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Study Says Women Can Spot Cheaters At A Glance
Can Women Really 'See' Cheating?© Mirco Vacca/Dreamstime.comOr, at least, the 34 women in the study showed "small-moderate" correlations with guessing right when they were asked. (And men can't tell,...
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Readers! Help Astronomers Study The Galaxy That's Going To Collide With Ours
Andromeda GalaxyNASAWe're doomed to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy one day, but we can get to know it first through a crowdsourced online game. Citizen science at work. Sometimes, scientists need a...
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Today On Mars: Where Curiosity's Cruise Stage Crashed Down
Scars On MarsCourtesy JPLCameras on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have taken pictures of the impact sites. When the Mars Rover Curiosity left Earth, it was carrying a cruise stage, whose parts...
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Remembering Dave Brubeck, The Mathematical Pianist (1920-2012)
Dave BrubeckWikimedia CommonsDave Brubeck, the legendary pianist and composer, died today. Here we remember his genius. I saw Dave Brubeck play, once. That's not that unusual; he performed pretty much...
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Love Of Spicy Food Is Built Into Your Personality
Chili Peppersvia FlickrLove of spicy food isn't just desensitization, or cultural upbringing--it also has ties to who you are. When I was a kid, I'd watch in awe as my dad ate dinner. It wasn't just...
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You Built What?!: A Remote-Controlled Robo-Arm
Smart ArmMike BasherA 16-year-old's homemade wireless robotic limb. Two summers ago, Easton LaChappelle thought it would be fun to build a robotic arm controlled wirelessly using a glove. LaChappelle,...
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How Scientists Turn The Ocean Into A Controlled Laboratory
Reef In A BoxCopyright David Kline 2010Manipulating the acidity where a reef lives gives us a window into the effects of climate change. When marine biologist David Kline, of Australia's University of...
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Samsung's Galaxy Camera Is The Camera Of The Future [Review]
Samsung Galaxy CameraDan NosowitzThe Galaxy Camera runs a full version of Android on its full touchscreen, along with a 4G LTE connection. This is how cameras will work in the future--but how about the...
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Beautiful 'Black Marble' Views Show Earth At Night Like Never Before
USA At NightNASANASA's Suomi NPP satellite stitched together images taken on cloudless nights during 312 orbits. Aliens looking at our planet from a close distance could detect Earth's life in lots of...
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Video: A Black Hawk Helicopter Goes Autonomous
Autonomous Black HawkThe rotorcraft of the future will be robotic, and the Army is already working on the technology via an autonomous UH-60 Black Hawk demonstrator. Our brand new drones aren't the...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Little Fellow?
Mystery Animal Contest: Dec. 6, 2012Wikimedia CommonsGuess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously....
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Newly Found Baby Star's Solar System Is Youngest Ever Seen
Baby Planet Nursery In this artist's conception of a newly found infant solar system, a young star pulls material from its surroundings into a rotating disk (right) and generates outflowing jets of...
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Startup CyPhy Shows Off New Drone That Can Slip Through Windows
The startup launched by an iRobot co-founder is focused on making robots simple again. Earlier this week news crossed our radar that iRobot co-founder Helen Greiner's new robotics startup was coming...
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Google Funds Secret Tech For Hunting Down Poachers
Black Rhino A black rhinoceros in Tanzania. Rhinos are killed at an average rate of one per day because of the belief that their horns cure diseases. The World Wildlife Fund says the leading rhino...
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How To Floss And Marry Your Way To Immortality [Infographic]
If only correlation were causation! Still, there's some fun info here. So we'll say this up front: a lot of the facts in this infographic, while true, aren't necessarily going to add years to your...
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Space-Tourism Company Is Selling Trips To The Moon For $750 Million Each
Destination: the MoonBob Familiar via WikimediaSo start saving now. On the heels of SpaceX's vision of a human colony on Mars, here's another idea for people who think of outer space the way the rest...
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7 Gifts For The Internet Geek In Your Life
A Cat, Personified A tiny (and somewhat absurd) snapshot of the Internet geek macrocosm. Courtesy 9GagA set of trinkets and devices for those who are constantly plugged into the world wide web The...
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Round Two: What Are The Most Important Inventions Of The Last 25 Years?
Vote on the latest matchups in our Best of What's New bracket! Welcome to the second round of our five-round bout.There was no shortage of impassioned debate when we gathered to anoint the top 25...
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Megapixels: A Dew-Covered Damselfly
Eye DropsOndrej Pakan/ZUMA Press/NewscomUp close, the miniature "air tanks" that help the bugs stay underwater In the cool of the early morning, insects like this dew-covered blue damselfly move...
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Does Edible Deodorant Work?
Rose By Any Other NameGeorges Seguin/WikipediaOne intrepid Popular Science editor eschews antiperspirant for a week to see if Deo candy really works. The makers of Deo Perfume Candy claim that if you...
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