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Look At This Musician's Brain In An MRI Scanner [Video]
Inside A Musician's BrainSivu via YouTubeSivu's new music video puts him in an MRI scanner and presses play. It's been an exciting couple days for MRI aficionados. Earlier this week, we got to see what...
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This Week In The Future: Gimme A Beat
This Week In the Future, January 21-25, 2013BaarbarianIn the future, UFO sightings will totally ruin Neanderthal beatboxers' rhythm. Want to win this tasty Baarbarian illustration on a T-shirt? It's...
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Remembering The Brightest Lessons From NASA's Darkest Days
NASA's three worst tragedies all happened this week--46, 27 and 10 years ago. The days between January 27 and February 1 are the most difficult week of the year for NASA. The annual space program...
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Did Penicillin Kickstart The Sexual Revolution?
Syphilis Can Be Cured During World War II, public health propaganda worked to convince people to treat their syphilis. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration via Wikimedia CommonsA new study...
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Wikipedia Is Getting Worse As It Gets Better
Wikipedia Mobile PageDan NosowitzA newly published study at the University of Minnesota suggests that Wikipedia is getting worse...as it gets better. Wikipedia's initial strength, it says, was due to...
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A Stark, 3-D Look At Carbon Emissions [Infographic]
Emissions, VisualizedRobbie TiltonTwirl the globe to see the world's worst polluters. Rather than breaking down stats on carbon emissions and emptying the digits into something bland, interactive media...
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Gun Shoots Criminals With DNA Tags, Marking Them For Later Arrest
DNA Gun In Action SelectaDNA's high-velocity DNA tagging system is available in both pistol and rifle formats. SelectamarkDNA tags label rioters and other criminals so cops can find them "at a less...
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Crazy Art Piece Commemorates The First Russian Cosmonauts
CyclotonePaul Prudence via Creative ApplicationsAnd particle accelerators, and four-dimensional space, and a bunch of other cool stuff. Just watch these videos. We're not exactly sure what particle...
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Bacteria In Earth's Atmosphere May Affect Cloud Formation And Climate
Bacteria From Space Georgia Tech graduate student Natasha DeLeon-Rodriguez shows an agar plate on which bacteria taken from tropospheric air samples are growing. Georgia Tech Photo: Gary MeekWeather...
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Science Confirms The Obvious: Americans Are Selfish
Standing Out From The CrowdWikimedia Commons We're less motivated to do something challenging if it benefits the common good. If you need an American to do something, don't mention the common good,...
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DARPA Can See You... From 17,500 Feet In The Air
Crazy CameraPBS via YouTubeA new video from the world's highest-resolution drone-mounted camera is mind-blowingly clear. And terrifying. Curious as to how the Defense Department could be spying on you...
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With More Food Than Ever, Why Is Hunger On The Rise?
Data Diet Ryan SnookOne of the dangers of virtual demand. Virtualization is a powerful tool for improving the real world. When we translate material things, from genes to jet planes, into numbers, we...
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FYI: Do Men Really Fall Apart When A Female Soldier Gets Killed?
Battle Ready U.S. Navy There's no scientific evidence to support the conventional wisdom that women wounded in combat would destroy male soldiers' morale and performance. Last Thursday, Defense...
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'Quantum Sense Of Smell' Theory Gains Traction
Maras, Sniffing It OutJastrow via WikimediaResearchers are still at odds over what mechanisms really lend us our olfactory sense. Our olfactory power is pretty central to our sensory perception--our...
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Mercedes' New Safety Tech Aims To End Wrong-Way Driving
Mercedes has new safety technology that has been upgraded to recognize more street signsMercedesThe prevention system detects no-entry signs and issues acoustic and visual warnings to the driver. While...
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SpaceX Wants To Lend Boeing's Troubled 787 Some Batteries
SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Lifts Off Toward the International Space Station May 22, 2012. SpaceX"We have never had a fire in any production battery pack," CEO Elon Musk says. Battery woes may have...
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Running Low On Cash, U.S. Physicists Recommend Shutting Off Nation's Last Big...
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider RingBrookhaven National LaboratoryIt will be a disaster for the U.S. physics community, say scientists. A group of scientists is reluctantly recommending that the U.S....
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New Fiber Changes Color When It's Stretched
Bastard Berry The bastard hogberry changes color when floating in water. Courtesy Peter VukusicInspired by the bastard hogberry Inspired by a tropical fruit, a team of materials scientists have created...
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Football Pads And Other NFL Technology We Owe To The Military
Football c. 1910Wikimedia CommonsWith Super Bowl XLVII coming up Sunday, we take a look at how military tech has changed the game. Click to enter the galleryFootball and the military have a lot in...
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DARPA Wants To Recruit Smarter Service Dogs By Scanning The Brains of Canine...
Special Ops CanineU.S. ArmyFunctional MRI could reveal which dogs are best suited to a life of military service. It's hard enough to find good people for a given job. Harder still: finding the right...
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