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Whoever Kills The Most Burmese Pythons In Florida Wins A Cash Prize
Burmese PythonWikimedia CommonsA mass animal-hunting contest that actually, well, makes sense. This weekend, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission kicked off the 2013 Python Challenge in Davie,...
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Detroit Auto Show 2013: The Sexiest Corvette We've Seen In Way Too Long
The 2014 Chevrolet CorvetteChelsea SextonHellooooooooo! If you didn't know better, you might think there were only one car at the Detroit Auto Show this year, because the spanking-new Chevrolet...
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Equal Rights For Women Everywhere Could Save Civilization
Humanely lowering birth rates via societal female empowerment is the key to preventing a total collapse, Stanford population biologists claim. Population biologists Paul R. and Anne Ehrlich have been...
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DARPA Wants "Upward Falling" Robots That Can Hide On The Seafloor For Years,...
Underwater RobotsFelipe Skroski via WikimediaThe Navy's 'Upward Falling Payloads' could hide in the ocean depths until needed, then launch to quickly create a distributed presence across a maritime...
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Particle Accelerator Reveals That First Land Animals Walked Like Seals
Ichthyostega A semi-transparent flesh reconstruction of the early tetrapod Ichthyostega shows the underlying skeleton. Julia MolnarThe backbone of life was organized just the opposite of what everyone...
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Watch A Virus Infect An E. Coli Cell
Observing a virus infecting a cell for the first time has changed the way we understand the process. Ten years ago, Ian Molineux hypothesized that the virus T7, a bacteriophage capable of infecting...
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Now Live: The February 2013 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
Jacob Ward, editor-in-chief of Popular Science, has some questions about humanoid rescue robots. In 2010, I had the pleasure of writing our cover story about CHARLI-L, the first bipedal, self-contained...
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Detroit Auto Show 2013: The Followup To the Chevy Volt Is A Cadillac
Cadillac ELRChelsea SextonThe 2014 Cadillac ELR isn't your typical Caddy--it's an all-electric, supersleek coupe. At long, long last, General Motors has revealed the follow-up vehicle to the plug-in...
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Trial Run Mission Will Make Sure Asteroid Deflection Method Really Works
AIDA Mission Concept The US-European Asteroid Impact and Deflection mission, or AIDA, would send two small spacecraft to intercept a binary asteroid. The first Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)...
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Build Your Own DIY Virtual Reality Glasses
DIY Virtual Reality GlassesThe Big Book Of HacksGo anywhere Google Street View goes. MATERIALS Safety goggles Large piece of cardboard Pencil Craft knife Tape SmartphoneSTEP 1 Lay the safety goggles on...
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Fake Snow Made From Sewage Comes Out Yellow
Yellow SnowKatie Nelson and Rudy PrestonAn Arizona ski resort was the first to make snow from sewage "effluent," but the color was just a little off. Oops! There's been a longstanding battle in...
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Facebook's New "Graph Search" Is The Google Of People
Facebook Graph SearchFacebookYes, that sounds confusing. But really, it's just a new way to search for people or information about people, using Facebook's massive stock of data. Facebook held a big...
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Russia Will Launch Its First Moon Mission Since The 1970s
Moon MissionWikimedia Commons The unmanned probe will take off in 2015 from Russia's brand new launch site. Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency, will launch an unmanned mission to the moon in...
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Watch These Liquid Metal 'Marbles' Go Splat And Un-Splat
Safe from impact, safe from extreme temperatures, and just plain fun to watch Here is the non-scientific, fantasy explanation of what's going on in this video: Scientists have discovered a way to breed...
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Curiosity Rover Gets Ready To Drill Into Mars For The First Time
Curiosity's First Drilling TargetNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSSNobody has ever tried anything like this on Mars before. A flat rock with pale, veiny fissures could be the first thing the Mars rover Curiosity...
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This Is What Competing Sperm Looks Like
Small Sperm Video of competing sperm within the reproductive system of the female fruit fly won second prize in this year's Nikon Small World in Motion contest. Stefan Lüpold via Nikon Small World in...
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Detroit Auto Show 2013: Nissan Leaf Is Now Cheaper, Made In The U.S.
Ghosn Announces LEAFChelsea SextonNissan drops the MSRP on the 2013 Leaf by 18 percent. Not that he's known for anything else, but Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn once again aggressively underscored his...
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DNA Test Finds Horse Meat In UK Hamburgers
Noble Steedvia Twitter"There is no clear explanation at this time for the presence of horse DNA." The Irish version of the FDA, called the FSAI, has found distinctly non-beef animal protein in ground...
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How Particle Physics Can Improve Your Netflix Recommendations
Standard ModelFermilabUnlimited products are like bosons and restaurant reservations are like fermions. From OpenTable to Amazon to your Netflix queue, algorithms sift through what we seem to like and...
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Enormous Online Library Catalogues 150,000 Animal Sounds
FlamingosWikimedia CommonsAnd here's a few fun ones in advance. The Cornell Lab of Ornithology just released an online archive filled with thousands of animal noises. The archive doesn't have...
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