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Study Finds No Time Travelers On The Internet
Clock og2t via Flickr If you had traveled from the future to the present, you might be likely to mention some things that you'd learned there (for example: buy this lottery ticket). Using this logic,...
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Breeding For High Milk Production Created Less-Fertile Cows
More Milk, Fewer Of These Guys Maryland Department of Agriculture After generations of careful breeding, dairy cows around the world produce more milk than ever. At the same time, they've actually...
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The Goods: January 2014's Hottest Gadgets
Edgertronic Courtesy Edgertronic  This article originally appeared in the January 2014 issue of Popular Science.   Â
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How Hawaii's Big Island Became GMO-Free
No GMO Here Beach on Hawaii Island, the state of Hawaii's largest Alaska Dave on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0So what exactly is the science on the safety of GMOs? There are a lot of pro- and...
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Canada's Ex-Defense Minister Says Aliens Would Give Earth Tech If We Were...
Alien believer RT / YouTube It's not necessarily shocking to hear somebody claim that at least four different species of aliens have visited the Earth, for thousands of years. But it is somewhat more...
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CES 2014: Monster Unveils Absurd Press Conference
Shaq and Noel Lee Colin Lecher The first press conference I visited today at the Consumer Electronics Show--the gigantic Las Vegas trade show Popular Science is covering this week--was for Monster...
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Annotated Machine: Chocolate Factory
Chocolate Factory Marcelo Coelho "I made the Digital Chocolatier, a machine that builds chocolates layer by layer, from the bottom up. Four tubes hold nuts or chocolate. The chocolate tubes are heated...
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U.S. May Soon Require Cars Be Able To Talk To Each Other
Communicating Cars Department of Transportation Officials will decide in the "coming weeks" whether all new cars in the U.S. must have the technology to communicate with other cars and warn drivers—or...
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CES 2014: Sharp Offers 4KTV Stopgap
Sharp AQUOS Quattron+ Sharp Electornics Moving from one video standard to another is a pretty messy process. It requires an entire ecosystem of cameras, players, displays, and software. One of the...
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CES 2014: Dish Shows Off A Family Of New TV Boxes
DISH's New Gear Colin Lecher A dead-eyed kangaroo mascot straight out of a third-tier baseball league fist-bumped me on the way in to the Dish press conference, inside a giant banquet hall, where the...
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CES 2014: Connected CrockPot Shows Why Internet of Things Should Exist
Belkin CrockPot WeMo Slow Cooker Belkin The Internet of Things is made of promises. Promises and, well, junk. Take, for example, the HapiFork; the smart utensil, which debuted at the Consumer...
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NSA Document From 1996 Warns Of 'Insider-Gone-Bad'
NSA Powerpoint Slide Even the slides get redacted. NSA A story quietly titled "Out of Control," published in a special 1996 issue of the National Security Agency's professional journal Cryptologic...
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For The First Time, China Crushes Tons Of Ivory Into Dust
Ivory crush Some of the ivory crushed by the U.S. government in November 2013. USFWS / YouTube There is little good news when it comes to elephants--the animals are in trouble due to record levels of...
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A Pill Could Help You Acquire Perfect Pitch
Musical notes Prof.rick via WikiMedia Commons Only 1 in 10,000 people have absolute or "perfect" pitch, the ability to hear a tone and tell what note it is. This unusual ability is acquired early in...
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CES 2014: Sony Goes Long On 4K, And Shows Off A New Phone
Sony At CES Colin Lecher 4K, the heir apparent to HDTV, is still expensive, and even if you can afford it, you're not going to find too much video that works with it. Sony, though, with a lot already...
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How Honey Bees Point Their Way To Food
A honey bee on a flower Bob Peterson, via Flickr Honey bees can give each other directions using polarized light as a landmark to find potential food. Light becomes polarized as it reaches us through...
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CES 2014: MakerBot Unveils Enormous 3-D Printer
MakerBot Replicator Z-18 MakerBot Bre Petis isn't messing around at his first big Consumer Electronics Show press conference. The final of three new MakerBot Replicators the company founder unveiled...
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CES 2014: Corsair's Disco-Trippy Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
Corsair MX RGB Corsair To understand Corsair's MX RGB Project gaming keyboard, you have to know two things: First, its keys sport mechanical switches, made by a German company called Cherry...
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The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn't Read
Neurons Patrick Hoesly on Flickr One morning, a kindergarten teacher was about to take attendance for her class when she realized she couldn't read the paper in her hands. She tried looking over her...
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