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Food Coloring Goes Under The Microscope In This Collection Of Stunning...
Tartrazine Tartrazine goes by many names, including Acid Yellow 23, E102, and Yellow 5. It also makes for a very pretty crystalline structure when magnified a few hundred times. Linden...
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Electrical Current Can Unlock The Seriously Good Drugs In Your Brain
Transcranial Direct Current StimulationJanneM via FlickrOr, how to get high on electrodes. Trying to get high but don't want to go through the hassle of conducting monetary transactions with some...
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Say Hello To Mobile Ubuntu, Coming To An Android Phone Near You
Ubuntu for MobileCanonicalA brand-new operating system for your previously-Android device! It's not every day that we see a new mobile OS, even if it's not entirely new. Canonical, makers of Ubuntu,...
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Why Everything You Read About Your Health Is Wrong
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New Ground-Based Indoor Positioning Tech Is Accurate Down To Just A Few Inches
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Sad Science Fiction Plot Becomes Reality: Space Radiation Could Cause...
Planet of the ApesWikipediaMice exposed to radiation were more likely to fail memory tests and develop brain plaques associated with Alzheimer's. So much great science fiction takes place when Earth is...
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Meet San Francisco's Only Resident River Otter
Sutro SamSean Havey, SF ChronicleA young river otter has been christened Sutro Sam after he moved into the Sutro Baths, an abandoned ruin of a 19th-century spa complex on San Francisco's Pacific coast,...
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For The First Time, Astronomers See Giant Planets Helping Their Star Grow
Planets Helping Stars Grow This artist's impression shows the disc of gas and cosmic dust around the young star HD 142527. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)...
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Important Science Of The Season: Hot Chocolate Tastes Better In An Orange Cup
Orange You Glad It's Time For Hot Chocolate?The color of tableware influences the way we perceive our food. A creamsicle-colored set of mugs will make your hot chocolate taste and smell sweeter than it...
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Early Earth Should Have Been A Snowball, But Wasn't
Snowball EarthNeethisA new theory suggests that unusual greenhouse gases might have kept the planet warm back before the sun was bright enough to do the job. When our sun first got going, some 4.5...
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2013 Prediction: Climate Scientists Say It Again
Climate Scientists Say It AgainJesse LenzTwo statements on climate change will set the record straight--as long as nuanced differences from past reports aren't exaggerated. Science and technology have...
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Scientists Send A Cloud Of Atoms Plunging Below Absolute Zero
Going Negative Atoms distributed in a thermal system. LMU/MPQ MunichAbsolute zero is theoretically the lowest possible temperature, but quantum researchers beg to differ. Absolute zero--that's zero...
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The Ultimate DIY, All-In-One Beer-Brewing Machine
The ultimate DIY, beer-brewing machine The Big Book Of HacksBehold this deluxe homemade microbrewery: an elaborate device that boils, ferments, chills, and pours home-crafted ale. What if there were a...
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Crazy Weight-Loss Schemes Through The Ages
"Slimmer Shake," June 1969Popular Science archivesDid you resolve to get thin this year? Here are six absurd weight-loss programs of yore, plus one incredibly mean weight-gain ad from 1939. 2013 is...
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On DARPA's 2013 Wish List: Extreme Diving, Portable Brain Reading, And...
U.S. Navy Diver DARPA wants a new dive suit that automatically monitors the diver's physiology and adjusts his or her air mixture accordingly. U.S. NavyThe Pentagon's mad scientists want to bring brain...
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UK Police Launch Website Asking Public To Identify Over 1,000 Found Bodies
Missing PersonsUK PoliceOver 350 of the individuals that have gone missing in the UK over the last few years have not been found, according to a UK Missing Persons list. Meanwhile, the nation's police...
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Google Has A Weird And Hilarious Voice-Synthesis Bug
Android Issue PageGoogle"He now praises the iPad." We love Google Now, but we couldn't help but get a laugh out of this glitch reported for Android: ask your phone, "What is a giraffe?" and it'll...
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Skip Out On The Elks Lodge, Die In A Traffic Accident
Highway 401 Traffic In CanadaBenson Kua/Wikimedia CommonsWell, not exactly. But new research suggests that communities with low "social capital" have 50 percent more traffic fatalities. Do you live...
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What To Expect At CES 2013
CES 2013 LogoCEAThe year's biggest gadget expo is next week in Las Vegas. Here's what we're expecting (and hoping) to see. The Consumer Electronics Show, the year's largest gadget expo, gets underway...
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Politics Is Most Important Factor For Climate Future, Study Finds
Obama Delivers Health Care SpeechWikimedia CommonsMaybe we can all just agree on this one? An analysis in Nature has confirmed what we already knew: politicians need to hurry up if we're going to stop...
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