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7 Cool Gifts For Music Nerds
Urbanears Re:Plattan Claire Benoist As scientists toil away to discover what draws humans to music, how it stimulates our brains, and why it’s so integral to our history, we’ve compiled a list of the...
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Anki Drive
Anki Drive Sam Kaplan The Anki R/C cars are the first toy racers that interact as they would in a videogame. An iPhone app constantly tracks each car’s location and calculates its most likely path...
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Simulated Gophers Explain Mysterious Mima Mounds
Mima Mounds South of Olympia, Washington Arthur M. Ritchie, Washington State Department of Natural Resources It’s one of those things that teachers in Washington state use to hook kids on science,...
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Killing Fungus With Plastic Bottles
The Fungus Candida albicansGrahamColm on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0File this under weird things that work. Scientists have created a plastic-like material that, once in the body, acts as a drug...
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Home Test Kit Helps You Find Antibiotics In Leaves
ILIAD Project Petri Dish and Instructions Screenshot from “The ILIAD Project Indiegogo Video” on YouTube Penicillin comes from bread mold, and many antibiotics in use today come from soil bacteria...
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A Toy Box That's Opened By A Kid's Fingerprint
Toy Box Courtesy Grant Gibson Four-year-old Ewan Gibson loves toy cars. His dad, Grant, a Scottish Web developer, prefers electronics. Hoping to find common ground—and inspired by Apple’s new...
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Why Do Pipes Burst?
One lonely burst pipe. Cynthia Closkey, via Flickr When the weather gets cold, localnewsoutlets start warning listeners about pipes bursting. But what exactly happens when water splits metal? Seattle...
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Cloned Horse Wins Argentine Polo Open
A Horse and Its Clone Sally Harrison/ViaGen Polo star Adolfo Cambiaso helped his team win the Argentine National Open this weekend, scoring nine goals in the 16-11 match. Two of those he scored atop a...
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Martin Aircraft Company P12 Jetpack
Martin Aircraft Company P12 Jetpack Martin Aircraft Company In truth, ducted fans, not jets, propel Martin Aircraft’s creation, but who cares? It’s the jetpack dream made real. With computer-assisted...
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7 Gifts For The Gamer In Your Life
Game Boy Flask EtsyYou, statistically, have a gamer in your life. If you do, you, overwhelmingly likely, will have to buy some Christmas presents for him or her this year. Maybe, though, you don't...
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Kratos Defense And Security Solutions Laser Weapon System
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions Laser Weapon System U.S. Navy It’s only a matter of time before another country deploys drones against us. Armed with a laser range finder, the Kratos system...
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NASA Unveils Valkyrie, Its Humanoid Rescue Robot [Video]
The Boston Dynamics-built ATLAS is the rescue robot prototype that gets all the attention, but now NASA is getting in on the action, unveiling Valkyrie, a 6-foot 2-inch, 275-pound rescue robot. The...
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How Will Space Commuters Navigate A Thicket Of Air Traffic?
FACET An image of airplane traffic from the simulation tool FACET. Juan Alonso "When space traffic becomes routine, there's going to be significant conflict between commercial air traffic and space...
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One-Way, Manned Mission To Mars Just Got Closer To Reality
Mars One 2018 Lander Concept Art Bryan Versteeg and Mars One Yesterday, Netherlands-based private spaceflight project Mars One announced the companies it hopes will build the technology necessary for...
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FDA Aims To Reduce Use Of Antibiotics For Fattening Farm Animals
Pasture-Raised Pigs in Rockville, Virginia Photo by Lance Cheung, U.S. Department of Agriculture The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking veterinary drug companies to voluntarily agree to make...
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Have you ever tasted something so good and wondered: How is this so delicious?! How would I go about making this myself? Well then, lovers of single malt Scotch whisky, you’re in luck. Glenfiddich and...
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Bounce Imaging Explorer
Bounce Imaging Explorer Bounce Imaging First responders can toss the baseball-size Explorer into a building or enclosed space for a quick snapshot of any hazards. Sporting six cameras with wide-angle...
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A 3-D Printed, Hand-Cranked Computer
3-D Printed Computer Dan Bracaglia When the hackerspace NYC Resistor hosted a “digital archaeology” interactive show last spring, electrical engineer Chris Fenton built a throwback computer using...
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A Pen That 3-D Prints Bone Right Onto Patients
The BioPen University of Wollongong One of the greatest promises of 3-D printing is that we'll one day be able to print organs on-demand. Need a new liver? There it is, at the push of a...
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ZF & Levant Power Genshock
ZF & Levant Power Genshock ZF & Levant Developed by MIT students, Genshock is the first active suspension system that generates energy from bumps in the road. Each shock absorber houses a...
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