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How D-Dalus Flies Like Nothing Else
D-Dalus Graham Murdoch Last year, the Austrian engineering firm IAT21 set out to construct a flying machine that floated like a hummingbird, traveled as fast as a jet, was as quiet as a hot-air...
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Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Meatpacking Plant
Hydroponic Plant Bed Julie BeckGrowing kale and tilapia--and brewing beer--in an abandoned stretch of Chicago Recently I had the opportunity to visit The Plant, Chicago's first vertical farm. This...
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The Photographs of Fritz Goro, One of the Best Science Photographers of All Time
Moon Man This 1962 photo shows inventor Allyn Hazard's moon suit mockup, which carried its own food and oxygen. Fritz Goro/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Life put together a gallery of the...
View ArticleStudy Shows Females Can Delay the Aging of Sperm Cells for Decades
A new study, led by Dr. Klaus Reinhardt at the University of Sheffield, shows that females of some species can prolong the lifespan of ordinarily short-lived sperm cells by days, months, or even...
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Video: Mixing 21st-Century Cocktails with Dave Arnold at Booker & Dax
The Red Hot Poker John Mahoney There's an inescapable showmanship inherent in pouring liquid nitrogen into a champagne flute while a cloud of vapor billows from the -321°F fluid and puffs across the...
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The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, January 23-27, 2012
Hell-Monkey We love all living creatures here at PopSci, but that doesn't stop us from getting a little creeped out at the, you know, nightmarish appearance of this rare Burmese snub-nosed monkey. It's...
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Growing Snow to Help Predict Avalanches
Inside the Landslide MSU/Kelly Gorham Ed Adams, an engineering professor at Montana State University, used to study avalanches from inside a fortified shack. He would attach his shack to a boulder on a...
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This Week in the Future, January 23-27, 2012
This Week in the Future, January 23-27, 2012 Baarbarian Look, world's longest ongoing experiment. You're impressive. We won't deny that. But the fact that nobody has ever seen your tar pitch actually...
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Video: Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Speeding Bullet
Skin Augmented With Spider-Silk Stops a Bullet via New Scientist Extolling the many virtues of spider silk is something of a trend these days, as the fine yet remarkably hardy material continues to...
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Hip-Hop Basslines Could Power Implantable Medical Devices
Pressure Sensor A new type of miniature pressure sensor, designed to be implanted in the body, is powered by a cantilever that moves in response to acoustic waves from music or plain tones. Birck...
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Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
Uncertainty Principles Jonathan Carlson On March 31, 2009, a panel of scientists and civil servants met to assess the risk presented by a recent series of tremors in the Abruzzo region of Italy. They...
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Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists
The Source of the 'Blue Goo' via Boing Boing Prepare your tinfoil hats: A man in Dorset, UK, was showered with tiny spheres of blue goo that rained down from the sky during a hailstorm last week. The...
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The Best Way to Unbuild a Dam
Elwha Dam National Park ServiceWhat it takes to mend a dammed-up ecosystem In 2010, engineers in the U.S. dismantled 60 dams, helping to reclaim rivers for wildlife. Most of these dams were small,...
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Startup Scans In-Store Surveillance Footage to Analyze Shoppers' Preferences
Surveillance Cameras Jonathan McIntosh via Flickr Millions of security cameras capture constant video at businesses and retail locations throughout the U.S., but for the most part their footage is only...
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Handheld Pathogen Sensor Could Diagnose HIV in 30 Minutes
Chaining Synthetic DNA to Detect Pathogens Two Y-shaped structures of synthetic DNA attach themselves to the target molecule in different places. From there, the other two arms of the "Y" can link with...
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Nanotube Paint Can Spot Structural Defects and Alert Authorities Before...
Nano Paint Mohamed Saafi of the University of Strathclyde examines a piece of material coated with a new nano paint, which can detect structural damage when electrodes are attached. University of...
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Video: People Flying, Superhero Style, Over New York City
New York Finally Gets Its Real-Life Superheroes Viral marketing agency Thinkmodo has been bringing sci-fi to life in the skies over New York City for the past couple of weeks, so if you thought you saw...
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Translating Brain Waves to Reconstruct Sounds and Conversations You've Heard
Reconstructing Words The top shows a spectrogram of six isolated words (deep, jazz, cause) and pseudo-words (fook, ors, nim) presented to an individual participant. At the bottom, the speech segments...
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Video: PopSci's Favorite Japanese Fembot Gets a Modeling Job at the Mall
Geminoid-F at the Mall via DigInfo NewsAdd 'mannequin' to the list of jobs being replaced by robots In this economy, a job is a job. And while we await the day that we can hire our robot companions to...
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The Seventh-Generation Porsche 911 is Lighter, Faster and More Efficient
2012 Porsche 911 Carrera Porsche Since unveiling the 911 Carrera in 1963, Porsche has built many dozens of variations, ranging from convertibles to racing editions to subtly tweaked versions...
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