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Gender Differences Found In Brain Wiring: Insight Or Neurosexism?
Brain Scan Niels HeidenreichThe latest neuroscience study of sex differences to hit the popular press has inspired some familiar headlines. The Independent, for example, proclaims that:The hardwired...
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Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two
Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two Virgin Galactic To reach space, Sir Richard Bransonâs Spaceship Two must eventually pass Mach 3.5. This year, it exceeded Mach 1, making it the first...
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Motorola Moto X
Motorola Moto X Motorola You can ask your smartphones to do a lot of thingsâremind you to pick up the dry cleaning, check for traffic on your commute home. But with the Moto X, you donât have to ask....
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Big Pic: Submerged Navy Submarine Launches Drone
Drone Launched From A Submarine The XFC drone is launched from an underwater vehicle. As it takes off, its wings switchblade out so it can fly. U.S. Navy Getting aircraft into the sky typically...
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Oru Kayak
Oru Kayak Sam Kaplan Foldable kayaks are like jigsaw puzzles: They take a long time to assemble and provide lasting frustration. The Oru is the first folding performance kayak that can be assembled in...
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Can Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles Compete With Electric Cars?
Honda FCEV Concept, 2013 Los Angeles Auto Show Suddenly, hydrogen fuel-cell cars are back in the news. Headlines have proclaimed a coming battle between plug-in electric cars and the new shining hope,...
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Boeing/USAF X-51 WaveRider
Boeing/USAF X-51 WaveRider Boeing On May 1, this 25-foot, 4,000-pound test bed for future missiles survived the longest air-breathing hypersonic flight: three minutes at Mach 5. Itâs the first true...
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A Brief History Of Octopi Taking Over The World
Don't shoot! I'll let go! Sometimes the octopus doesn't even straddle a map. Here it's just a very subtle villain. Udo J. Keppler Octopuses, octopi, octopodes: whatever plural form used, the...
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Couples Under An X-Ray And Other Amazing Images From This Week
X-Ray Couples With a real X-ray machine, artists Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka took these intimate, dark, and kind of hilarious images of couples. Ayako Kanda and Hayashi Mayuka via io9Â Â Â Â
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The Week In Numbers: The Rise Of Bed Bugs, A Portable X-Ray Machine, And More
Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two 2,500 mph: the speed attained this year by the six-passenger Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two, the first commercial spacecraft to exceed...
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Vote For DigitalGlobe's Best Satellite Photo Of The Year
Fires In Dunalley, Australia DigitalGlobe DigitalGlobe is an imaging company that uses a constellation of five satellites to beam down incredible pictures of Earth. In the past year, the company...
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10 Smart Science Gifts For Kids
GoldieBlox The great thing about children is that they are allhugenerds. The toys on this list will help kids teach themselves about electronics, biology, engineering, geometry, and more.Need more...
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Tronical Tune
Tronical Tune Sam Kaplan Automatic guitar tuners are expensive, hard to install, and overly complex. Or at least they used to be. The Tronical Tune uses an off-the-shelf microprocessor, custom...
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Game Controller Lets You Feel The Weight Of Virtual Objects
Reactive Grip Tactical Haptics Controller feedback hasn't changed that much since the days of the Nintendo 64: something happens to your on-screen virtual avatar, and the controller rumbles in your...
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The NSA Has Been Infiltrating Online Games
World of Warcraft Blizzard Entertainment (via) The National Security Agency, still under the microscope because of leaks from former employee Edward Snowden, has been straddling the line between...
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Ecovative Mushroom Insulation
Ecovative Mushroom Insulation Sam Kaplan Ecovative makes its Mushroom Insulation by fusing fungal mycelium with corn stalks. The resultant material has the upsides of foam board insulationâan R-value...
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Curiosity Finds A Former Lake On Mars
Yellowknife Bay, Where Curiosity Took Samples From slides shown during the American Geophysical Unionâs fall meeting, December 9, 2013 Once upon a time, in the lowest part of Gale Crater on Mars,...
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Fairphone
Fairphone Fairphone Amsterdam-based Fairphone engineered its device to have a clean start and a long afterlife. The phone is assembled using conflict-free metals and fair labor practices, and it ships...
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Make An LED Holiday Light Out Of Pennies
Skip the tangled strings of holiday lights this year and go wireless using a few copper-coated cents. U.S. pennies minted since 1982 conceal a zinc core. If exposed to acid, the zinc dissolves and...
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Maryland High School Now Offers Drones 101
Inside South River High School's Drone Class Teacher Rob Tompkins and his students work on a DJI Flame Wheel quadcopter. WBAL TV In the classroom are two teachers, 12 students and four flying robots....
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