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This Is The World's Smallest Space Telescope
Today, scientists will launch two tiny satellites with telescopes on board. Sometimes a bargain satellite is best. Engineers have been making cubesats--cheap cube-satellites that hitch a ride onto...
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7 Ways Sitting Will Kill You
Get Up, Stand UpDreamstimeLet's count the ways. This is the one piece of bad news you shouldn't sit down for: Sitting for hours on end, every day, is bad for your health. Sitting at work is bad for...
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Packing Up A Solar-Powered Plane That Will Fly Across America [Video]
Solar Impulse wants to go coast to coast, day and night. Planes usually eat up a lot of fuel, but one team is trying to make a long flight without any fuel at all. Solar Impulse--a solar-powered plane...
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The U.S. Army's New 84-Ton Tank Is Nearly IED-Proof
The Ground Combat VehicleU.S. ArmyThe new Ground Combat Vehicle weighs twice as much as the tank it's designed to replace, and it's massive enough to survive a roadside bomb. Heavy does not even begin...
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The Drama Over Project Encode, And Why Big Science And Small Science Are...
Encode Project On the Cover of Nature The project published around 30 papers in three leading scientific journal groups. © Nature Sept. 6, 2012In a novel form of peer review, a biologist has given an...
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Analysis: Russian Meteorite Was An Everyday Space Rock, Common Throughout The...
Space Rock FragmentsUral Federal UniversityBut it was still notable for its size, and its well-recorded demise in the atmosphere. The giant space rock that exploded above Russia earlier this month...
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Wristband Tracks Your Muscle Movements For Super-Precise Gesture Controls
Swipe the air to pause. Wave to fly drone. Most gesture-control systems require some kind of external sensors that "see" you, with optical sensors or depth sensors or cameras. They're on the outside,...
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Enjoy These Amazing High-Def Nature GIFs
We've picked out a few favorites from Head Like An Orange, home of hundreds of amazing nature GIFs. Marinus is a 28-year-old from the Netherlands, and he makes GIFs. But not just any GIFs: his Tumblr,...
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Quants V. Critics: Who Was Better At Predicting The Oscars?
OscarAntoine TaveneauxIn our small sample, math models won out slightly over expert critics in predicting Oscar wins in our 10 favorite categories. It looks like you can mathematically predict the...
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Flapping Robotic Wing Helps Biologists Uncover Secrets Of Bat Flight
Robat Wing A robotic bat wing lets researchers measure forces, joint movements, and flight parameters - and learn more about how the real thing operates in nature. Breuer and Swartz labs/Brown...
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Homemade Jetpack Designed To Reach An Altitude Of 25,000 Feet
Jetpacks For EveryoneCourtesy SkyflashBut, uh, how do you land? It's 2013, so we've all been wondering: Where's my jetpack? The future won't have truly arrived until we can strap into a backpack and...
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NYPD: Murder Is Down Because Of Our Facebook Surveillance
NYPD CarWikimedia CommonsTools of the 21st-century police department Last year was a record low for murders in New York City, with only 414 (eep) counted. Part of the reason for that number? Facebook,...
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FYI: How Do You Ship A Dinosaur Halfway Around The World?
Tarbosaurus bataar A mounted Tarbosaurus bataar fossil on display at the CosmoCaixa museum in Spain Photo by Jordi Payà on FlickrA large Mongolian dinosaur fossil, subject of a legal battle last year,...
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New Research Sheds Light On How Dogs Became Dogs
Dog SkeletonWikipediaIsolation from wolves seems to be the crucial step to the evolution of the modern domesticated dog. At first blush, the emergence of man's best friend is pretty straightforward....
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DARPA Wants To Invent An Aircraft That Hovers Like A Helicopter But Flies...
The government research agency says it will spend $150 million to develop a fast airplane that can take off and land like a helicopter. The most useful aircraft in the world would take off, hover, and...
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Smartphone-Powered Satellite Blasts Into Space
The STRaND-1 satellite in December 2012 The little porthole is for the smartphone's camera. SSTL/SSCHere's looking at you. Got an Android phone? It's now got a cousin in space. A Google Nexus...
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MasterCard's New Digital Wallet Service Will Let You Skip The Checkout Line
MasterCard MasterPassMasterCardOn the other hand, it'll look like you're shoplifting. You know how convenient it is when you buy something on Amazon with one click? You find what you want, you click...
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DNA Testing Case Goes To The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is hearing a DNA rights case todayPhoto by Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United StatesCan police take a DNA sample from you after you've been arrested, but...
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Why You Can't Stop Eating Cheetos
Betcha Can't Eat Just OneEvan-Amos, via WikimediaA recent article in the New York Times Magazine delves into the science of junk-food craving. In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, food...
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Can Science Solve France's Twin Rape Mystery?
Twins Even identical twins aren't exactly identical Dreamstime DNA evidence suggests at least one of two identical twins is guilty of rape in France. Is the science of DNA testing far enough along to...
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