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Video: Ride On a Seabird's Back as It Dives Toward the Ocean Floor
Imperial Cormorant Wikipedia Giving video cameras to animals can yield some awesome results, especially underwater - remember the octopus guerrilla filmmaker? In a new video, ride on the back of a...
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Aussie Tycoon Wants to Clone Dinosaurs for His Real Life, Resort-Based...
Jurassic Park ... the ride. Wikipedia In other billionaire news today, a controversial and ostentatious Australian is supposedly planning a real-life Jurassic Park, complete with cloned dinosaurs....
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Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router
Wi-Spy Click here to see this amazing image even larger. Kevin Hand In the 1930s, U.S. Navy researchers stumbled upon the concept of radar when they noticed that a plane flying past a radio tower...
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The First Shirt That Lowers Your Body Temperature
Ice Tee Courtesy Columbia Sportswear The human body already has a highly efficient cooling system: As perspiration evaporates, it draws heat away from the body. Wicking fabrics facilitate this process...
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Europe Will Require New Vehicles to Include Autonomous Self-Braking System
Autonomous Emergency Braking Euro NCAP Cars in Europe may soon become very much more robotic whether drivers want them to or not. New rules coming down from the European Commission will require all...
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Video: Google Street View Adds Space Shuttles, Launch Pads and More At...
VAB Street View With Space Shuttle Atlantis Google America's space shuttles may be settling into their retirement roles as national artifacts, but for space fans who miss their presence at Kennedy...
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The Next Generation of Mars Rovers Could Be Smaller Than Grains of Sand
Nanobots on Mars Sand-size robots that travel on the wind. Murray Robertson/Nanovisions/John BakerWhy send truck-sized rovers when you can send nanobots? NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, scheduled to reach...
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The Best Way to Measure Intelligence Could Be Brain Imaging
Global Brain Connectivity WUSTL Image/Michael Cole There are a lot of hurdles to accurately predicting intelligence, from the difficulty of defining exactly what it is to accurately understanding the...
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New LHC Results: We Were Sure We Found the Higgs Boson, and Now We're Even Surer
Big Smash: Atlas's eight giant superconducting magnets, together powerful enough to crush a bus CERNA nearly 6-sigma result says we are now surer than sure that the God particle is real Researchers at...
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India Will Launch Probe to Mars Next Year
India's PSLV-C12 India's space program successfully launched the PSLV-C12 satellite in 2009. EPA/ISRO/HO While we in the U.S. wait with bated breath for Mars Rover Curiosity's August 5 landing on the...
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Why Is It So Hard to Land On Mars?
As Mars rover Curiosity approaches its terrifying landing, we have to face the fact that ‘Mars wins most of the time' Mars is not a friendly place. It's freezing, windy, barren, and quiet except for...
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Navy Experimental Rail Gun to Fire GPS-Guided Projectiles
The U.S. military has been looking for ways to smarten up its dumb projectiles for years--look no further than this GPS guided mortar round recently fielded by the army--hoping to increase lethality...
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Russian Robotic Spacecraft Completes First Same-Day Docking at ISS, Just Six...
Progress 48 on Approach to the ISS Just Hours After Launching NASA TV Russia just set a speed record for a sprint that took place a long way from London. An unmanned Russian Progress cargo ship...
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How The Largest Health Surveillance System Ever Created Is Preventing An...
How do you tell if a flu is dangerous enough to bring down the Olympics? Map diseases in real-time, throughout the entire country Right now in London and various sites around the UK, more than half a...
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Stock Trading Robot Makes Decisions Based on Superstitious Algorithms
Tokyo Stock Exchange Flickr/Stéfan When we feel there's a situation out of our control, we often fall back on superstition to account for it. ("Nothing else is working, why not blame it on that black...
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Physicists Demonstrate Working Quantum Router, a Step Toward a Quantum Internet
Quantum Computer Chip Wikimedia Commons As much as we love our silicon semiconductors, quantum computers are very much a technology of the future. Instead of the usual string of 1s and 0s, they'll be...
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NASA Invests $1.1 Billion in Manned Commercial Trips to Space
SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket SpaceXSpaceX, Boeing, and Sierra Nevada chosen to take Americans into orbit The dust has settled on the final round of NASA's Commercial Crew integrated Capability program...
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Fiendish Creator of Browser Game QWOP Releases CLOP
Get It? CLOP? foddy.netIn which you play a unicorn, or at least its legs We're big fans of innovative gameplay here at PopSci, and the web browser can provide the perfect, simple canvas for that. For...
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What Our Eyes Say About Our Sexual Preferences
Pupil Sarah CartwrightWomen are more flexible in their desires than men, study suggests Cornell University researchers used porn and measures of pupil dilation to study arousal in straight-, gay- and...
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PopSci Video: NASA Engineers Land the Mars Rover Curiosity
We visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to find out how to get to Mars [/dme:striplines] PopSci went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and spoke to NASA directors, to discover firsthand just how one...
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