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Scientists Use A Virus To Reconstruct The Heart's Own Pacemaker
Heart Cells Become Pacemaker CellsWenbin LiangDoctors used a virus to give guinea pigs a gene that re-started their hearts rhythm section. A slight genetic tweak can restart the heart's own innate...
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Why NASA's Moon Twins Are Crashing At The Lunar North Pole Later Today
Items On Earth's Moon This graphic highlights locations on the moon NASA considers "lunar heritage sites," and the path NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft will take to avoid...
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North Korea's Satellite Is Still Tumbling And Likely Completely Dead
North Korea: Rocket Is Good, Satellite Not So MuchMore bad news for North Korea on the first anniversary of dearly departed leader Kim Jong-il's death: the satellite it launched into orbit last week is...
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8 Gifts For The Tech-Minded Cook
The Modernist Cuisine KitchenPaul AdamsGifts that ensure you will be invited over for an elaborate dinner Do you have a friend whose kitchen aspires to be a laboratory, who weighs every ingredient to...
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Fitness Trackers Make Terrible Gifts
Fitbit Is Sad I've been using the more expensive Fitbit One, so this Fitbit Ultra is sad. Dan NosowitzUnless the person you're shopping for has obsessive tendencies, fitness trackers won't help him or...
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Asterank 3D: A Visual Guide To Getting Rich In Space
Asterank3DInfostheticsThose big chunks of bare rock hurtling around the asteroid belt? They might be worth something. An interactive roadmap shows how to cash in. Imagine it: trillions of dollars worth...
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IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five...
Computers With A Sense Of Taste Will Help Us Eat SmarterIBMThe computing giant's annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and...
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Cancer Rates Around The World [Infographic]
Global patterns reveal the myth of a "disease of affluence" Cancer is often considered a "disease of affluence"--a malady that mostly afflicts people in the world's wealthiest countries, often as a...
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NASA's Twin Moon Probes Crash Successfully Into Moon!
Ebb and FlowNASA/JPLAfter 350 days in orbit, Ebb and Flow have landed on the lunar surface After 350 days in lunar orbit, the twin probes Ebb and Flow ended their mission today with a carefully planned...
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Our Solar System Formed From The Cumulative Ashes Of Countless Stars, Not One...
Infant Stars Baby stars glow reddish-pink in this infrared image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Our sun may have looked like one of these baby stars...
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Revisiting Britain's Biggest Hoax: Who Faked The Bones Of The Piltdown Man?
The "Piltdown Man" painting by John Cooke, 1915Wikimedia CommonsOne hundred years ago today, scientists hailed the discovery of our earliest ancestor. The bones turned out to be a fraud. But who...
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Stem Cell Surgery Led To Bones Growing In Patient's Eye
Stem CellsWikimedia CommonsStem cell surgery, in which stem cells from a patient's body are transplanted into some other part of the body, is gaining in popularity. One patient in Los Angeles found out...
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Now Live: The January 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, explains why he's excited for 2013. I believe 2013 will be a grand year. Big things are coming. First of all, astronomers expect a cloud of gas roughly...
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The Helmet That Can Save Football
Helmet WarsTravis RathboneAthletes in the U.S. suffer 3.8 million sports-related concussions each year. While helmet makers dither with small improvements, Swedish scientists have built something that...
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Why Are Architects Deploying Drones?
Marcio KoganPhoto By Fernando GuerraUh, beats a ladder? Drones have been taking on more creative jobs lately. (Artsy skateboarding photographer? Check. Local news reporter? Check.) So it was just a...
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A History Of Our 'Best Of What's New' Special In An Interactive Graphic
The times have changed. Take a tour of PopSci's favorite inventions from years past. Graphic by Pitch Interactive
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Ping Pong Ball-Sized Robots Can Swarm Together To Form A Smart Liquid
Swarming Droplet Robots Teams of ping pong ball-sized robots can work together to perform tasks, like containing an oil spill or building a space station. University of ColoradoIndividual "droplets"...
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How To Work Off Your Holiday Dinner [Infographic]
Just how many hours of Wii Fit Bowling does it take to burn one (conservatively portioned) meal? Today's infographic is actually called, "How to work off your Christmas dinner," but, as we all know,...
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Bacteria May Have Been Responsible For World's Biggest Extinction Event
Crinoid Fossil Filter-feeders like this marine animal were significantly less abundant after the Permian-Triassic extinction. A new theory says bacterial species might have produced huge amounts of...
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A Spider Builds Fake Spiders To Psych Out Predators
A Fake Spider Built By A Real OnePhil TorresIt might be a completely new species--a very tricky new species. Don't be fooled: this isn't a real spider. It's a fabrication! A lie! It's a decoy spider...
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