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Performing Self-Surgery to Become a Handmade Cyborg
Becoming a Cyborg The Verge Today in great reads: The Verge's Ben Popper has a killer story up about the world of underground body hackers--those souls brave and crazy enough to perform surgery on...
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The Coolest Warbots, Drones, and Unmanned Tech at the Robotic Systems Show
Here in Vegas, at North America's biggest unmanned systems show, warbots abound even as the defense industry explores its civilian side LAS VEGAS--The exhibition floor at the Association for Unmanned...
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How A Sundial Lets Curiosity See Mars in Living Color
Curiosity's Sundial Courtesy Tyler NordgrenIs that rock brick-red, ochre or salmon-colored? PASADENA, Calif. -- We've seen a brief sample of the full-color environment at Gale Crater on Mars, but...
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Amazing Photos From Mars Rover Curiosity's Viewing Parties
The Mars Science Laboratory Team Celebrates NASA/Bill IngallsNASA's reaction, a Times Square viewing, and Curiosity's first images from the Red Planet More than just a scientific mission, Mars rover...
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Video: The Army's Massive LEMV Airship Makes its Maiden Flight (Finally)
LAS VEGAS--Military personnel and defense contractors attending the year's largest unmanned systems convention here awoke this morning to a bit of breaking robotics news unraveling thousands of miles...
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Video: A Japanese Company Will Scan and Print You a Statue of Your Gestating...
3-D Print Your Unborn Child Of course with any luck that child is going to be born one day, and then it is going to grow up and see this, and that's going to be weird. FasotecThe perfect gift for any...
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Video: The Trucker Who Reverse-Engineered An Atomic Bomb In His Spare Time
[/dme:striplines] PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos that run the gamut from in-depth, investigative...
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FYI: Does Training at High Altitudes Help Olympians Win?
Swiss Olympic Training Base Wikimedia CommonsAfter decades of research we (mostly) know the answer It's widely assumed that training on top of a mountain will give an athlete a major leg-up when...
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MIT's Smart Handheld Woodworking Tool Makes Precise Cuts Automatically
MIT Router From left to right: Ilan E. Moyer, Alec Rivers, and Frédo Durand with their new woodworking router tool. Frédo DurandThis router re-routes its routing It can be satisfying to build something...
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To Test the Cutting Edge In Weather Radar, PopSci Goes Storm Chasing in an...
Relevant Weather in The Flight Path The IntuVue system scans the entire sky from the ground to 60,000 feet, but unless the pilot manually instructs it to it only displays the weather relevant to the...
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Protein With Liquid Built In Could Be Key to Life Without Water
Myoglobin Structure Wikimedia Commons For all our attempts to find it on other worlds, water may not be the most essential molecule for life, a new study suggests. A protein that brings oxygen to...
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Giant 3-D Printer to Make An Entire House in 20 Hours
3-D Printing Concrete Houses Contour Crafting 3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food and more - why not entire buildings? A professor at the University of Southern California aims to...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Sends First Full-Color Panorama of Its New Martian Home
Curiosity's First Panorama This is the first 360-degree panorama in color of Curiosity's landing site in Gale Crater on Mars. The panorama was made from 130 different 144-pixel by 144-pixel thumbnails...
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Red Bull Creation: Create The Future, Episode 1
Meet Ryan Doyle In July, we partnered with Red Bull on the Creation event, in which teams of makers competed to build, well, great stuff. To get in on the action, they had to create an Arduino-based...
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Lockheed Martin's 'Flying Humvee' Concept Gets a Lift from the F-35 Joint...
When DARPA launched its Transformer (TX) program back in early 2010, PopSci responded as most media did by applauding the ambition while simultaneously harboring serious skepticism. In essence the DoD...
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Test Drive: The 2013 Audi Allroad
2013 Audi Allroad AudiFor those who want the flexibility and power of a Subaru, but just a bit more ritzy For those who want something more active than a wagon but smaller than a SUV, there aren't a...
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May 1941: Eat Ice Cream Before Exercising or Replace it With Shopping
How Much Exercise Do We Need? Popular ScienceAnd plenty more dated exercise tips from the PopSci archive This article originally appeared in the May 1941 issue of Popular Science. You can explore more...
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F=ma: Prosperity Isn't How Much You Move--It's How You Move It
Smart Growth Ryan SnookA new column by Luke Mitchell Science is how people attempt to see the world as it truly is. That's why I'm drawing the title of this new column from the wisdom of the greatest...
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Curiosity's Legacy: What This Week's Successful Landing Means for the Future...
Mars Science Lab, Descending NASA/JPL-CaltechMars Rover Curiosity's science legacy is yet to be determined, but its impact on the future of space exploration is already shaping up Mars rover Curiosity...
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The Test Olympians Use to Improve Their Performance--On the Inside
Ruben Sanca on the Track Courtesy Ruben SancaTraining is about more than speedwork and fundamentals To help prepare for track meets, competitive 5K races and especially the Olympics, Boston-based...
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