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Smartphone-Controlled Japanese Toilet Keeps A Personal Poop Diary
Satis Smartphone Toiletvia LixilThe day will come, and come soon, when we will control our entire domestic lives with a phone. We will turn the lights on and off, we will change the temperature to the...
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Peter Thiel's Latest Pet Project: Tornado-Powered Energy
Tornado PowerAtmospheric Vortex EngineThiel's Breakout Labs has awarded an energy firm $300,000 to continue its research harnessing tornadoes for cheap, clean energy. Billionaire Peter Thiel is already...
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Scan Of Mummy Reveals Pharaoh Died With His Throat Slit
The Mummy of Rameses IIIHawass et al./British Medical JournalCT scans show how Rameses III--the last "great" king of Egypt--went to his tomb. The end of the Egyptian pharaoh Rameses III's reign was...
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Why Wild Animals Are Moving Into Cities, And What To Do About It
Wild Among UsEverett CollectionGlobal warming and environmental destruction are driving coyotes, bears and mountain lions out of their habitats, but that's only part of the reason why so many animals...
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Unproven Stem-Cell Cosmetic Treatments Can Grow Bones In Your Eyes
OsteocyteVisual HistologyNew cosmetic creams and therapies that make use of stem cells carry bizarre, gruesome risks. A woman in Los Angeles went to her doctor with pain and clicking in her eyelid,...
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Would Arming Teachers And Students Really Have Prevented A Tragedy?
Could More Guns Solve The Problem?Svetlana67 | Dreamstime.comPolicy that would make it easier to carry concealed weapons into schools could have meant "the difference between life and death for many...
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BigPic: A Rare And Spectacular View Of Saturn
Saturn: A Splendor Seldom SeenClick here to see this amazing picture even larger!NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteNASA's Cassini spacecraft captures a dark planet, wreathed in the sunlit glow of...
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Death By Waterslide For Carnivorous Plant's Prey [Video]
The specialized hairs on Heliamphora nutans help turn the funnel-shaped pitcher plant into a slippery trap. When I think about plants, "hairy" is not the first word that comes to mind. But it turns out...
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Which Wine Should You Get Drunk On This Holiday? [Infographic]
To save you from your family--er, to share with your family. It's the holidays! Which means spending time with family. Which means drinking, probably. But what's the best way to go about it? That's...
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The Eagle-Snatching-Baby Video Is Insane, But It's Also Fake
Eagle Video Artifact?via MotherboardThat video of a supposed golden eagle snatching a toddler in a Montreal park? Yeah, that's fake. Update: Confirmed.From Motherboard: I knew we were all in for an...
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Nearby Star Tau Ceti Could Have A Habitable Planet
The Planets Of Tau CetiJ. Pinfield for the RoPACS network at the University of Hertfordshire, 2012Though not yet confirmed, data suggests a rocky body is orbiting our stellar neighbor at just the right...
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Africa: A Story of Growth
Infographic article imageAfrica's steady and robust economic growth over the past decades has thrust the continent onto the world stage as a serious player. Local economies staggered in every part of...
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These Massive Extinct Eagles Could Have Carried Off That Toddler's Dad
Haast's Eagle Hunting Moavia Wikimedia CommonsSure, a golden eagle can theoretically snag a baby. But the Haast's eagle hunted 12-foot-tall monster birds. Last night, a video supposedly showing a...
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We Want These "Ultrastretchable" Charging Cables Now, Please
Stretchy WiresCourtesy NCSUNeed just a little more length on your charging cable to reach the outlet? No problem: new wires filled with liquid metal could stretch up to eight times their original...
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Genetically-Engineered Stingray-Skin Sneakers Are A Hoax
Stingray LeatherNextNatureBack in June, news sites began picking up the story of Rayfish Footwear, which claimed it could genetically engineer stingrays to have whatever skin pattern or color you want,...
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BigDog Robot Learns To Obey Voice Commands, Follow, Roll Over
DARPA's menacing military machine gains some new tricks. The Legged Squad Support System, a.k.a. BigDog, which looks more like the offspring of a bull and a spider than a dog, shows off some new skills...
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Watch This Gift-Wrapping Robot Make Elves Obsolete
General Motors reprograms robots to put a toy car in a wrapped box. Unionize, elves, before it's too late! Sure, the elves in this video look happy, but are they secretly worried about job security?...
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Inside China's Secret Arsenal
Dark Sword DroneNick KaloterakisThe Chinese government is rapidly building a bigger, more sophisticated military. Here's what they have, what they want, and what it means for the U.S. In a single...
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Paper Waste Makes World's Grossest-Looking Bricks
The Paper BrickC. Martinez et al., Universidad de JaƩnAnother "green" brick, this time made like sausage We don't want to be unkind, because it's nice that people are working toward a future where we...
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Scientists Engineer Algae To Produce New Targeted Cancer Therapy
Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (green algae)Dartmouth Electron Microscope FacilityNext-generation cancer therapies are notoriously expensive. But maybe not for long. If traditional cancer therapies like...
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