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The U.S. Air Force is Officially Seeking Cyber Weapons
USAF Electronic Warfare Simulation USAF Look, we all know the Pentagon is seeking cyber weapons. For defensive purposes only, of course, not for playing dirty cyber tricks on enemies of the state...
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Photo of the Day: NASA Tests Gigantic Parachutes for the Next Manned Space...
Orion Parachute Test A dart-shaped test vehicle that is used to simulate Orion's parachute compartment descends above the skies of the U.S. Yuma Army Proving Ground in Arizona. NASA Even the space...
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Hurricane Isaac Captured in Eerily Beautiful Images from Orbit
Isaac at Night, August 28, 2012 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center via Flickr Hurricane Isaac has now made two landfalls in southern Louisiana, and the Gulf Coast region is no doubt in for a long...
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FYI: How Long Can a Brain Live in a Dish?
Brain in a Dish Tony Latham/Getty Images Scientists have isolated the brains of dogs, cats and monkeys and kept them alive for short periods in one way or another. But the most successful "whole-brain...
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How to Thwart Bicycle Thieves
Foiled Again Trevor Johnston Thieves make off with at least 200,000 bikes every year. These four tools help keep two-wheelers locked down. LOCK The TiGr secures a bike's frame and both its wheels....
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Light-Activated Muscle Could Make Robots Move Like Real Creatures
New generations of bio-inspired robots will be more than just inspired by nature - they may use actual biological components. Bioengineers at MIT have genetically modified muscle cells to respond to...
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How the Future of Gaming Fell Apart
The promise of OnLive always seemed crazy: graphics-intensive major games are offloaded to remote servers and streamed to any device with an adequate internet connection. That means, yeah, Crysis on an...
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Cassini Beams Back Stunning Images of Seasons Changing on Saturn
Saturn, with Titan in the Foreground NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteGuest starring Titan, Saturn's largest moon Curiosity, you are such an amazing space mission that we will sacrifice a...
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PopSci Recommends: Steven Millhauser, Short Fiction's Greatest Historical...
Steven Millhauser Steven MillhauserMillhauser imagines technologies that never were Many of Steven Millhauser's best stories are wonders of historical futurism. He is interested in the road not taken,...
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Video: Controlling a Drone With Nothing But Your Thoughts
Controlling an AR.Drone with Thoughts Alone We recently gave the Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 a pretty solid review here on PopSci for improvements made to the recreational quadcopter's smartphone- or...
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South African Scientists Claim Breakthrough Drug Cures All Strains of Malaria
Plasmodium Falciparum in the Blood CDC via Wikimedia Malaria is the scourge of tropical nations, crippling its victims with symptoms like debilitating fever, convulsions and nausea, and killing half a...
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San Diego Zoo Wants Inventors to Design New Robots and Devices Inspired By...
Hummingbird-Inspired Robot Aerovironment The San Diego Zoo, one of the best-regarded zoos in the world, has spent several years promoting biomimicry and its potential benefits to the economy and...
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Video: A Body-Cooling Glove Could Give Athletes a Better Boost Than Steroids
Stanford's Cooling Glove Stanford University Almost all mammals have a network of veins near a hairless part of their skin that controls rapid temperature management--and it's no different for people....
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Video: Maryland Student Hovers 8 Feet High in Human-Powered Helicopter,...
Rising to Eight Feet High The bottom of each strip of tape on Elizabeth here marks one foot. Team Gamera Records are made to be broken, and a bunch of students at the University of Maryland are...
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After Embryo is Washed of Disease, Healthy Purebred Baby Buffalo Born in the...
Baby Bison The Bronx Zoo baby bison seen with its mother. Julie Larsen Maher/WCS The first "genetically pure" bison produced from a cleansed and transplanted embryo was born in June, officials at the...
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For Some Reason Apple Doesn't Want iPhone Users Keeping Tabs on the Drone Wars
Drones+ An app that alerts users to drone strikes around the world keeps getting denied by the Apple's App Store reviewers, and no one can explain why We've covered the technology aspects of the...
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Russia Wants a New Long-Range Bomber That Cracks Mach 5
Dmitry Rogozin, Russia's Deputy Prime Minister, Wants a Hypersonic Bomber A.Savin via Wikimedia There's a new arms race brewing, and this one is destined to be very, very fast. Russian Deputy Prime...
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Archive Gallery: PopSci Goes A-Ratting (And More Pest Control)
When You Go A-Ratting Traps, lamps, poison and fire About a month ago, my apartment had some unwelcome visitors in the form of cream-colored little worms writhing about on my kitchen and bathroom...
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In World First, Scientists Surgically Implant a Working Bionic Eye In a Blind...
Bionic Eye Bionic Vision Australia We've been waiting on the prospect of a bionic eye for a while now; being able to surgically give sight to the sightless would be a medical breakthrough, and we're...
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Tonight, See the Last "Blue Moon" Till 2015
Blue Moon Flickr/FrozenInLight A "blue moon" refers to the second full moon in a single month, so, no, it's not actually blue, but it's still a cool event--it won't happen again until July 2015--and...
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