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What happens when geeks have kids? They create shopping sites like Wittlebee
There are new trends in technology seemingly popping up every few weeks and one that has caught our attention are super-focused subscription shopping sites that fit a very narrow niche. We told you about one such company a few weeks ago called Love With ...
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Stem Cells Could Help Heal Broken Hearts [Medicine]





Even after recovery, heart attacks can leave a lasting mark on your ticker—scar tissue weakens the muscle and prevents it from functioning as well as it did before seizing up. A pioneering stem-cell ...
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MIT's Error Correcting Codes Will Fix Your Crappy Wireless Reception [Wireless]





It doesn't matter how many signal relay towers blanket your city, the quality of your wireless reception can often change drastically—sometimes within a few steps. But MIT researchers think they've f...
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Your Heartbeat Could Be Your Password [Science]





A technology in the works might soon allow you to unlock your hard drive by simply touching your keyboard. Your unique heartbeat, emitted through your fingertip, would be your password. More &raqu...
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The Little Equation at the Heart of the Economic Collapse [Economics]





When the global financial markets began to collapse in 2007, everybody turned on the banks and bankers — and they haven't stopped since. But one of the culprits was a humble piece of mathematics: the...
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The Spray-On Antenna That Boosts Reception Using Zero Power [Video]





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This Is What One Shark Eating Another Looks Like [Image Cache]





While out diving one day in the Great Barrier Reef, a team of scientists discovered a tasselled wobbegong shark chowing down on a cousin. Fortunately, they managed to take a photograph, and here it is. ...
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School of Fail: We’re Going To Have Fun, With Science


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Future Soldiers Could Go to War Wearing Fish-Scale Armor [War]





Piranha have a well-earned reputation for being able and willing to eat just about anything in their path. One of the few exceptions is the Arapaima, a six-foot long, 300-pound Amazonian predator with bony...
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We Are So Close to Inventing a Real-Life Mr. Fusion [Video]





Some would argue that the biggest obstacle robotics currently faces isn't the Uncanny Valley or suppressing the urge to destroy all humans—it's keeping their batteries charged. The newest version of...
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How The Zebra Actually Got Its Stripes [Science]





Despite being perhaps the most recognizable animal on the planet, biologists have been puzzled for centuries over how the zebra got its stripes. But scientists have worked out an answer, and it's nothing t...
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The Most Precise Image of a Post-Earthquake Landscape Ever Created [Science]





A new measurement tool that uses light detection and ranging (or LiDAR) can show how earthquakes have changed the landscape down to a few inches—and that can help us prepare for difficult-to-predict ...
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This Bikini-Shaped Bacteria Produces Some of the World's Strongest Glue [Science]





Remember the old Crazy Glue commercial where the guy suspended himself from his hard hat with just a dab of the adhesive? If he had been using the sugary compounds this bacteria naturally produces, he coul...
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Scientists Turn Iron Sheets Invisible to X-Ray Using Quantum Interference [Science]





We just reported a few weeks ago on the successful masking of objects from microwaves. Now a research team from Hamburg, Germany has figured out how to make iron (57Fe) transparent to X-rays—and pres...
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How a Laser Could Make Your Hard Drive 1,000 Times Faster [Science]





The reason people are so pumped about solid-state hard drives right now is because they're super-speedy. But if you think your SSD is fast, just wait until a new breed of laser-based hard drives comes to m...
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Jeff Bezos-Funded Bigot Search Engine Powers Android Siri Rival [Video]





I'm sure Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos doesn't know about this, but he's funding a seemingly ultra-Christian search engine that is anti-abortion, anti-evolution, racist and even thinks that rape may be...
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This Tiny Primate Uses Bat-Like Ultrasonic Communication [Science]





The Philippine tarsier was once considered one of the quieter primate species. Turns out that's because we simply weren't listening hard enough. More »



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Study: We Love Facebook Because It Tricks Us Into Thinking We're Doing Something Important [Science]





When you're perusing your Facebook account, your brain might be fooling you into thinking you're doing something incredibly creative and productive that will improve your life. If only that were true! M...
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SCIENCE FACT:FOSSIL FUEL IS RENEWABLE

SCIENCE FACT:FOSSIL FUEL IS RENEWABLE
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The Best Microscopic Videos of the Year [Video]





Every year, Nikon's Small World in Motion Competition rounds up the best microscopic videos from scientists across the world. The results are strange but beautiful, and the winner will make you think abo...
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These Are the Earliest Human Paintings Ever [Science]





According to new dating tests, these are the first paintings ever made by humans. They are seals painted more than 42,000 years ago, located in the Cave of Nerja, in Málaga, Spain. And they may change our ...
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How to Read a Menu, the Scientific Way [Food]





For decades, the restaurant trade has believed that there's a sweet spot on the menus they hand to you — a section in the the upper right corner, where your gaze will focus — and that's where t...
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How Robots See The World [Video]





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How To Electrify Your Brain To Be Smarter With a 9-Volt Battery [Science]





Transcranial direct current stimulation can make your brain work better. DARPA proved it can make you better at video games, the U.S. Air Force has shown it cuts drone remote-pilot training in half, and Ha...
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No Online Dating Site Can Match Up Your Inner Crazy [Science]





Online dating's said to be the future of relationships, now that we're all too busy to meet people in real life. But claims that websites can match you with your ideal partner using scientific algorithms a...
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We Finally Reached That 20 Million Year Old Lake Beneath Antarctica [Vostok]





After 20 years of drilling, Russian scientists have finally punched a hole in the bottom of the planet to reach the ancient lake 13,000 feet beneath Antarctica. More »



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How Tomatoes Could Curb Cancer in Italy [Science]





I lived in Italy for nearly 20 years, and it's difficult to imagine Italians tolerating anyone tampering with their precious tomato, the main ingredient in their all-important "gravy." But they seem to be ...
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Bacteria-Killing Plasma Torches Could Make Raw Food Safer Without Cooking It [Science]





When it comes to kitchen safety, raw chicken can be even more dangerous than a sharp knife because of bacteria like salmonella. But a new study reveals that cold plasma torches could eliminate those harmfu...
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Massage Feels Good Because It Changes Your Gene Expression [Science]





Stiff muscles definitely benefit from a rub down, but scientists have never quite known why. Now, a team of researchers has shown that it works by changing your gene expression — quite literally, you...
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How a 3D-Printed Jaw Let a Woman Eat Again [3D Printing]





If dental hygiene isn't high on your priorities, don't worry: now you can just print a new set of teeth. Last year, an 83-year-old woman had her entire lower jaw replaced with a 3D printed replica. More...
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New York City's Energy Consumption Mapped Out, Building-by-Building [Data]





Convinced you're more environmentally aware than your neighbors? Now you can find out: scientists have mapped the entire energy use of New York City, building by building. More »


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Did You Know That Earth Is Getting Lighter Every Day? [Wtf]





Earth is getting 50,000 tonnes lighter every year, even while 40,000 tonnes of space dust fall onto our planet's surface during the same period. So, why are we losing so much weight? You will be surprised....
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Self Cooling Can Plummets Thirty Degrees In Mere Minutes [Video]





Yesterday we showed you a few methods for quickly chilling your Superbowl libations, but none are as fast, or easy, as West Coast Chillers new can which lowers the energy drink's temperature by 30 degrees ...
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Did North Korea Secretly Test Two Nukes in 2010? [North Korea]





A new analysis suggests North Korea clandestinely tested two nuclear weapons in 2010. If it's true, it would double the number of known tests hailing from the country and could mean serious nuclear warhead...
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The Mini Crab Bot Will Crawl Down Your Throat to Cure Your Cancer [Monster Machines]





The famous Chili Crab dish from Singapore inspires more than just drooling. A pair of researchers have developed a robot with two tiny crab-like pincers that attacks stomach cancer via your mouth. More&...
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Social Media and Email are More Addictive Than Alcohol and Cigarettes [Science]





If, like mine, your partner thinks you have a problem because you check social media and email too often, it turns out they might be right. A new study suggests that checking our phones and computers is mo...
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How To Make The Geekiest Chandelier In The World [Design]





The problem with most light fittings is that they're only about style: they're the preserve of hipsters and interior designers. If you want something a little more geeky, why not make your own test tube ch...
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Scientists Have Wired a Cockroach, Matrix-Style [Science]





Cripes, why don't we just hand the planet over to the robots already. Things were bad with the self-controlling war machines and computers capable of destroying our greatest trivia minds, but now we've inv...
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What the Hell Did Researchers Pull from the Depths of New Zealand's Seas? [Wtf]





No, this photo hasn't been 'shopped. You are looking at a specimen from a barely-known and even-more-rarely-seen group of "Supergiant" amphipods—crustaceans that grow twenty times the size of their r...
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This Nine-Year-Old Girl Just Had Six of Her Organs Replaced—That's a Record [Medicine]





When she was five, Alannah Shevenell's doctors discovered the cause of her fever, weight loss, and distended belly—a sizable tumor spreading throughout her body. After two failed surgeries and rounds...
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Fifth Grader Accidentally Concocts a New Explosive Molecule [Science]





Admittedly, I did spend my childhood playing with explosives. But I certainly never had as much success as 10-year-old Clara Lazen (not pictured), who accidentally created a new energy storing molecule, te...
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Stubborn Whooping Cranes Refuse to Fly South, So They Will Be Trucked [Video]





Conservationists have made huge efforts to coax endangered whooping cranes to fly south. Still, the birds, who started their journey in Wisconsin, have alighted in Alabama and refuse to fly any further. S...
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Scientists Transform Deadly Plant Into Cancer Killing Smart Bomb [Science]





The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant "deadly carrot," because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero mixed it with frankincense to treat bruises. Until the early...
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This Is How Spaceships Are Born [Video]





Have you ever wondered how the hell spaceships get made? I mean, how does something like the six-legged ATHLETE rover go from an engineering fantasy into an actual working thing? Creativity? Technological...
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Death Valley Volcano "May Explode At Any Time" [Volcanoes]





Good news: A team of scientists has discovered that we can predict super volcano eruptions "decades in advance." Bad news: Another team of scientists has discovered that a volcano in Death Valley, Californ...
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Five Ways to Predict Winter That Are Even Dumber Than a Groundhog [Groundhog Day]





Today, millions of Americans will wait with bated breath for a stupid rodent to see its shadow, all in hopes of figuring out how long winter wil last. Silly? Sure. But not the weirdest winter predictor, no...
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"Scorpion Skin" Armor Could Help Protect Machines Against Sand Damage [Science]





As anyone who's been to the beach can tell you, sand has an uncanny ability to work its way into the most obscene places. Amusing for people, sure, but for machines, sand is a killer—penetrating gear...
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According to the FDA, Your Stem Cells Are Now Drugs [Fda]





In recent court filings, the Food and Drug Administration has asserted that stem cells—you know, the ones our bodies produce naturally—are in fact drugs and subject to its regulatory oversight....
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WIN!: Doppelgangers WIN

Weeping with reverence right now? Science understands you.

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20 Million Year Old Lake Beneath Antarctica Is About to Be Uncovered [Science]





Two and a half miles under the Earth is Lake Vostok, which hasn't seen the light of day in 20 million years. It's taken almost 20 years of drilling, but Russian scientists are about to break through and ex...
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