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Can This App Put An End To New York's Controversial Stop And Frisk Searches?
Stop & Frisk WatchNYCLUThe New York Civil Liberties Union wants everyone ready to record stop and frisk searches. The New York Civil Liberties Union has released an app that lets bystanders...
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Scientists Reconstruct Scampering Common Ancestor Of All Us Placental Mammals
The Placental Mammal's Common AncestorClick here to see a larger version.Carl BuellA detailed tree of life maps out the evolution of placental mammals--a group that includes whales, bats, and...
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Iran Releases Video Supposedly Taken From Captured U.S. Drone
Homesick DroneMore than a year after capturing one of our drones, Iran is still trying to taunt us with it. Video extracted from a CIA spy drone that Iran captured in 2011 has been broadcast on the...
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Mystery Animal Contest: Who Is This Feathered Oddball?
Mystery Animal: Feb. 7, 2013TBA (It's a Mystery!)Guess the species (either common or Linnaean) by tweeting at us--we're @PopSci--and get your name listed right here! Plus eternal glory, obviously. So,...
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This Mind-Blowing, Horseshoe-Shaped Neon Hotel Can Light Up The Skyline
Sheraton Huzhou Hot Spring ResortWeibo/designboomA lakeside view from every angle Sheraton is opening a bucket-load of hotels this year, including 15 in China, and we can only hope they all look as...
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Augmented Reality App Translates Newspaper Articles For Children
Will the much-coveted 8-year-old market save the industry? To help sustain a floundering business model, newspapers are reaching for new technology. We've seen augmented reality magazines before, and...
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Giant Asteroid Impact Dated--Precisely--To Dinosaurs' End
Asteroid ImpactNASANew evidence settles a troubling discrepancy in the timeline of events that led to Earth's last great mass extinction. A couple of years ago, an international team of researchers got...
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Your Immune System 'Remembers' Microbes It's Never Fought Before, New Study Says
Healthy Human T CellWikimedia CommonsImmune cells build up strength against common bugs we encounter everywhere, and this helps us resist more dangerous ones. Kids eating dirt: Maybe a good thing....
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How Mark Changizi Conquered Colorblindness With Glasses
This article originally appeared on io9.A pair of researchers from 2AI Labs have developed a wearable eyeglass device that effectively cures red-green color blindness. Called O2Amps, the technology...
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Coming Soon To The Coolest Classrooms: A Box Full Of Robots
RobotsLab BOX The box comes equipped with an AR.drone, a Sphero robot ball, a Mobot modular two-wheeler, and a robotic arm. RobotsLabA new teacher's kit designed to make it easy and affordable...
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These LED Bulbs Can Shine With A Color You Select From Any Photo
Philips HueSam KaplanAnd do other neat tricks. Smart lighting that's as easy as screwing in a bulb. Smart lighting systems allow homeowners to control any bulb in their house, set timers, and dim...
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Linux-Powered Pen Calls You Out For Crappy Grammar
The Future Of WritingCourtesy LernstiftThe training wheels of penmanship. In the digital age, we have barely any use for the common pen. What good is something that doesn't even have WiFi? Luckily, a...
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Alaska Brewery Uses Beer To Make More Beer
DraffJinxThe Alaskan Brewing Company burns its own spent grain for fuel. The Associated Press has the story of Juneau's Alaskan Brewing Company, which has installed a pleasingly sustainable new boiler...
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Kickstarter For An Open-Source Death Star Has Raised More Than $300,000
Death Star KickstarterKickstarterWhite House officials have already shot down a proposal for a Death Star, but who needs 'em? A new Kickstarter campaign is bringing the Death Star to the people, and in...
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Kids Are Still Drawing 1900s Idea Of What Dinosaurs Looked Like
T-Rex With Incorrect Posture An incorrect historical image of the T-rex, with inaccurate posture and skull shape. Wikimedia CommonsDraw a Tyrannosaurus rex from memory, right now. It's probably wrong...
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A Map Of Where Drones Are Allowed In The U.S.
The FAA's Drone ListEFFThe Electronic Frontier Foundation releases the Federal Aviation Administration's drone authorization list. See who's allowed to fly drones in your neighborhood! If you want to...
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BeerSci: A Decade-Old Beer Is Gross, Right?
Beersci LogoTodd DetwilerNot necessarily! The chemistry behind aging ales, wet-cardboard taste, and what you can do about it. BeerSci Note: From the outset, I decided that I'd occasionally run stories...
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What Climate Change Sounds Like
Melting Ice Don't call me an ice cube. christine zeninoA musicologist and a climatologist create a soundtrack for glacier melt. A climatologist has teamed up with a musicologist to translate data from...
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What Does Cheese Really Taste Like? [Infographic]
Awesome, that's what. Once you go beyond the types of cheese that can be ordered on a Subway not-quite-footlong sandwich, the world of fancy cheeses can be a baffling one, full of strange names and...
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BigPic: Northeastern U.S., Meet Nemo
Nemo, February 8, 2013NASALike Sandy, but colder Sandy was a colossal storm that formed when two giant low-pressure systems merged over the northeastern U.S. in early November. Nemo, on the other hand,...
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