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A Seasonal Sour From A Scientific Bartender
A Flavor Map of the Somerset Sour This is a highly scientific map of the aromatic journey you experience as you drink a Somerset Sour, from sweet blue sugar to green hay. See it bigger!from Drinks by...
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7 Amazing Ways Nanotechnology Is Changing The World
Gold NanoparticlesWellcome ImagesTiny nanoparticles are a huge part of our lives, for better or for worse. "Everything, when miniaturized to the sub-100-nanometer scale, has new properties, regardless...
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Futuristic Photo Booth 3-D Prints Your Portrait
Three Sizes The resulting portraits come in three sizes: 10 centimeters, 15 centimeters, and 20 centimeters. They go for 21,000 yen ($262 USD), 32,000 yen ($400 USD), and 42,000 yen ($524 USD),...
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Israel Declares War On Hamas Via Twitter, Hamas Responds Via Twitter, Welcome...
IDF Strike on Twittervia TwitterA Twitter war that's about an actual war. In real time. Israel launched an offensive this morning on "terror sites and operatives in the Gaza strip, chief among them...
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Lonely Orphaned Planet Spotted Wandering Aimlessly Through Interstellar Space
Lonely Planet CFBDSIR2149 Artist's rendering, of course. ESO/L. Calçada/P. Delorme/Nick Risinger /R. Saito/VVV ConsortiumIt has lost its parent star. It's lonely way out there in interplanetary space,...
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MIT-Made Metamaterial Focuses Radio Waves, Could Yield Up-Close Views Of...
MIT Metamaterial LensMITThe lab-built material focuses radio waves better than anything that occurs in nature. When nature's materials can't do the job scientists want done, it's time to head into the...
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The Top 25 Innovations of the Last 25 Years
Burj Khalifa One of Popular Science's greatest innovations of the past 25 years Of the 2,500 Best of What's New winners we've anointed since 1988, these are the innovations that have made the greatest...
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New E-Textbooks Will Tattle To Professors About Students' Reading Habits
Kindle PaperwhiteDan BracagliaCourseSmart plans to track how students read. It'll even determine their "engagement" in reading. Boy we're glad we aren't in school any more. Digital textbooks seem like...
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The Science Behind 4 Of The Greatest Polymers Of All Time
Military troops in Nomex gear during the Yellowstone fires of 1988 Jim Peaco via Wikimedia Commons Just because something is old doesn't mean it isn't still awesome! Here at PopSci, we usually focus on...
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The Best Review of Halo 4
Halo 4Bungie/343"The plot is hysterical in both senses of the word, at the same time. Things are always happening, and there is always a blast door that must be shut on penalty of galactic holocaust,...
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Today In Wallpapers: A Climate Model Spits Out A Beautiful Image Of Global...
Global Aerosols, A PortraitWilliam Putman, NASA/GoddardAnd to think some people call climate science worthless. The climate is soon coming to destroy you, but in the meantime you can enjoy this...
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Kepler's Hunt For Planets Outside Our Solar System: The Greatest Hits
Kepler-35Lynette Cook via NASAThese findings have changed the way we see our solar system. This week NASA announced its planet-hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, just completed its primary mission....
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The Best Photography Gear Of The Year
Pop Awards 2012Dan BracagliaIt's that time of the year again! What time? Oh, it's the time to drop thousands of dollars on the best photography gear on the planet. It's a fun time, a festive time, a...
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BeerSci: What's The Connection Between Hops And Marijuana?
HopsDr. Hagen Graebner; WikipediaBecause they sure look and smell alike. "Are hops and marijuana related?" I've fielded that question many times, usually after someone has sampled an especially...
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U.S. Navy To Retire Mine-Sweeping Dolphins And Use Robots Instead
Sea Lab Dolphin TrainingCourtesy U.S. Navy Marine Mammal ProgramThe Knifefish, an unmanned underwater vehicle, should be hunting for mines by 2017. Soon, dolphins and sea lions won't be hunting mines...
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Daily Infographic: 9,993 Bird Species On One Tree (Now Zoomable!)
A look at the first complete map of one of nature's most diverse classes of life A few weeks ago, we brought you a story about the first-ever family tree of every living bird on Earth. In addition to...
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Utah Cops May Be Required To Wear Camera Glasses
TASER AXON FlexTASERWhen every police-citizen interaction is recorded, maybe we'll be nicer to each other. Memo to Salt Lake City Police Department: Lifeblogging was never cool. Neither, come to think...
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FYI: What Material Is Most Afraid Of Water?
Macroscopic DropletsCourtesy Kripa Varanasi"Water can slide off like ketchup." Researchers have been trying to create ultra-hydrophobic materials--materials that repel water--because condensation of...
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Nanotube Yarn Infused With Wax Makes Incredibly Strong Artificial Muscles
Nano Muscle Fibers These scanning electron microscope images show a carbon nanotube yarn that has incredible tensile strength. The upper image shows a highly coiled, wax-filled carbon nanotube yarn...
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Reimagining Buildings Of The Past With The Materials Of The Future
'Hacking' the FBI's headquarters Courtesy GenslerPopSci thought experiment: If we were to make a famous building today, what would we do differently? Two architects and a civil engineer weigh in. Part...
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