaningful category Vaclav Krpelik/ZSL Can the world ever have too many beautifully composed photographs of wildlife? Only correct answer: never ever. So without...
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Why We're Shutting Off Our Comments
Wellcome Images Comments can be bad for science. That's why, here at PopularScience.com, we're shutting them off.It wasn't a decision we made lightly. As the news arm of a 141-year-old science and...
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10 Of The Most Amazing Textiles Of The Future
BioSuit Dava Newman View Photo GalleryTextile design is one of those fields that seems like it never changes all that much. Wallpaper is wallpaper. A rug is a rug. Right?Wrong. A new crop of...
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FYI: Do Insects Have Personalities?
Hi, shy guy Daniel Cooper/Getty Images For the entomophiles who keep insects as pets, this question will seem a little silly. Some bugs appear aggressive, and others, shy; some venture into the open,...
View ArticleHow To Become Indiana Jones With Online Courses [Infographic]
The first massive open online course, or MOOC, launched in September 2008 at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg. Via the Web, anyone could attend the class on learning theory, and 2,300 people...
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Big Pic: Blue Ripples In Martian Sand Dunes
Mars Dunes NASA/JPL/University of Arizona The red planet's looking a little blue in the face. This image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter at the end of August shows the ripples of...
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Famous Twitter Spambot Horse_ebooks Is Actually A BuzzFeeᴅ Employee
Horse Ebooks On Twitter, there is an account by the name of @Horse_ebooks. It is perhaps the most famous nonsense account on the entire social network, spewing out non-sequiturs and bits of stuttering...
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The Mind-Bending Science Of James Turrell's Art
James Turrell, Aten Reign, 2013 Daylight and LED light, dimensions variable. © James Turrell Installation view: James Turrell, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, June 21–September 25, 2013 David...
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Chemistry's Biggest Loser: Official Atomic Weights Change For 19 Elements
The Periodic Table of the Elements, by electronic structure Alison Haigh Yttrium, are you looking a bit chubbier these days? Improved measurements of different elements and their isotopes have...
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Central Park Monkeys Caught Whispering About Hated Supervisor
Cotton-Top Tamarin via The tamarins of New York City's Central Park Zoo have been caught telling secrets. In the first recorded evidence of whisper-like behavior in non-human primates, the tiny...
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Google Science Fair Winners Are Some Amazing Kids
Science Fair Winners Every year, Google holds one of the most impressive science fairs in the world (along with Intel's). This year, teenagers from 120 countries submitted amazing projects--projects...
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Plastic Bags Transformed Into Eco-Friendly Carbon Nanotubes
Common Beach Litter Zev Yaroslavsky, Los Angeles County Here's a real Cinderella transformation story. A team of chemists has found a way to turn non-biodegradable plastic bags into a carbon nanotube...
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FYI: Do Animals Have Orgasms?
Monkey Business Noneotuho via Wikimedia CommonsAh, the age-old question. When animals are going at it like, uh, animals, how does it end? Is there an animal version of the Big O?It's a bit hard to...
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FYI: Can Wireless Electricity Kill People?
Shock and Awe Nikola Tesla in his Niagara Falls lab with his coils, which could discharge millions of volts and send electricity through the air Bettmann/Corbis Probably not. Even when it's nipping at...
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