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Watch Kids From 1962 Try to Build a Flying Bicycle

What kid hasn’t wanted to make their bicycle fly?

An oil well in North Dakota

Thanks to the Gas Boom, America Is Producing More Fuel Than Russia Or Saudi Arabia

This year the U.S. is set to overtake Russia as the world’s largest producer of oil and gas

Your Cheat Sheet to the 2013 Nobel Prizes

Love them or hate them, here we provide you with the sound bytes you’ll need to at least discuss them

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This New Charger Checks To See If Your Phone’s Been Hacked

As your smartphone becomes more important, it also becomes a more appealing target for hackers

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Energy Innovation

This Gadget Charges Your Phone With Fire

A new device uses heat from any fire to produce electricity

This Jetpack Could Carry You Twenty Miles And Be On the Market by Next Year

Pilots will have to wear hearing protection along with a helmet, neck restraints, boots and a fireproof suit

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This Site Shows You Every Face on Facebook

There are over a billion people with Facebook accounts, and this site lets you see all of their profile pictures at once

Lysol’s Vintage Ads Subtly Pushed Women to Use Its Disinfectant as Birth Control

As if that wasn’t bad enough, Lysol isn’t even an effective contraceptive

Britain’s Building a Transportation Network Just for Bees (And Other Pollinators)

The idea is to provide passage for insects that play a role in maintaining an estimated 90 percent of Britain’s greenery and crops through pollination

The iPhone 5s’ home button also serves as a fingerprint scanner.

These Hackers Say They’ve Already Cracked the New iPhone’s Fancy Fingerprint Lock

Hackers say they’ve found a way around the new iPhone’s fingerprint scanner, and it doesn’t sound all that hard

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What Colorado’s Floods Looked Like to Drones

Flooding took down power lines, took out sewage systems, and shut down entire towns. Here’s what all that looks like from the perspective of a drone

Your Facebook “Likes” Are an Expression of Free Speech

‘Like’ away, Facebook activists. Your thumbs ups are constitutionally protected

Women Can Now Map Street Harassment, One Catcall at a Time

Some, however, are doubtful that the app will actually enact any change

Designers Are Trying to Build an Invisible Skyscraper in South Korea

Most architects want everybody to see their buildings. But in South Korea, designers are working to achieve exactly the opposite: an invisible skyscraper

Build Your Very Own Incredible, Wind-Powered Creature

Your next rainy day, you now have no excuse to be bored. You’re welcome

This was most definitely not made by NASA.

NASA’s 3-D Printer Is Not Like the 3-D Printers You’ve Heard Too Much About

NASA’s 3-D printer is the 3-D printer your 3-D printer wishes it could be

Drones Could Carry Defibrillators Straight to Heart Attack Victims

For heart attack victims, life expectancy decreases by about 10 percent for every minute that ticks by after an emergency

This Company Just Added Auto-Pilot to Their Bulldozers

Construction equipment operators have to go through apprenticeships and training to learn to maneuver machines. But one company thinks that’s all too hard

Iranian Schools May Soon Teach “Drone Hunting”

The details of the new high school curriculum remain elusive, but the plan was likely inspired by the drones being deployed to the Middle East these days

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Scientists Attempt to Replace Human Taste Testers With Test Tubes

If everybody tasted differently, can you actually objectively evaluate how food tastes?

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