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This Dwarf Planet Might Have More Fresh Water Than All Of Earth
Ceres NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), and L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park) This is poor, unfortunate Ceres. Discovered in 1801,...
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Text Message Tells Ukrainian Protesters Their Cellphones Are Being Tracked
Not in Iowa? Then Tough Luck Texting 911 Flickr/SleepynekoProtesters and others in the area of the protest in Kiev on the morning of January 21, local time, all received the same text message: "Dear...
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Tested: An App That Authenticates You By The Shape Of Your Ear
Ergo App Descartes Biometrics, Inc. on Google Play How unique are your ears? Maybe only Mom ever noticed them before, but, according to Michael Boczek, the particular way your ear touches your phone...
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School Snow Days Are Good For Education
Powdered Playground Skeezix1000, Wikimedia Commons When a storm is brewing and the streets are soon to be rendered useless by mounds of snow, there's really only one thing running through every...
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Put On This Virtual Reality Helmet, Then Swap Your Gender
Gender Swap BeAnotherLab The virtual reality headset Oculus Rift is a marvel of interactive immersion for gaming: throw it on, and instead of using the medium of a controller or keyboard, it's...
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Lasers To Join Israel's Missile Defense System
An Iron Dome Radar Natan Flayer, via Israel Defense Forces Intercepting and destroying projectiles in midair is costly business. Rockets, like the Qassams and Katyushas fired into Israel by Hezbollah...
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Ask Anything: Do Plants Get Cancer?
Leaves PixelPlaceBo/Getty Images In animals, a tumor develops when a cell (or group of cells) loses the built-in controls that regulate its growth, often as a result of mutations. Plants can...
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South Korea's 5G To Let Citizens Download A Full Movie In One Second
So Wired From an illustration for Popular Science by John PicacoSouth Korea's science ministry is investing $1.5 billion in building 5G wireless service for the country by 2020, AFP reports. Some of...
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Good News: Life On Earth Will Not Boil Away As Soon As Previously Thought
Coronal Mass Ejection NASA Look around you. See the plants, the animals; most importantly, feel the earth beneath your toes. One day, the sun will brighten, and everything on the planet will burn. The...
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A World Without The Winter Olympics
Chamonix 1924, Ski jump, Jacob Tullin Thams of Norway Olympic.org In 1924, at the French ski resort of Chamonix, the very first Winter Olympics got off to a precarious start. “A new thaw which set in...
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New River Dolphin Species Found in Brazil, First Since 1918
River dolphin An Amazon river dolphin, which looks nearly identical in outward appearance to the newfound species. Dennis Otten via Wikimedia Commons Researchers have discovered a new species of river...
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Big Pic: The U.S. Navy Tests A Virtual Reality Headset
Project BlueShark John F. Williams, U.S. Navy Oculus Rift is an amazing virtual reality headset. Originally designed for video games, it's been used for exploring gender, piloting drones, and...
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Why Can't I Look Away From This Lava Destroying A Coke Can?
 In the video here, you will see, as promised, a can of Coca-Cola devoured by lava. There are two cans, even. I am hypnotized by this. Is it the juxtaposition of the incredibly mundane with the...
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'Placebo Sleep' Can Improve Cognitive Skills
Sweet Dreams? Wikimedia Commons If you can't get real sleep, perhaps you can make up for it with placebo sleep. Or such is the suggestion of a new study that found that people did better on cognitive...
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3-D Printed Flowers, For People Incapable Of Growing Things
 Hey, nerds: instead of tending a garden, which takes forever, consider this project, wherein you 3-D print an inflatable flower. It might even be the world's first inflatable, 3-D printed thing. The...
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Killing One Owl, To Save Another, Ruffles Feathers
Northern spotted owl US Fish and Wildlife Service To save the endangered northern spotted owl, biologists have begun killing barred owls, a more widespread and aggressive bird that has invaded the...
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U.S. Computer Scientists Reject Mass Surveillance
Sign at the headquarters of the National Security Agency National Security Agency Fifty prominent American computer scientists have signed an open letter urging the United States to reject mass...
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India Forces Drug Companies To Give Up Patents Early
Pills iStockphoto Nexavar, a kidney and liver cancer drug made by Bayer, costs an estimated $69,000 for a year of treatment, Forbes reported in 2012. That year, an Indian company got a license to make...
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Big Pic: An Ultramassive Black Hole
J1532 X-ray: NASA/CXC/Stanford/J.Hlavacek-Larrondo et al, Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/M.Postman & CLASH team One of the most powerful things in the universe wears a sparkly purple coat. Well, at least...
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Desktop Scanner Portraits And Other Amazing Images From This Week
Oh, God, Help These Poor People Thoughtful art project, or people trapped by a wizard in a desktop-scanner dimension? It is the latter. Send assistance immediately. Why are you just sitting there?...
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