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XKCD Presents: The Up Goer Five
Is the Saturn V by any other name just as awe-inspiring? One of the biggest hurdles to understanding any technical field is mastering the bewildering array of specialty words and terms. We at PopSci...
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Tiny Layered Materials Make Ultra-Light Bulletproof Armor
Bulletproof This is an electron-microscope image of a cross-section of a layered polymer designed to withstand a speeding bullet. The crater was caused by an impacting glass bead, and the previously...
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FYI: What's The Lightest Metal On Earth?
Light, But Not DelicateCourtesy HRL LabsThis material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam--but it's also really strong! The lighter a structure launching into air, the better. That's one of the reasons...
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Your House Is Killing You. Here Are 7 Ways To Stop It
Is your living room making you sick? Flickr Creative CommonsA roundup of the high- and low-tech solutions to mitigate dangerous concentrations of airborne chemicals at home Your comfy couch. The wooden...
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The Greatest Milestones In Matter
OLEDWikimedia CommonsFrom iron to superconductors, materials' greatest hits. Click here to enter the gallery
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FYI: Can Japan's Latest Soft Drink Really Help You Lose Weight?
Pepsi SpecialSuntoryPepsi Special claims to block the body's ability to absorb fat. How does that work? Soft drinks and weight loss don't usually go hand-in-hand. But Pepsi aims to change that with a...
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Lenovo Yoga 13 Review: The Windows 8 Laptop You Should Buy
Lenovo Yoga 13 in Tablet Mode All folded up. Giant, but functional, tablet. Dan BracagliaA 360-degree hinge seems like a gimmick but actually works really well--and helps make this the easy pick of the...
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How James Bond's Aston Martin Survived A Huge Explosion In 'Skyfall'
Skyfall's James Bond and the Aston Martin DB5Eon ProductionsThe Aston Martin DB5 that made its first James Bond cameo in 1964's Goldfinger gets bullet-ridden and blown up in the new movie Skyfall....
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Watch Today's Total Solar Eclipse Live From The Middle Of Nowhere, Right Here
Australian Total Solar Eclipse The total solar eclipse as seen from Australia on December 3, 2002, combined with an ultraviolet view (green) of the sun's surface. NASA/ESAToday's total solar eclipse...
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Tesla Model S Named Motor Trend's First All-Electric Car Of The Year
Model STeslaThe news prompted Elon Musk to mock Mitt Romney. Who's the loser now? In a striking sign of the future to come, the car-kingmakers at Motor Trend magazine have for the first time named an...
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iPad Mini Review: Tablet Small
iPad Mini With New Yorker Reading the Kid Rock profile in The New Yorker. Text is readable, but only if you've got good healthy eyes. Dan BracagliaIt's an iPad, except it's smaller than iPads usually...
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Vets Want A Global Monitoring System To Track Sickness In Pets Before It...
Furry FriendsWikimedia CommonsMost future human diseases will come from animals, and our pets could be one source of those illnesses. The next pandemics will come from animals, in all likelihood, as...
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Watch A French Researcher Control A Robot With His Brain
Mind-Controlling A Robotvia DigInfo TVAn electrode cap and computer program can translate brain signals into commands for a humanoid robot. Researchers in Japan are using a brain-machine interface to...
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Announcing The 25th Annual Best Of What's New Awards
Liquipel, a gadget waterproofing service, is one of 12 grand award winnersSam Kaplan100 innovations of the year Since we inaugurated these awards a quarter of a century ago, the pace of innovation has...
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FYI: What's The Darkest Material On Earth?
His Darkest MaterialCourtesy Shawn-Yu LinThis material absorbs 99.970 percent of light, making it an ideal coating for solar panels. The idea of dark materials might sound familiar to you if you read...
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The Smarter, Safer, Stronger, Far-Out Materials Of The Future
Bat-Wing PlanesGuy StauberSelf-repairing computers! Electronic skin! Bat-wing planes! A look at the amazing stuff that's changing the world. Materials science has been at the root of material progress,...
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How Abraham Lincoln Developed Modern War Technology
God Of WarPopSci archivesWith the release of a new feature film about the nation's 16th president, we revisit a 1957 PopSci article on Lincoln's heroic efforts to modernize the science of war. In...
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Still Hate Apple Maps? Nokia Is Here To Help
Nokia Maps on Nokia Lumia 920Screenshot by Dan NosowitzApple Maps has, as promised, come a long way since its disastrous beta days, but it's still not great, lacking public transit directions, bike...
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The App Store Is Full Of Bogus Health Apps
iPhone 4John MahoneyThe App Store is filled with health apps and most of them are garbage. At least, that seems to be the overarching sentiment running throughout the Washington Post's extensive...
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BigPic: The Science Of Lubricated Hamsters
Lubricated Rodentsvia Thanks, TextbooksWe could solve this with math, but it's more fun if we have an actual hamster, some lube, and an inclined block. Excellent Tumblr Thanks, Textbooks found this...
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