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How To Build An LED Lightsaber [Infographic]
How To Build A LightsaberHerbert PocketA fun DIY project--and no one's hand gets chopped off. This infographic is a step-by-step guide for building a nerd's dream: grab some PVC, spray paint, LEDs, and...
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SPONSORED ARTICLE: HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE
Stanley Holiday Gift Guide It's beginning to look a lot like the holiday season. With this time of year comes the stress of trying to find the right gift for those hard-to-buy-for men in your life....
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How Israel's ‘Iron Dome' Knocks Almost Every Incoming Missile Out Of The Sky
A Mobile Iron Dome Missile Defense BatteryNatanFlayer via WikimediaIt's tough to hit a moving rocket with a moving rocket. Here's how Israel's new domestic missile defense system is doing it with...
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Simulated Brain Ramps Up To Include 100 Trillion Synapses
Neurosynaptic Cores This network of neurosynaptic cores is derived from wiring in the monkey brain. The cores are clustered into regions, also inspired by the brain, and each core is represented by a...
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Watch Paralyzed Dogs Walk Again After Nose Cell Transplants
Paralyzed Dog Elemer, a 9 year old Border Collie, used a cart to walk prior to surgery. He was the lab's second patient. Cambridge Veterinary SchoolScientists in the UK injected dogs with cells grown...
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Great Apes Might Experience Mid-Life Crises Just Like Humans
Ape Ennui Chimpanzees and orangutans experience midlife crises just like humans do, except they can't go out and buy convertibles to cure their middle-age malaise. Wikimedia CommonsA cross-species...
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9 Gift Ideas For The Aspiring Rocket Scientist In Your Life
These Blazers Have NASA-Designed FabricBlake LondonSkip the telescope and go straight for the math-enabled bespoke clothing. The aspiring rocket scientist in your life probably already has a model...
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Human Rights Watch Wants An International Ban On Autonomous Killer Robots
The X-47BClick here to see this amazing image even larger.Douglas SondersThe threat of autonomous killer robots is very real and we have to stop them before it's too late. Such is the theme of many a...
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Gray Matter: How Not To Deep-Fry A Turkey
Deep-frying a turkey can be a delicious Thanksgiving treat-or a deadly conflagration, as our rather dramatic video shows.
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An Annotated Guide To Mining The Seafloor
Digging DeepKevin HandRemotely operated excavators for mining in the abyss Centuries of underwater volcanic activity have blanketed the ocean floor in precious metals. Now, with the aid of the world's...
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Could A Sonic Weapon Make Your Head Explode?
Can sound waves kill? Or just irritate the hell out of you? Wikimedia CommonsInfrasonic sound can have very unusual non-auditory effects on the body. But does it kill? There's an elevator in the Brown...
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FYI: Can You Make An Authentic Twinkie At Home?
Creamy Chemical GoodnessWikimedia CommonsThe Great Twinkie Panic of 2012 seems to be over, but we were worried. Is it possible, in case of need, to craft scientifically authentic Twinkies at home? Last...
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DHS Is Experimenting With A Huge Inflatable Plug To Stop Future Flooding Of...
How It Works: An Inflatable Tunnel PlugMIKA GRÖNDAHL/New York TimesWhen Hurricane Sandy struck New York City a few weeks ago, seven of the 14 under-river subway tunnels flooded as a result of the storm...
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Today's Turkeys Are Genetically Barren Compared To Their Wild Ancestors
Gobble Gobble Turkey This turkey is of the Merriam's subspecies, one of six turkey subspecies. All commercial turkey lines descend from the South Mexican turkey subspecies, which is extinct in the...
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7 Tiny Gifts For The Undersized (But Not Underloved) Person In Your Life
The Tiny Game Boy MicroNintendoSmaller is better, thinks every small person, feverishly. And the gadget world goes back and forth on that; smartphones are getting bigger, but tablets seem to be getting...
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Optical Camouflage Renders The Backseat Of A Car Transparent
Transparent Backseatvia DigInfo NewsThe problem with the backseat--really with the whole rear of the car--is that it's in your way when you're trying to reverse. So researchers at Keio University in...
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What 'Earth-Shaking' Evidence Did The Mars Rover Curiosity Just Find?
Sample Analysis at Mars This subframe image from the left Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows the covers in place over two sample inlet funnels of the rover's Sample Analysis at...
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Injectable Sponges Can Expand Inside The Body To Deliver Drugs
Moldable, Injectable Sponges Left: A fully collapsed square-shaped cryogel rapidly regains its original memorized shape, size, and volume upon hydration. Right: Photos show the placement of a cryogel...
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Scientists Discover An Exoplanet So Massive They're Not Even Sure It's A Planet
Kappa Andromedae System Left: False-color, near-infrared image of Kappa Andromedae system. Right: A signal-to-noise ratio mapped, produced from the image to the left. NAOJKappa And b could be a...
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FYI: How Much Weight Can You Gain From Thanksgiving Dinner?
Preparing To Chow DownSuperstock/Getty ImagesMost of the food weight and water retention disappears in time. Postprandial weight gain is all a matter of timing. In the short term-I mean the very short...
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