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Boo! Give Yourself A Dead Hand, Plus 3 More Easy DIY Halloween Tricks
Sad, sad pumpkin Wikimedia CommonsTerrify your friends 1964-style. Bonus: the simplest jack-o'-lantern ever One of the best things about children is that they're so easy to scare. And Halloween is the...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity's First X-Rays Determine Mars Soil Is Like Hawaii's
Curiosity's First X-Ray This graphic shows results of the first analysis of Martian soil by the Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) experiment on NASA's Curiosity rover. NASA/JPL-Caltech/AmesIsn't that...
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Smartphone-Using Teens Have More Sex, New Study Says
Teen Texting GoodNCrazy via FlickrBut correlation does not imply causation. A new as-yet-unpublished study claims that teens who have smartphones are more likely to set up hookups. It may be because...
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Large Hadron Collider Unleashes Rampaging Zombies
Physics Zombie DecayCould radiation from the Higgs boson turn us all into monsters?? No, but watch this fun trailer, filmed on-site at the LHC by physics students. At first I thought the zombie trend...
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Monsters Are People Too, Says Dungeons And Dragons Study
Creeper's Peepers A monster's eyes grab our gaze almost immediately, even when they're located on strange body parts like the hands of this Dungeons and Dragons rock golem. Tom FoulshamA study...
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A Laser To The Brain Eliminates Bad Habits In Rats
Habit Control Your pre-frontal cortex, where thought and planning occurs, also switches your habits on and off. Wikimedia CommonsMIT researchers have identified and manipulated the part of the brain...
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Daily Infographic: A Family Tree Of Every Bird On Earth
All Of the Birds The family tree of all birds. Click here to make it bigger. University of SheffieldThis family tree reveals that species formation has sped up in the past 50 million years, especially...
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NYC Hospital Exec On Sandy: 'The Impact On Science Will Be Terrible'
Research labs at New York University have been devastated by Hurricane Sandy, according to an executive at a New York City hospital who spoke with Deadspin anonymously. The laboratories reportedly have...
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A Working Tetris Game Inside A Pumpkin
Pumpktris Your jack-o-lantern is inferior. YouTubeCarving a face into a pumpkin isn't nearly as awesome as this. Nathan Pryor at HaHa Bird has essentially won Halloween. Rather than carving a boring...
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The Goods: November 2012's Hottest Gadgets
Etón FRX3 Hand Turbine AM/FM Weather Alert Radio EtónThe apocalypse edition: Featuring a tiny hand-turbine that's good in a pinch, a jacket for firestorms or nuclear winter, and a stove that can burn...
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The iPad Mini, Undressed
The iPad Mini's Battery iFixit Our friends over at iFixit got their hands on the new iPad Mini and, as is their wont, tore it to pieces. They say it's not, surprise surprise, particularly well-suited...
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PopSci Teardown: Black & Decker Matrix Quick Connect System
The Transformer Click here for an annotated look at the teardown. Brian KlutchHow a cordless drill replaces an entire workbench's worth of gear. For everyday jobs, a do-it-yourselfer needs-at minimum-a...
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FYI: Why Does Salt Water Make Hurricane Damage So Much Worse?
Damage To New York Transit Metropolitan Transportation Authority of the State of New York via FlickrThe white stuff can stick around and ruin, well, pretty much everything. That puts the officials...
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NOAA's New Storm-Chasing Robot Survives Sandy And Reports Back
Wave Glider Liquid RoboticsDeployed off the coast of New Jersey earlier this week, the modified Wave Glider robot gathered realtime data from Sandy as the storm approached landfall Monday. Back in...
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The Local News: Now Brought To You By Drones?
Drone Journalism At The University Of Nebraska A program dedicated to exploring the role of unmanned systems in news gathering issues its first report from the field. Over at the University of...
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In Robotic Reality Experiment, Rat-Sized Humans Meet Human-Sized Rats
How To Interact With A Mouse PLoS ONEVirtual reality does away with the interspecies size boundary. As much as humans like animals, we don't really see them the same way as we see other humans. But a...
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Did Global Warming Destroy My Hometown?
Last May, a massive tornado leveled Joplin, Missouri. Was it chance, or a warning of things to come?
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NYC Mayor Bloomberg, Citing Climate Change, Endorses Obama
Michael Bloomberg nyc.gov New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has had Barack Obama and Mitt Romney trying to court him for some time now, both hoping the third-term independent could help move some swing...
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Brain Scan Shows That Thinking About Math Is As Painful As A Hot Stove Burn,...
Maxwell's Equations Wikimedia CommonsBut it's just the anticipation--actually doing the math doesn't hurt. Are you the type of person who has a calculator app at the ready, helping figure out...
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News Writers: Stop Trying To Scare People With Made-Up Storm Language
Superstorm? Robert Simmon with data courtesy of the NASA/NOAA GOES Project Science teamHurricane Sandy wasn't a "superstorm." Not because it wasn't a "super" "storm," but because "superstorm" is an...
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