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Army Truck Shoots Drones, Mortars With Lasers
HEL MD Set Up Outside This truck has a freakin' laser on it. U.S. Army photo Named by someone who clearly hated Maryland, the High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator (HEL MD) hit 90 incoming mortar...
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Big Pic: Mammalian Noses, Hot And Cold
Mammal Noses in Infrared Lund University Mammalian Rhinarium Group This collection of cute schnozzes illustrates an interesting fact: Some mammals have warm noses, while others maintain cooler ones....
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Water May Be Flowing On Mars Right Now
The Dark Streaks Nature Geoscience / Alfred McEwen et al. The intrepid Mars rover Curiosity has already confirmed that water once flowed on Mars, but that it's long since dried up. Still, that doesn't...
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NASA Chamber A
NASA Chamber A NASA NASA’s vacuum chamber, upgraded to test the James Webb Space Telescope, can subject anything within its 400,000 cubic feet to the unyielding and deadly conditions of deep space...
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Canary
Canary Canary The Canary home security system is the first that can adapt to one’s daily habits. It integrates data from a wide-angle HD camera, infrared motion sensor, temperature and humidity...
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Heating Water To 600 Degrees Celsius In One Trillionth Of A Second
Illustration of a Cloud of Water Molecules Heated 600 Degrees Celsius Oriol Vendrell/DESY It may only work on tiny amounts of water, but it should be the fastest transfer of energy to water on Earth....
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Strobe Glasses Give Hockey Players A Performance Boost
Strobe Training Courtesy of Peter Friesen, @NHLCanes If you're training for a marathon, you might consider hooking on some ankle weights to provide push-back, making the training more difficult but...
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Can A Human Fall In Love With A Computer?
Her Scarlett Johansson plays the voice of a software program in the movie Her. Popular Science The film Her, which opens across the country this month, tells a love story between a man and some...
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The Internet Of You
The Internet Of You Paul Lachine When people describe the Internet of Things, they’re referring to a network of Web-enabled devices that speak to one another. In the home, that could mean a phone that...
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Why A Cholesterol-Reading Smartphone App Is Totally Not Worth It
A Cholesterol-Reading Smartphone Add-On Several researcher groups have made prototype diagnostic apps and add-ons for smartphones, like this one. The market for these is difficult, however. Cornell...
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The Wright Brothers And The Birth Of The Airplane
The original camp built by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk in 1900. Popular Science archives On December 17, 1903, Wilbur and Orville Wright took their famous first flight in Kitty Hawk, N.C. After...
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Video: The Physics Of Emperor Penguin Huddles
Emperor Penguin Huddle Like annoying (yeah, I said it) people at ball games, emperor penguins do the wave. Like so:The waves happen when the penguins huddle together, a behavior that helps them stay...
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6 Bright Microscopic Images Of Life
Humped Bladderwort Trap Entrance This carnivorous plant consumes microscopic organisms that get caught in its mouth. Igor Siwanowicz For the tenth year in a row, miscroscope and camera manufacturer...
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Let This Amazing Hydrophobic Shirt Keep You Dry, You Slob
Human beings! Clothes-wearers! Folks who maybe drank some milk right out of the jug one time and spilled it all over themselves but okay it was Saturday night and no one was around and whatever it's...
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New Study Finds Milky Way Has Four Arms, Not Two
The Milky Way ESO/C. Malin A new study provides evidence that our own home galaxy actually has four major spiral “arms,” instead of two. Can I just point out this is 100 percent more arms than our...
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Hack Your E-ZPass So It Alerts You Whenever It's Scanned
E-ZPass Toll Road Bobby Hidy/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0) Tollbooth plazas aren’t the only locations that scan car tags like the E-ZPass. One wary driver in New York City, known to the Web as Puking Monkey,...
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Green Energy Scheme To Burn Beetle-Infested Trees For Electricity
Lodgepole Pine Forest, Yellowstone National Park, 1965 Lodgepole pine forests, such as this one, are vulnerable to infestations of the mountain pine beetle. The dead trees in this image, however, are...
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Nigeria Shows Off Its First Drone
NIgeria's GULMA Drone Vanguard Behold the GULMA. Unveiled by Nigerian President Jonathan Goodluck on Monday, the GULMA is the country's first locally designed drone. The drone bears a passing...
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The Editor's Letter From The January 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Space School Cody Pickens I took a job at Popular Science in 2006, fresh from a yearlong stint as a health and fitness editor. On my first day, in a story meeting, I confidently and casually praised...
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Foundation Offers $1 Million Prize For A Bioengineered Liver
Can You Make One Of These? Jesse Lenz How much is a liver worth? For someone on a waiting list for a transplant, that might be hard to tally. But one nonprofit is now saying it’s willing to pay a...
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