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PURETi
PURETi PURETiSmog-killing coating Titanium dioxide, typically used as a pigment in toothpaste and an active ingredient in sunscreen, can also, in ultraviolet light, act as a catalyst to break down air...
View ArticleSamsung Galaxy Nexus Now Available, for $300
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the newest and best Android smartphone we've ever used (read our review here), had a few key facts kept under wraps for a surprisingly long time, most importantly price and...
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Amateur Radio Balloon Flies From California to Algeria
Filling the Balloon The CNSP-11 balloon (for California Near Space Project) is filled with helium before its flight. California Near Space Project A weather balloon built and powered by amateur radio...
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Portable Gamma Camera Displays Radioactivity in Real Time
The Portable Gamma Camera Toshiba via Tech-On Tracking down radiation hotspots is tricky and time consuming because it's hard to see where the problem areas are. Radiation doesn't spread itself evenly...
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Video: A Water-Propelled 'Dolphin Jetpack'
The Flyboard Some people go swimming with dolphins, enthralled with their easy movement through the water and the grace with which they occasionally breach the surface. Others, like Franky Zapata, make...
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Wound-Treating Jelly Regenerates Fresh, Scar-Free Skin
Fixing a Burn Injury PNAS Tissue engineering and tissue healing have a common complication - it's difficult to build new blood vessels throughout the rebuilt skin, but vasculature is required to keep...
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Next-Gen GPS Satellite, Accurate to Within Three Feet and Indoors, is Ready...
GPS Satellite NASA via Wikimedia Were America's NavSat handlers perhaps feeling slighted when it was revealed that the new Apple iPhone 4S would augment its existing GPS coverage with Russia's GLONASS...
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Chimps are Unnecessary for Most Research and Should Be Used Sparingly, Report...
Chimpanzee Chi King via Flickr Chimpanzees are only necessary as research subjects in a very limited number of cases, according to an expert committee convened by the National Research Council and...
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Toshiba Qosmio F755-3D290
Toshiba Qosmio F755 ToshibaOnboard webcam tracks your eyes to show you better 3-D Glasses-free 3-D screens allow viewers to ditch the dorky shades, but with a trade-off: Images are sharp only in a...
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SecuraSeal Sliding Patio Door
SecuraSeal Sliding Patio Door Courtesy SecuraSealJimmy-proof jamb Anyone who has ever had a sliding patio door knows the drill: The lock latches at a single, easily jimmied point, so real security...
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Nano-Engineered Bioconstructs Perform Photosynthesis Faster Than Nature Does
Cyanobacteria Synechococcus PCC 7002, a type of cyanobacteria. Wikimedia Commons Scientists have been trying for a while now to recreate the process of photosynthesis, using sunlight and water to spark...
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DeLorme inReach
DeLorme inReach inReachText from anywhere, via satellite Cell towers and landlines cover only 10 percent of the Earth, but satellite networks reach pretty much everywhere. The inReach communicator...
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Telescope Would Voyage to the Edge of the Solar System to Escape Zodiacal...
ZEBRA (Zodiacal dust, Extragalactic Background and Reionization Apparatus) NASA/JPL/Caltech When space agencies or institutions want to erect a space telescope, they usually look to some remote area...
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DARPA's 'Membrane Optics' Spy Satellite Could Capture Close-Up Video of Earth...
Just when the drone war was starting to get good, DARPA is looking for a way to make stealthy reconnaissance drones--like the not-so-stealthy RQ-170 that ended up in Iranian hands a couple weeks...
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Brain-Enhancing Drug Shown to Greatly Improve Mouse's Memory
Lab Mouse Wikimedia Commons user Rama A new drug that blocks a stress-provoked immune molecule in the brain can dramatically improve memory and learning abilities in mice, a new study says. A future...
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Video: Swarming Teams of Robo-Farmers Will Change the Face of Agriculture
Farming has always been about man, says David Dourhout, but man is now the limiting factor in agriculture. The future of farming is not about getting more efficiency out of each farmer--the human...
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How a Decade of IEDs Has Reshaped Bomb Disposal Tech
A Man, a Robot, and a Mission Courtesy G4The technological toolbox of the military's Explosive Ordnance Disposal units is completely different from ten years ago When American and coalition troops...
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Eco-Friendly Battery Runs on Old Newspapers
Paper-Powered Battery Sony I'll start you guys off with a quote here: In talking about Sony's new battery technology, which uses old cellulose product like newspapers and cardboard to generate...
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Hubble Spots Complex Carbon Compounds, Possibly Organic, on Pluto's Surface
Final Release of Hubble, May 2009 Space Telescope Science Institute The Hubble Space Telescope has sniffed out evidence of complex carbon molecules, the building blocks of life in this corner of the...
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Newly Discovered "Fried" Planets Are Smallest Ever
Fried Planets Two scorched planets, both smaller than Earth, survived being swallowed up by their star when it mushroomed into a red giant. Stéphane Charpinet/Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et...
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