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Giant Cave Spider Discovered in Oregon
What other fauna lurk undiscovered? Oregon is not a safe place for arachnophobes, with at least 500 species of spiders known to inhabit forests, rotten logs and other dwellings. And now there's this...
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A Robot Drill For Mars Will Be NASA's Next Interplanetary Mission
InSight The InSight (Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) lander will take Mars' vital signs: Its "pulse" (seismology), "temperature" (heat flow probe), and...
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SWITCH60 Review: The First Liquid-Cooled LED Bulb Will Light Up Your House...
60-Watt Equivalent The liquid silicone-filled bulb can stay much cooler than other LED light bulbs, which helps it emit a more pleasant, incandescent-like warm light. SWITCHBut it will lighten your...
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Change of Venue
Change of Venue 1 Graham MurdochShape-shifting stadiums could transform the way we watch sports Almost as soon as RFK Stadium opened in 1961, it became clear that the stadium was a dud. Football fans...
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Army Sends Mobile 3-D Printing Labs to Afghanistan For On-Demand Gear
Soldiers in Afghanistan U.S. Army 3-D printing has yielded items both fascinating and potentially troubling. Now we can add one more to the list of printed achievements: The U.S. Army has had a rapid...
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NASA Engineer Switches His Entire Family to Mars Time
Mars Watch Face This is a watch face designed by a specialty watchmaker in Montrose, Calif., who built them for Mars rover drivers. JPL Since the moment the Mars rover Curiosity landed in Gale Crater...
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Rape Results In More Pregnancies Than Consensual Sex, Not Fewer
Todd Akin United States CongressFact-checking Todd Akin As you've probably heard by now, in an interview Sunday, Missouri Representative and Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin said he believed that...
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Video: Greg Needel Creates a Robotic Beer Cooler With a Cannon
Greg Needel's Beer Red Bull Here's the second video in our series of maker profiles as part of the Red Bull Creation competition. In this installment, you'll meet Greg Needel, mechanical engineer,...
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Distant Red Giant Caught Devouring One of Its Planets
Red Giant Sun This artist's concept shows what might happen to the Earth when the sun enters its red giant phase. Astronomers believe they have found the first evidence of a red giant consuming one of...
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Video: DARPA's Lightweight, Inflatable Robotic Arm Lifts Four Times its Own...
DARPA's Inflatable, Robotic AIR Arm via Danger Room The future of military robotics isn't all heavy metal and humanoid soldier-bots. If DARPA's newest warbot implement is any indication, the future is...
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Autotransfusion Device Collects Stray Blood During Surgery and Pumps it Back...
Autotransfusion Device University of Strathclyde Massive blood loss, known as MBL in the medical world, is a major cause of death during cardiac surgery--and an accepted one, because it's the best...
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Solving Age-Old Mysteries By Going Beyond the Spectrum of Visible Light
Hyperspectral Photography Abby Brack Lewis Our friends at American Photo have a great feature up today about hyperspectral photography, a technique that takes advantage of the fact that photographs...
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Video: DARPA's New Amphibious Tank Prototype Drives On Water
DARPA's Captive Air Amphibious Transporter And that's at 1/5 the actual size. DARPA's Tactically Expandable Maritime Platform (TEMP) program is a wide-ranging effort to pack standard ISO shipping...
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Video: New Dad Builds a Baby Monitor Out of Lasers and a Wiimote
Laser Baby Three lasers create point sources of light that are tracked by a Wiimote to ensure the baby is breathing. Gjoci's Baby Monitor Preparing for a newborn baby is a lot of work, from buying the...
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Keep Your Bananas Ripe by Spraying Them With Recycled Shrimp Shells
Bananas A new chemical coating could keep bananas from ripening. ginsnob via Flickr Science spends a lot of time taking care of bananas - inventing refrigerated ships, crushing acres' worth of them to...
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New Camouflage Face Paint Could Shield Soldiers From Bomb Blasts' Heat
Standard Camouflage Paint U.S. Army When a roadside bomb or other explosive device goes off, it hits everything nearby with an extreme blast of pressure. Almost simultaneously comes a heat--more than...
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FYI: Is There Any Way to Prevent Toe Cramps?
Toe Cramps Superstock/Getty Images Short answer: Not really. Long answer: All muscles are capable of cramping, but the ones farthest away from your spinal cord-in your feet and lower legs, for...
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Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Makes Its First Test-Drive
Destination: 10 feet over yonder Two weeks after being expertly parked in Mars's Gale Crater by NASA's sky crane apparatus, Mars rover Curiosity has made its first test-drive. It wasn't a particularly...
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Audio: Gibbons On Helium Sing Soprano
Gibbon Flickr/Thomas Tolkien Researchers have just discovered that gibbons not only compete with our top ranks of singers--they have the technique down pat with almost no effort. How did we find this...
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Video: Inside NASA's Spectacular Undersea Mission to Save Earth from a Deadly...
With Neil deGrasse Tyson, visiting a simulated asteroid under the sea PopSci is pleased to present videos created by Motherboard, Vice Media's guide to future culture. Motherboard's original videos...
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