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After Nearly 70 Years, How Do Stealth Planes Stay Stealthy?
From the Horten Ho 229 to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, stealth technology has changed a lot
Gamers Are Better at Robotic Surgery Than Med Students
Robotic surgery - commanding a robotic arm to perform delicate surgical tasks - has become more and more popular in medicine
This Robot Has Better Muscles Than You Do
Forget Arnold Schwarzenegger or Tom Brady: the newest robots will take their muscle tone to task
Boredom Didn’t Exist as an Emotion in Darwin’s Days
In 1868, Darwin set out to quantify human emotion in a series of novel experiments, which researchers are recreating today
Pet Store Refuses to Sell Impulse-Buy Puppies for Christmas
Too many animals end up on death row, one Australian pet shop says, so their shop will not sell kittens or puppies around Christmas time
More Than One Person Has Built an Ark To Prepare for the Mayan Apocalypse
How exactly does one prepare for the end of the world?
Hunt for African Wildlife From Your Computer
A new citizen science project lets you in to the beautiful world of Serengeti National Park
Before the Civil War, There Were 8,000 Different Kinds of Money in the U.S.
It wasn't until after the war that the U.S. started to really use the dollar
These Two Kids Are Turning 12 at 12:12 on 12/12/12
One plans to eat Krispy Kreme donuts arranged in the shape of a 12, because "donuts are awesome"
How To Get an Ancient Lizard Named After You: Get Elected President
Simply get elected president, and you'll have a fair chance of some newly discovered creature inheriting your moniker
This Is Probably the World’s Most Beautiful Seismograph
Using different colors of paint and a map of Christchurch, this machine lays down beautiful portraits of New Zealand's deadly earthquakes
We Don’t Know the Origins of the Candy Cane, But They Almost Certainly Were Not Christian
There are a lot of explanations floating around out there about the candy cane—but almost none of them are true
The Most Exclusive Coffee in the World Is Harvested From Elephant Poo
Two cups of the so-called Black Ivory coffee cost around $50, while a pound of the digested beans total a tidy $500
Environmentalists Want To Keep Oil Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Wait, What?
Oil companies want to pull their rigs from the Gulf, but environmentalists are saying "no"
Google Gives Millions To Build Poacher-Hunting Drones
Google has joined Hillary Clinton, basketball star Yao Ming and countless wildlife organizations in the battle against illegal wildlife trade
In a Homemade Tank, Syrian Rebels Use a PlayStation Controller to Operate a Machine Gun
The Syrian rebel forces, who face a strong disparity in access to the tools of war, have fashioned themselves a homemade tank
This Weird Map Visualizes Air Pollution as Nose Hair Length
If there's one thing nobody wants, it's really long nose hairs. Which is perhaps why Clean Air Asia has decided to start visualizing each person's air pollution as super-long, disgusting nose hairs
The Fungus in Your Cheese Is Having Weird Sex
It turns out that the fungi in cheeses like blue cheese aren't just sitting there, waiting for you to eat them
Scientists Accidentally Create a Pina Colada Pineapple That Tastes Like a Coconut
Now, scientists have created the cocoapple—a pineapple that tastes like a coconut
This Is Every Bomb Dropped on London During the Blitz
See all 100 tones of explosives the Germans dropped on London in one map
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