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For The First Time, Model Predicts Peak Flu Week For U.S. Cities
Influenza Ward in France, World War I Public domain image made available by the U.S. National Library of Medicine As the flu spread across the U.S. last winter—earlier and more seriously than...
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Is Your Pee The Right Color? [Infographic]
Several times a day, human bodies release a stream of data about internal health. Unfortunately, the data comes analog, and so isn't immediately accessible as useful information. Now an infographic...
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Michelin Invests In Plant-Based Tires
Michelin Sign Caffeinatrix on Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0The Michelin Man's familiar rolls may get a material makeover in the next decade. French tire company Michelin, supported by a subsidy from...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory The MiniMax
Tribogenics The MiniMax Tribogenics The MiniMAX is the world’s smallest, most portable x-ray machine. Unlike its predecessors, which are a couple of feet wide and quite heavy, MiniMAX weighs five...
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Eagle Steals Wildlife Camera From Crocs, Makes Its Own Viral Video
So this isn't exactly from the point of view of an eagle as much as it's from the point of view of an unlucky mouse. The Gooniyandi Rangers, an Australian Aboriginal group similar to American park...
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Head YOUTEK Graphene Speed Pro
Head YOUTEK Graphene Speed Pro Sam Kaplan By the gram, graphene is the world’s strongest material, but its commercial applications have remained few. Head is the first sporting goods company to...
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Qualcomm Toq
Qualcomm Toq Sam Kaplan Amid a flurry of text and e-mail alerts, designers tend to forget something critical about smartwatches: They still need to show the time. LCDs wash out in the sunlight, and...
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What We Can Learn About A Whale From Its Earwax
A Whale's Tale Mark Jones Roving Tortoise Photos/Getty Images Baleen whales have no need for Q-tips. Water blocks off the ear canal, which has a unique anatomy, so over time wax builds up into what...
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70 Percent Of America's Silent Films Are Gone
Modern Times Wikimedia Commons According to a study conducted by the Library of Congress, 70 percent of American silent films are lost--and a good portion of the remaining ones aren't exactly in great...
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Software Scans Journal Papers, Finds 1 In 4 Have Suspicious Images
Image of One Gel Electrophoresis Experiment, Copied Three Times Original image made by Dr d12 on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup's...
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Putting The Pet Pathogen Paradox Into Perspective
The Pet Pathogen Paradox Are pets our friends or germy enemies? Sources: Wikipedia, Public Health Image Library; Modification: Jason Tetro With the Holiday Season in full swing, many families will...
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Scientists Color Silk By Feeding Silkworms Fabric Dyes
Silkworms Fed a Red Dye Form Pink Silk American Chemical Society, from "Uptake of Azo Dyes into Silk Glands for Production of Colored Silk Cocoons Using a Green Feeding Approach" Brown cows may not...
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Big Pic: This Penguin Selfie Is Charming And Terrifying
Penguin Selfie G Adventures Between this penguin and this eagle, it has been a good week for incidental animal selfies. Travel company G Adventures set up a GoPro camera on a visit to Antarctica, when...
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How Donn Eisele Became "Whatshisname," the Command Module Pilot of Apollo 7
Though it was the first manned mission of the program and the was the first to fly after three colleagues were killed in the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 7 is probably the least well remembered of all Apollo...
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The Next Generation Of USB Connector Will Plug In Either Way
The Old USB ed g2sThe USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which is a group of tech companies that promotes USB, has announced that the next USB plug specification is currently being developed. The new plugs and...
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Samsung Roboray
Roboray Roboray maps its surroundings in real time. Samsung Roboray, developed by the University of Bristol and Samsung, brings engineers a step closer to a robotic SWAT team. The 4.6-foot-tall biped...
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University Of California, San Diego Skysweeper
UCSD Skysweeper UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Skysweeper inches along live power lines scouting for bad splices, frays, tangled branches, and other trouble spots. Developed by engineers at...
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Military Secret Rooms Not As Soundproof As Intended
President Obama Inside A SCIF In A Rio De Janiero Hotel Room President Obama authorizes military action in Libya inside a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility," made inside his hotel room in...
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How To Get Rid Of Animal Testing
Animal Testing Ryan Snook Last summer, the National Institutes of Health announced that it’s phasing out experiments on chimpanzees. All but 50 of its 451 chimps will go to sanctuaries, and it won’t...
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How To Make Your Very Own Legal Drug [Video]
"You can ban drugs, but you can't ban chemistry," Mike Power, author of Drugs 2.0, explains in this talk at the HIT Hot Topics Conference. And he gives a personal, investigative story to prove...
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