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Which Weather Satellite Is Watching You? [Infographic]
Zone Coverage NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Meteosat-9 image courtesy of NASA/Rob Simmons using EUMETSAT data ©2010 Hurricane Sandy image courtesy of NASA GOES Project Space object illustration...
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Humans Can't Be Empathetic And Logical At The Same Time
Logic Versus Empathy Anthony I. Jack, Abigail Dawson, Katelyn Begany, Regina L. Leckie, Kevin Barry, Angela Ciccia, Abraham SnyderBrain scans find that the two modes are mutually exclusive. Logic and...
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From Hiroshima To The H-Bomb, 10 Earth-Shaking Moments In Atomic Science
Hydrogen bomb test U.S. Department of Energy Sixty years ago today, the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb. Here's how we got there. Plus, the atomic spaceship we're still waiting for. Today marks...
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New Mission Will Explore Bizarre Gravitational Anomaly Around Earth
STE-QUEST Planned Orbit This map shows the ground track of the STE-QUEST satellite's 16-hour orbit. Jorge Paramos and Gerald Hechenblaikner/via arXivWhen spacecraft careen around Earth for a gravity...
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A Music Player You Can Hear Through Your Skull
Sound Bites Courtesy Aisen Caro ChacinHere's to listening to music while staying grilled out nicely. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte may flash a diamond-studded, patriotic grill when he smiles from the...
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This Giant Stellar Bubble Looks Like A Dog's Head
Wolf-Rayet Bubble S 308 ESA, J. Toala & M. Guerrero (IAA-CSIC), Y.-H. Chu & R. Gruendl (UIUC), S. Arthur (CRyA-UNAM), R. Smith (NOAO/CTIO), S. Snowden (NASA/GSFC) and G. Ramos-Larios (IAM)The...
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The Jersey Shore, Before and After Sandy
Satellite images show ravages to the coastal community of Seaside Heights The boardwalk made famous by MTV's "Jersey Shore" was mostly destroyed in this week's superstorm, along with much of the...
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What Does The U.S. Look Like To Political Ad Buyers? [Infographic]
What Does The U.S. Look Like To SuperPACs? Adam Cole/NPRWhen you make the geography reflect the electoral college, things get weird. SuperPACS and other political spenders understand that. With the...
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BeerSci: Uncovering The Secrets Of Barley
Different Stalks Brewers make note of which kind of barley they use: On the left, six-row barley. On the right, two-row barley. J.G. Davis, Bugwood.orgScientists sequenced the barley genome recently....
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A Weaponized Insect Army And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Insect Army Dutch artist Job Van Der Molen taxidermied a series of insects, adding toy weaponry to them after. Because you can never be too prepared. Job Van Der Molen via designboom Including...
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Meet The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On...
Ken Mampel Courtesy Ken MampelKen Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week,...
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Lonely Asian Elephant Learns To Speak 5 Words In Korean
Asian Elephant Wikimedia CommonsUniversity of Vienna researchers analyze how and why a young elephant learned to imitate human speech. If you speak any Korean--or are familiar with Season 2 of Arrested...
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How The U.S. Coast Guard Is Fixing The N.J. Oil Spill Caused By Sandy
The Coast Guard's Google map of the Motiva Oil Spill Google Petroleum tanks damaged during the storm spilled an estimated quarter million gallons of oil into New Jersey waterways. Now crews are working...
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This Week In The Future: Barbarians Duke It Out With Giant Rats
This Week In The Future, October 28-November 2, 2012 BaarbarianIn the future, when the tiny rat has radioactively transformed into a man-sized beast, we'll don our armor and fight. Want to win this...
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3 Ways To Go Along For The Ride With The Curiosity Rover
Along For The RideCourtesy NASAThe Curiosity rover may be 190 million miles from Earth, but there are many ways you can share in its adventure. 1. SOCIAL ROBOTSThrough Twitter, Curiosity has found its...
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Why Living Cells Are The Future Of Data Processing
Intelligent Life Slime mold grows toward patches of food with the efficiency of a network engineer. Courtesy Andrew AdamatzkyBiocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and...
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How I Hacked An Electronic Voting Machine
A simple non-cyber attack on an electronic voting machineVulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National LabWhat do you need to rig an election? A basic knowledge of electronics and $30 worth of...
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Are Presidential Debates Funnier Than Sitcoms?
Romney v. ObamaWikimedia CommonsReady for election season to be over? Maybe it's time to curl up with a good sitcom and wait this thing out. Except new research out of Australia suggests that,...
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Amputee Climbs 103 Stories Using Mind-Controlled Bionic Leg
Willis TowerWikimedia CommonsThe latest in smart limb technology went on public display for the first time Nov. 4. A man with a mind-controlled bionic leg climbed to the top of Chicago's famous Sears...
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Archive Gallery: The Science Of Elections
Counting QuickerA peek behind the curtain of the voting machine Voting is pretty simple on its face. Cast the ballots, count 'em up, tell everybody who the President is. But we who have been living...
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