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Preindustrial workers built huge industries based on the liquid's cleaning power and corrosiveness--and the staler the pee, the better
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For starters, laptops in classrooms are a big distraction, singing phrases can help you learn a language and multitasking isn't good for your grades
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As reefs continue dying off, scientists have started to think more boldly about how to protect them
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Sergio Albiac generates images of people by collecting their head shots and replacing pixels with snippets from pictures of stars and galaxies
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Venture capitalist Christopher Schroeder sees the Arab Spring giving rise to a new innovative center in Egypt and beyond
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Will 100 become the new 60? And do we really want that to happen?
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A new study shows that users on social news sites view a comment differently based on the judgement of users before them
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In vitro meat? Teeth grown from urine? Screaming rocks and singing bats? It's all real science from the summer of 2013
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Getting away from artificial light and basking in sunlight can reset your internal clock, new research shows
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The world's cities are in the midst of a skyscraper boom. And one growing trend is to connect pre-fab floors like Lego pieces
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Is a club where you train on walls while sensors track your body's performance just another fitness trend? Or is it real innovation?
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The Ramps and Pathways program encourages students to think like engineers before they've reached double digits
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With so much interest in what's in our meals, food innovators are focusing on making the healthy palatable.
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Entrepreneur Elon Musk thinks bullet trains are too slow and expensive. He says he has a better idea: high-speed travel in tubes
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By distributing networks of microphones to wetlands and forests around the world, biologists could track biodiversity in a whole new way
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Now that passwords are neither secure nor easy, what will replace them? Fingerprint scans? Electronic tattoos? A pill?
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Examining the network of power plants, transmission wires, and pipelines gives new insights into the inner workings of the electrical grid
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The Pentland Firth, a seaway along Scotland's Northern coast, could generate enough electricity to meet half of the country's needs, new research finds
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An invention called the solarclave could help prevent millions of annual infections that result from improperly cleaned medical equipment
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Just posting calorie counts isn't very effective. What may work, though, is framing overeating in terms everyone understands
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