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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Inquisitive Gent?
Mystery Animal: January 4, 2013via TumblrGuess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. Update: We...
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21 Emotions For Which There Are No English Words [Infographic]
That sort of painful, sort of bittersweet, sort of wistful feeling you get looking out the window or driving at night or listening to a far-off train whistle? There's a word for that in Japanese. Few...
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Mathematical Snow Art And Other Amazing Photos From This Week
Snow Fractals Simon Beck tramps through the snow at Les Arcs ski resort in France, slowly making these beautiful snowflakes. They're so complex, he regularly models them on computers before attempting...
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Humanoid Robots Play Motorhead's Ace of Spades
It's Friday, so let's indulge in some completely nerdulent head-banging. I love robots. I love Motorhead. And so it stands to reason that I would love robots playing Motorhead. But I haven't actually...
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This Week In The Future: Panda Versus Robot
This Week In The Future, December 31-January 1, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, a robot still won't be able to eat like a panda. Want to win this competitive Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's...
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2013 Prediction: Asia Takes Two Routes To Space
Chang'e-2 China is going deep. via WikimediaChina and India have different ambitions in space, but missions from both countries will help us better understand the cosmos. Science and technology have...
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Do Natural Disasters Breed Health Epidemics?
Cholera The cholera bacterial strain that killed thousands of Haitians after the 2010 earthquake was likely introduced by UN peacekeepers. HarvardA deadly outbreak of cholera followed the 7.0...
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Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine Conventional Calculating
Bicycle ClockGregory de GouveiaNew ways to keep time, count bees, and spot energy leaks in your home ANALOG BIKE CLOCKArtist and cycling enthusiast Gregory de Gouveia, based in Chico, California, has...
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NASA Puts Space Shuttle Launch Facilities Up For Sale. Make An Offer!
Launch Pad 39A, EmptyNASAThe space agency wants new tenants or owners for its now-obsolete shuttle equipment. Click to launch the photo galleryThe space shuttles are all nestled in their retirement...
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CES 2013: Nvidia Announces Ludicrous Portable Gaming System
Nvidia's Project ShieldNvidia"Project Shield" tests the limits of what an Android gaming device would be. But is it just a dream gadget? Nvidia isn't a company everyone necessarily knows; they've long...
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Researchers Create The First Earth-Based Laser Built From A Cloud Of Gas
Creating Lasers From Clouds Of Gas Out in the cosmos, planetary and stellar atmospheres occasionally generate natural lasers from light bouncing around within clouds of gas. Now, physicists have...
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Today On Mars: Curiosity Visits The Snake River
Snake River, Gale Crater, Mars Just below and left of center is the so-called "Snake River" rock feature, which Curiosity is pausing to examine before moving on to rock-smashing elsewhere in...
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Billions And Billions: Our Galaxy Has At Least 100 Billion Planets, Of Which...
Heart Of The Milky Way This image was taken from Cerro Paranal in Chile and shows the region spanning the sky from the constellation of Sagittarius to Scorpius. The dark lane in the Milky Way arm hosts...
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CES 2013: Lexus Unveils Autonomous 'Safety Research' Car
Lexus integrated safety Suzanne LaBarre Lexus's Mark Templin: "Our goal is to eliminate future traffic fatalities and injuries." At CES today, Lexus showcased an "Advanced Active Safety Research...
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Hack Yourself An Emergency DIY Car Charger
DIY Car ChargerThe Big Book Of HacksOn the lam without your car charger? Splice some wires and be on your way. MATERIALS USB cable for your device Any 5-volt car cigarette lighter adapter Knife...
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CES 2013: Fitbit's New Flex Wristband Never Leaves Your Person
Fitbit FlexFitbitFitbit's new Flex is a wristband-style tracker, poised to compete with the Nike Fuelband and Jawbone Up. We haven't been too thrilled with Fitbit's offerings in the past--not that...
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Video: This Fish Climbs Up Waterfalls By Gripping With Its Mouth
How to scale a slippery 300-ft rock wall in the middle of a waterfall One genus of goby fish has developed a radical adaptation to life in Hawaii's rough-and-tumble streams: it uses its mouth to climb...
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Make A Zoetrope Out Of A Turntable
Turntable ZoetropeThe Big Book Of HacksLegos come to life with this classic animation trick. The world saw its first modern zoetrope in 1833, and since its invention the device has paved the way to...
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Official Australian Weather Map Gets New Colors To Depict Extreme Heat
Hot Hot HeatAustralian Bureau of MeteorologyRecord-breaking temperatures require a meteorological redesign. It's going to be a rough week in Australia, where the weather service had to add new colors...
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Ralph Steadman Depicts Over 100 Extinct Boids
Extinct Boids CoverBloomsbury.comSteadman's new book revisits vanished (and imagined) species, in true psychedelic fashion. If you've read Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, or...
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