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Final Round: What Is The Most Important Invention Of The Last 25 Years?
Vote on the final matchup in our Best of What's New bracket! Graphic by Katie PeekWelcome to the final round of our bout!There was no shortage of impassioned debate when we gathered to anoint the top...
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Sculptures Reimagine Pasta And Bamboo As Bacteria And DNA
Blue BacteriumSinead FoleyArtist Sinead Foley remakes kitchen goods, modeling them on the microscopic. Click to enter the galleryWe only know a few things about these sculptural interpretations of the...
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How Many Model Rockets Would You Need To Get To Space? [Infographic]
XKCD Explains What We've All Been Wondering About Model RocketsA lot of them! And that's just if you know how to stack them for optimal use. Today, the always-great web-comic XKCD gets Wile E. Coyote...
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BeerSci: 6 Gift Ideas For Aspiring Homebrewers
Beersci!Todd DetweilerBeerSci's complete guide to the brew kits, books, and oak barrels needed to make tasty beer at home As a homebrewer, I field many questions from curious beer fans on how to start...
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Adorable Beagle Diagnoses Deadly Infections By Sniffing You
Cliff The Dogvia BMJCliff the beagle can sniff out a dangerous bacterium just by smelling patients--no stool sample or long lab analysis necessary. In hospitals, a nasty little bacterium called...
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Who Were The First Organisms To Live On Land?
Life in the Ediacaran Sea?Ryan SommaMost scientists give the credit to a group of mossy swamp-dwellers that originated underwater, but new evidence points to a mysterious life-form that lived--and...
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A Geographic Guide To American Mass Shootings
Mass Shootings MapMother Jones and GoogleDepressingly, Mother Jones already created a map of mass shootings in America the last time we had one, so it was all ready to go when news of this morning's...
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How Roald Amundsen Won The Race To The Bottom Of The World
Roald AmundsenWikimedia CommonsOn this day in 1911, Roald Amundsen became the first explorer to reach the South Pole. From the Popular Science archives, this is the story of "the last of the vikings."...
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Watch: Asteroid Toutatis Twirling Through Space During Earth Flyby
NASA scientists use radar to make a video of a rock four million miles away The three-mile-long chunk of space rock that swung past Earth early this week never got closer than a distance of about four...
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A Nest Made For People And Other Amazing Photos Of The Week
A Nest For Humans Studio 1984 designed this human "nest" for a competition where the challenge was to create a dwelling made from natural components. Various types of wood were used, but the most...
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How Do Rampage Killings Affect Our Opinions On Gun Control?
P14-45 HandgunWikimedia CommonsDuring his tearful address to the nation today, President Obama said we need to take "meaningful action to prevent tragedies" like the one that left 20 children and 7...
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This Week In The Future: Fish On Land, Wolves In The Sky
This Week In The Future, December 10-14, 2012BaarbarianIn the future, the great Pixel Wolves Of The Sky will look down below on the mutated fish. The wolves will be hungry but also weirded out. Want to...
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What The Research Says About "Rampage Violence"
Studies of "rampage violence" have only been around for about a decade, but researchers are still working hard to understand and prevent it. Here's the current state of the field. It's only been about...
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To Pinpoint Audio Evidence, UK Police Record 7 Years Of Background Noise
Audio RecordingForensic Informatics Biometric RepositoryThe electrical hum in the background of a call can identify precisely when it happened. Metropolitan police in London have been recording the hum...
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Video: Arctic Fox Cubs Practice Their Pounces
Learning skills that will be invaluable in later foxhood The BBC's new television show "Snow Babies" (premiering next week) explores the lives of baby animals in cold places -- penguins, reindeer,...
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And The Winner Is...
Your choice for the most important invention of the last 25 years Graphic by Katie PeekOur five-round bracket is done, and the people have spoken. The most important invention of the last 25 years? The...
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Google Hires Ray Kurzweil To Head Its Engineering Lab
Kurzweil: Now With GoogleEd Schipul via WikimediaThe futurist and inventor famous for his predictions on the technological singularity will be Google's new chief of turning the theoretical future into...
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5 Petitions For Things Less Important To National Prosperity Than A Death Star
Death StarYouTubeSo much is less important, obviously. But these things especially. The people have spoken. A White House petition to begin construction of a Death Star by 2016 has reached the...
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Paralyzed Woman Can Eat A Chocolate Bar, With Graceful Mind-Controlled...
The World's Most Dexterous Mind-Controlled Prosthetic ArmUniversity of Pittsburgh Medical CenterUniversity of Pittsburgh researchers have allowed a paralyzed woman to pick up and reorient objects--and...
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