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The Fastest Way to Send Big Chunks of Data Is Through the Mail, Not the Internet
The future of Big Data is in the post
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This Drone Can Fit In Your Palm
The Black Hornet currently rank as the world’s smallest military-grade spy drone, weighing just 16 grams and measuring at 4 inches long
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Whether it’s your eyelid twitching, an involuntary shudder, or a muscle elsewhere contracting at random, twitchy muscles happen to everyone. But what are they, and why do they happen?
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There’s No Such Thing as a Concussion-Proof Helmet
Essentially, if you put 15 inches of foam on the outside of the helmet, you can make a concussion free helmet. But that’s completely impractical
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Searching for the Russian Loch Ness Monster in a Frozen Siberian Lake
In a record-breaking dive, the head of the Russian Geographical Society sunk to the bottom of Lake Labynkyr in Siberia, one of the coldest lakes in the world
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Scientists Think They’ve Found Richard III’s Body Under a Parking Lot
Researchers announced this morning that the bones found beneath a parking lot in England are likely those of King Richard III
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This Japanese Theater Company Has a Robot Actress
No, it’s not Brent Spiner. It’s an honest-to-goodness robot
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Quantum Physicists Show What Time Travel Could Look Like
Quantum physics professors at the University of Ulm in Germany, have created a mathematically-accurate visual approximation of the hypothetical Gödel model of the universe. That is, they show what it would look like if you could simultaneously see past, present, and future versions of physical objects. Sandrine Ceurstemont of New Scientist, who compiled the video […]
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Lemurs Are the Most Endangered Mammals on the Planet, And This Adorable Baby Is Their Future
The vast majority of lemur species are facing extinction, but this baby Coquerel’s safika is trying to help
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The FBI Once Freaked Out About Nazi Monks in the Amazon Rainforest
In October 1941, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover received a strange bit of war intelligence in a classified document
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U.S. Military Wants to Recruit the Smartest Dogs by Scanning Their Brains
The theory is that, by scanning a dog’s level of neural response to various stimuli, including handler cues, the researchers will be able to identify the dogs that will be the quickest learners and therefore the easiest to train
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Here’s What Three Mummies Might Have Looked Like While Alive
For the first time in over 2,000 years, these three mummies’ faces now stare back at viewers, much as they might have appeared just before their deaths
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1913 Nickel Could Sell for More Than $2 Million
The coin is one of only five 1913 Liberty Head nickels known to exist, though this one has an illicit, serendipitous back story
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To Hear Color, This Man Embedded a Chip in the Back of His Head
Because of a rare condition called achromatopsia—total color-blindness—he lived in a black-and-white world, until he and an inventor paired up to developed the “eyeborg,” a device that translates colors into sound
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Cracking the Code of the Human Genome
This Gun Shoots Criminals With DNA
This new gun shoots the bad guys with artificial DNA, that can then be traced back and identified
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Never Listen to a Wine Critic Babble About Tannins Again
Turns out, a lot of what wine experts “know” isn’t really based on fact
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Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis?
Shakespeare acquired an uncanny obsession with syphilis late in life, perhaps along with a few bacteria of his own
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Parking Meters, Originally Meant to Keep Traffic Moving, Need an Update
The long history of the parking meter - innocent seeming towers behind much of today’s driving woes
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