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Tomorrow, NASA's Twin Radiation Belt Probes Launch for the Most Hostile...
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes JHU-APL In the wake of Curiosity's landing on Mars, a return to regular science missions in Earth orbit may seem a bit pedestrian. But tomorrow morning just after 4...
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Video: A Real Working Hoverbike Zooms Across the Desert
Tandem-Duct Aerial Aerofex Future tech doesn't always look the way the '70s might've predicted, but sometimes it does. Case in point: this beautiful, fully functional hoverbike that could've been torn...
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A Blueprint to Let Anyone 3-D Print an Open-Source Gun At Home
Gun With Printed Lower Receiver Defense Distributed We've already seen that it's possible to print parts of a gun--and have it work--using a 3-D printer. The project was highly controversial, but now a...
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The Future of Electronics is Just One Single Molecule Thick
Molybdenum disulfide works in ways single-atom-thick graphene won't, opening the door to a range of new electronics applications Where electronics are concerned, the future is two-dimensional and very,...
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Sea Chair Project Collects Ocean Plastic Garbage to Make Stylish Sitting Stools
Sea Chair The Sea Chair is made of plastic garbage harvested from the oceans. Studio Swine Of all the ideas for dealing with the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, this one may be closest to home - turn it...
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Amazing Video: Mars Rover Curiosity's Descent and Landing in High Res
Heat Shield Away This image shows the 15-foot-diameter heat shield after it was jettisoned and was about 50 feet from the spacecraft. NASA/JPL-CaltechWith narration from JPL humans As promised, NASA...
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Pop Review: The Nintendo 3DS XL Proves Bigger Is Sometimes Better
Nintendo 3DS vs 3DS XL Dan NosowitzSurprisingly immersive 3-D gaming, anywhere We've said it before, but our favorite application for 3-D--really, the only venue in which we don't hate it--is gaming....
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Video: Squid Skin Dances When You Blast Cypress Hill At It
Caudal Fin of the Squid Backyard BrainsInsane in the chromatophores Animals use electricity to move, and so electricity can be used to make them move, as the scientists at Backyard Brains show in a...
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Cloud Seeding Could Cool Off Seas Where Hurricanes Form, Making Them Weaker
Hurricanes form in warm tropical waters, drawing strength from the heat of the ocean surface - that's why they are expected to worsen as sea surface temperatures increase. But if we could cool them...
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Scientists Turn Adult Red Blood Cells Into Embryonic Stem Cells
DHM Image of Red Blood Cells Wikimedia Commons Despite the ethical and political differences they incite, stem cells are still a miraculous medicine, potentially able to change into whatever a sick...
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Paralympic Athletes Try to Get a Performance Boost By Hurting Themselves
Paralympics Opening Ceremony Wikimedia Commons We've heard of odd rules put in place (marijuana use comes to mind) to keep Olympians and Paralympians from gaining an unfair advantage, but this is odd...
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Electronic Sutures Can Check For Infections and Even Help Wounds Heal
Silicon Sutures John Rogers Stitches deserve a makeover. We've been using them in some form for thousands of years. So while they've stood the test of time, a researcher from the University of Illinois...
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The Most Amazing Images Of The Week, August 20-24, 2012
Muehleberg Nuclear Power Station Reuters/Ruben Sprich There's some history in this week's roundup of stunning images. For one, we have a photo of the Nevada atomic bomb tests from the '50s, taken from...
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Archive Gallery: Men In Ties Looking Silly For Science
JoyRide Scooter: February, 1960 Serious men, ridiculous photos Science is serious business, but sometimes new technology can look a bit silly before it's widely adopted (and especially if it's never...
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Mars Rover Curiosity's Tracks Are More Than Just Skid Marks in the Martian Dirt
Curiosity Tracks Curiosity's tracks spell "JPL" in Morse code. You can kind of make out the dashes and dots in this image, near the bottom left close to the wheel. NASA/JPL-Caltech The Mars rover...
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This Week in the Future, August 20-24, 2012
This Week in the Future, August 20-24, 2012 Baarbarian The gibbon is clearly in trouble. Will he succumb to the lure of the bananas, or will he be saved by the distraction of the helium? That is the...
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In Boring But Important Case, Samsung Has to Pay Apple Over $1 Billion
Why Samsung Gets Sued John Paczkowski of All Things D mocked up this chart to show why it shouldn't be surprising that Samsung gets sued for copying Apple--in fact, some of its products have actually...
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Sony Announces New Tiny Mirrorless Camera, the NEX-5R
Sony NEX-5R Dan Bracaglia Sony makes some of the best tiny interchangeable-lens cameras (ILCs) in the game, but ILCs have had issues in the past with autofocus on a technical level, due to the smaller...
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IBM Is Bringing Its Mega-Intelligence Watson to Your Smartphone
Siri is helpful when you want to schedule a reminder or look at the forecast, but wouldn't it be better to have a bona fide Jeopardy! champ in your pocket? IBM is trying to figure out how to bring the...
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Samsung Galaxy Note II Is Even Bigger
Big Phones Dan Bracaglia Lots of tech writers hated the Samsung Galaxy Note, a massive 5.3-inch-screened Android smartphone. So, this is probably definitive proof that absolutely nobody cares what we...
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