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A Crazy Size Comparison Of Sci-Fi's Greatest Ships [Infographic]
Being a small child, I often think to myself: What if the Star Wars spaceships got into a fight with the ships from Star Troopers? Thanks to this infographic from DeviantART user Dirk Loechel, I...
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Big Pic: 3-D Printed Space Gloves Rule The World
Spacewalk Replica ESA-Anneke Le Floc'h When you're a famous astronaut, anything you touch basically turns to space gold. And then people make replicas of the things that you've touched, because those,...
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Scientists Make Photons Act Like Real-Life Light Saber
President Obama Wields A Light Saber Photons are particles without mass; until now, our understanding has been that they do not interact with each other at all. That's why, when you shine two lights...
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@PopSci FWIW, I approve. Conversation about science is better when we don't have to keep stopping to defend scientific inquiry.— Erica Friedman (@Yuricon) September 24, 2013My takeaway, @mathewi, re:...
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Curiosity Finds Water And Poison In Martian Soil
'Rocknest' in the Gale Crater, Mars Photo taken by the Curiosity rover on its 52nd Martian day, or sol, corresponding with September 28, 2012, on Earth. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS You watched it land,...
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Trained Police Rats Sniff Out Crime In The Netherlands
Smell A Rat? Oskila via Wikimedia CommonsIn Rotterdam, the second-largest city in the Netherlands, rats are more than just scurrying subway pests. They're trained crime fighters.The Dutch police have...
View ArticleThis Magic Projection Box Will Melt Your Brain
San Francisco design studio Bot & Dolly created this demonstration of what is almost certainly sorcery a projection mapping system. The project's simply called "Box," and without ruining too...
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An Open-Source Hive To Save The Bees
You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies, continuing to die at unprecedented rates, and the reason why is still a bit of a mystery. So to give them a leg up, the group Open Tech...
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The 13 Weirdest-Named Academic Journals
Rangifer The journal of the Nordic Council for Reindeer Husbandry Research. Septentrio Academic PublishingScientists are constantly out proving how the world works, often answering questions most...
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How To Win A Trampoline War, According To Science
Before Alison Sheets was an assistant professor at Ohio State University, she was a competitive gymnast who knew her way around a trampoline. Over dinner one day, she began explaining the dynamics of...
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A Self-Assembling Molecular Train Set
Choo Choo U.S. National System of Public Lands When the tiny bits of stuff inside your body's cells need to get somewhere, they move on tracks, like the cars of a train. Protein, genetic material and...
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Glenfiddich® At Popular Science we are all about innovation. While it’s possible to find out about the newest gadgets and latest models from a host of wonderful sites that are everywhere online, we...
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How Evolution Determines The Flavor Of Beer and Whiskey
Fermenting Susan DwyerBack in August of 2011, unconventional chef David Chang stood up in front of a gathering of chefs and other food people in Copenhagen to give a talk about food and microbiology....
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Interactive Infographic: What Would A Hyperloop Nation Look Like?
Explore a hypothetical North American Hyperloop network, where total travel time between cities by Hyperloop is represented by color. Click on a city to re-center the map at a different origin. Mouse...
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Bird Flu Strain Jumps From Animals To People For The First Time
Researching H7N9 CDC A common strain of bird flu that had previously only infected poultry has reached what's reported to be its first human patient, according to a study released in the Lancet...
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Fashion Camera Brings Primate Brains To The Internet
A primate brain, ready for its close-up. StyleShoots Macaque anatomist Roxana Kooijmans wants you to know about her brains. Kooijmans is a coordinator at the Primate Brain Bank, a non-profit...
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Cognitive Computing For All: IBM Releases a Legion of Watsons
IBM Watson Watson is dead. IBM’s Jeopardy-winning computer, whose calculations resided on a custom-built bank of servers roughly the size of a master bedroom, is no more.But Watson has descendants....
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Against Medical Recommendations, FDA Approves Potent New Painkiller
Hydrocodone DEA The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers prescription painkiller overdoses a public health epidemic, calling prescription drug abuse the "fastest growing drug problem...
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The World's Oldest Animal Is Even Older Than We Thought
Ming Bangor University Here you see Ming, a mollusk of the species Arctica islandica. In 2006, researchers discovered the bivalve in Iceland, and examined its interior growth rings--patterns on the...
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