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This Camera Looks at the World Through an Insect’s Eyes

With 180 individual lenses, this new camera mimics an insect's compound eye

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The Internet on the Battlefield Could Be Way Better

On the battlefield, having internet to communicate with one another, control objects and weapons, and calculate positions can be extremely important

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Some Shoppers Actively Avoid ‘Green’ Products

While energy efficiency and green labeling is a popular marketing strategy today, this strategy can polarize some conservative customers

Hurricane Sandy Spilled 11 Billion Gallons of Sewage

Enough sewage to fill a 41 food deep pool the size of Central Park spilled out during Hurricane Sandy

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The Only Clouded Leopard Left in Taiwan Is Stuffed on a Museum Shelf

Zoologists call the results of a 13-year-long hunt to find any remaining clouded leopards "disappointing"

Drawing of Purkinje cells and granule cells from pigeon cerebellum by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, 1899.

Happy Birthday to the Father of Modern Neuroscience, Who Wanted to Be an Artist

Ramón y Cajal may have changed neuroscience forever, but he always maintained his original childhood passion for art

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Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years

Thomas Parnell, the school's first physics professor, set up an experiment. It's still going

The honeybee, Apis mellifera, is in trouble because of colony collapse disorder.

High Fructose Corn Syrup May Be Partly Responsible for Bees’ Collapsing Colonies

High fructose corn syrup, the sugary compound in soda, is also fed to bees

A bone-munching worm eating a fish bone.

How Bone-Eating Zombie Worms Drill Through Whale Skeletons

The worms use a "bone-melting acid" that frees up the nutrients within both whale and fish bones

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IBM Engineers Pushed Individual Atoms Around to Make This Amazing Stop-Motion Movie

IBM was the first to draw with atoms, and now they're making them dance

It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving

There's controversy surrounding the oak's new home, but park or no park, the Ghirardi Oak is staying, and the transport seems to have been a success

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Physicists to Shoot Extremely Fast-Moving Electrons at Dinosaur Skin Fossil

The actual color of dinosaur skin is still very much up for debate

This isn’t the ad in question, but it is kind of funny.

Can This Marketing Campaign Make Hipsters Turn to Jesus?

Marketers can convince us to do crazy things, like tattoo brand names on our foreheads or jump out of airplanes. But can they make hipsters turn to God?

Mary Thom, Feminist, Historian and Editor, Dies in Motorcycle Crash at 68

Mary Thom, feminist editor, writer and behind-the-scenes activist, died earlier this week in a motorcycle accident in Yonkers

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To Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Order Your Groceries Online

Ordering groceries online for delivery cuts carbon emissions by half when compared with traveling to the store by car

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We’re Just 35 Devil’s Hole Pupfish Away From the World’s Best-Documented Extinction

If the species does go extinct, it will join Florida's Dusky seaside sparrow as an endangered species that has died out while under federal protection

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Oslo Runs on Garbage, And Now It’s Running Out

When you burn garbage for as fuel, you can find yourself in a tricky spot

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Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane

At the heart of Saturn's hexagon, a giant hurricane

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo during yesterday’s test.

Celebrating Nearly a Decade of Richard Branson Almost Sending Us to Space

In 2004, Richard Branson said we'd be in space by 2008. That didn't pan out

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This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch

A robot with a sense of touch can better navigate our cluttered world

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