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Creating 150 MPH Hurricanes in a Giant Aquarium in Florida
SUSTAIN Cambridge SevenA massive, indoor hurricane simulator could save your life About two years ago, Brian Haus, the chair of the Division of Applied Marine Physics at the University of Miami, was...
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How Tablets Will Remake Television
Double Vision Alison Seiffer The days of leaning back to watch TV have ended. Eighty-eight percent of tablet owners say they use the device in front of the tube; they find tweets, news, video and other...
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Karate Experts' Superhuman Punch Comes From a Unique Brain Structure
Karate WC Tampere 2006 Wikimedia Commons If you've seen the board-breaking power of a professional martial artist and thought it looked superhuman, don't worry: for a while now science couldn't fully...
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Strong Hands and Voice Pitch Really Are Signs of Fertility
Strong, Fertile Hands Flickr/Nationaal Archief/a>New research strengthens the link between physical attributes and baby-making potential Recent research tells us that the sound of our voices betrays...
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Video: Fly Through A Billion Light Years of the Universe, Past Galaxy...
A massive cosmic cataloguing effort released a new crop of star and galaxy data last week, noting the locations and brightnesses of hundreds of thousands of objects. Now you can fly through some of...
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Diagnostic Eyedrops Could Make Patients' Eyes Light Up With Signs of...
Diagnosing the Brain by Gazing into the Eyes SheLovesGhosts via Wikimedia Neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, or Creutzfeld-Jacobs are tough to diagnose. Outward symptoms can...
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Billionaire Investor Peter Thiel Backs New Venture Aimed at Producing 3-D...
Peter Thiel's New 3-D Printing Challenge: Meat FotoosVanRobin via WikimediaCtrl + P for protein Billionaire Peter Thiel would like to introduce you to the other, other white meat. The investor's...
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Archive Gallery: Man vs. Shark
Fighting Sharks with a Homemade Harpoon/Shotgun Long cast as the enemy, sharks are really losing this war, as men arm themselves with shark guns, shark repellent and fish the bejeezus out of these...
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Rough Sketch: "This Squishy Arm is Cheap--Good For Search and Rescue"
Robotrunk Trevor Johnston Our 14-inch-long robotic elephant trunk has five segments, each made of a silicone membrane with an embedded metal spring that acts like an exoskeleton. The segments are...
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Visualized: Worldwide Shark Attacks Since 2000
Shark Attacks Around the World Source: International Shark Attack File At the Florida Museum of Natural History, filling up two five-drawer file cabinets are 2700 detailed accounts of shark attacks...
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A New Robot Dismantles Pipe Bombs While Leaving Forensic Evidence Intact
SAPBER A bomb-disposal robot (left) places a pipe bomb on top of SAPBER. RE2 Inc. The first priority in a bomb-related emergency is, of course, to safely dismantle the bomb. If it's a pipe bomb--the...
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Video: Penny-Sized Thrusters Could Turn Tiny Satellites Into Orbiting Garbagemen
The Components of Mini Ion Thrusters M. Scott Brauer The big rockets of our day get all of the fanfare during a launch, but often they're accompanied by tiny stowaways known as CubeSats, which hitch a...
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The Most Useful Testing Equipment For DIY Projects
Oscilloscope Kathryn Taylor In my work I rely on many pieces of test and measurement equipment just as much as my hand tools. Although I can accomplish a surprising amount with just a hammer, I can't...
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The Most Amazing Science Images Of The Week, August 13-17, 2012
Planes At Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona Photograph © Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto / Howard Greenberg & Bryce Wolkowitz, New York This week's...
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The Goods: August 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Logitech K760 Courtesy LogitechA dozen great ideas in gear In honor of this month's theme, the future of sports, try out some great running gear. Once you're done, kick back at a barbecue like a pro...
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Innocent Martian Rock Tweets As It's Zapped by Curiosity
Mars Rock N165 NASA The Martian rock recently named N165 found itself thrust into the limelight this week as it received a new neighbor from Earth--the Mars rover Curiosity. Some genius made a Twitter...
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In Hong Kong, Starbucks Biorefinery Turns Stale Pastry and Coffee Grounds...
Coffee & Pastries DeusXFlorida via Flickr Instead of burning it, composting it or just dumping it in landfills, food waste from your area coffee shop could be upcycled into new plastic or laundry...
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Video: Affordable Robot Hand Made with Cellphone Parts Can Replace Its Own...
The Sandia Hand Sandia Labs The human hand is incredibly complex, and no matter how many attempts we see to replicate it (lots of attempts), none seem to get it perfectly right. So a DARPA-funded...
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Synaptics Introduces Pressure-SensitiveTrackpad
Synaptics ForcePad SynapticsYou clicked, but how hard did you click? Trackpads have been a remarkably simple solution to what could've been a complicated problem: translating the mouse to a laptop. But...
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Quantum Processor Calculates That 15 = 3x5 (With Almost 50% Accuracy!)
Quantum Processor The device in this photomicrograph was used to run the first solid-state demonstration of Shor's algorithm. It is made up of four phase qubits and five superconducting resonators, for...
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