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How To Scrub GPS Data From Your Photos; Or, How To Be Smarter Than Vice
Samsung Galaxy CameraDan NosowitzYou know, in case you're trying to conceal your location (or a murder suspect's). John McAfee--anti-virus pioneer, "person of interest" in Belize murder investigation,...
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The Secret Weapons Behind The Japanese Attack On Pearl Harbor
Battleship RowPopSci archivesToday is the anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. To mark the occasion in 1966, Popular Science published a feature on how the Japanese designed such a successful...
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New Microscopy Technique Gets Close Enough To See The Lengths Of Atomic Bonds
Atomic SnapshotCourtesy IBM Research-ZurichA one-atom-wide probe scans a molecule to get the view. For the first time, scientists have used an imaging technique that's so precise that it's possible to...
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AirHarp, The Instrument You Play Without Touching Anything
AirHarpCourtesy YouTubeUsing a Leap Motion device, Adam Somers turned his computer monitor into a harp. It looks like magic, but it's just technology. For a casual weekend hack, developer Adam Somers...
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Why Aren't We Afraid Of A Tsunami Hitting San Francisco?
Watch Out For Tsunami!Wikimedia CommonsWhen a 7.3-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan's eastern coast early Friday morning, we all feared a tsunami. But San Francisco gets earthquakes all the time,...
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A Face Made From Dismembered Dolls And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Doll Parts, ReimaginedFreya Jobbins via Co.DesignPlus: a chandelier made from thousands of acrylic gummy bears, a homemade "wormhole," and more Click to enter the gallery
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Watch This Parrot Drive A Parrot-Sized Robot Car
The benefits of living with an engineer This African gray parrot named Pepper can not fly, since his wings are clipped. But he can drive a little buggy designed by his owner, Andrew Gray, an electrical...
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This Week In The Future: You Don't Understand! It Was A Dinosaur!
This Week In The Future, December 3-7, 2012BaarbarianIn the future, excuses about dinosaurs still won't be plausible at all. Want to win this prehistoric Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's...
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Why The Only Secure Password Is One You Don't Even Know That You Know
Mind Over HackersJesse LenzResearchers have shown how to teach a password subconsciously, then pluck it back out. Hristo Bojinov wants you to forget your password. More precisely, he wants you to never...
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Shapeshifting Metamaterial Could Revolutionize How We Treat Wounds
Organic, Liquid-Like Hydrogel Made Of Chains Of Synthetic DNALuo Lab"When a drug can flow into a cavity then conform to the shape of the cavity and stay there, it offers unprecedented opportunities [in...
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Round Three: 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 third 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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Latest Apple Maps Glitch Strands Motorists In Australian Wilderness
Murray Sunset National Park, Rather Than Milduravia The VergePolice in Victoria are advising motorists not to use the app after rescuing several people, some of whom were stranded in a national park...
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Watch A 10-Story Building Go Up In Two Days
This building is the latest super-quick tower brought to you by prefabrication. Prefabricated structures are getting lots of media attention right now, notably after China's BroadGroup put up a...
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Science Can Now Turn Human Urine Into Brain Cells
Neural progenitors derived from human urine cellsLihui Wang, Guangjin Pan and Duanqing PeiChinese researchers have developed a new technique for isolating kidney cells from urine and turning them into...
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Stop Shooting Wolves, You Maniacs
Juvenile Grey WolfWikimedia CommonsWyoming's anti-scientific laws have allowed the most famous wolf in Yellowstone to be shot. Shooting wolves isn't only senseless--it actively harms the environment....
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Take A Virtual Trip To The Moon With Patrick Moore's Handy Guide
A layman's map of the moonPopular Science archivesThe eccentric, monocle-wearing astronomer died Sunday at the age of 89. Celebrate Moore's contributions to science by checking out his 1957 guidebook...
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Japanese Team Aims For World Record In Human-Powered Styrofoam Plane
Aeroscepsy In Flightvia YouTubeThe team wants to beat the world distance record for a pedal-powered airplane. A team of Japanese motorcycle makers may soon remind the world that another type of...
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BigPic: A Frost-Covered Mountain Range On Pockmarked Mars
Charitum Montes ESA's Mars Express took this high-resolution view of Charitum Montes, seen here in natural color. Centered around 53°S and 334°E, the image has a ground resolution of about 20 meters...
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7 Gifts For The Geeky Kid In Your Life
Kids make the best scientistsDreamstimeThe year's coolest toys for kids who like to build things, break things, and play with bugs Research shows that all kids are basically tiny scientists who learn...
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3-D Painting Visualizes Earthquakes In Real Time
QuakescapeJames BoockPart painting, part sculpture, Quakescape taps realtime seismological data to create a color-coded visualization of the earth's movements beneath Christchurch, New Zealand. Design...
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