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How Earth Got Its Oxygen [Science]





If you're currently living on our pale blue dot, you should thank it for becoming inhabitable for us human folk. Specifically, you should look down and thank its mantle because scientists are saying that E...
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Driverless car update
Getting lawmakers in the seat of a self-driving Prius has become Google’s M.O., according to Matthew Newton, editor of DriverlessCarHQ.com, a site dedicated to covering autonomous cars. “Google has been giving free rides to policymakers in California, Nev...
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Skinny Jeans Are Bad For Your Health [Clothes]





They might be a staple of the well-dressed geek's wardrobe, but skinny jeans aren't doing you any favors. In fact, they might be causing you real, physical damage. More »



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Why Eating When You're Depressed Makes You Eat More [Science]





In Austin Powers, Fat Bastard explains that he eats when he's depressed, and he's depressed because he eats. Turns out, these kinds of vicious circles of eating are due to a drug-like hit-and-comedown resp...
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School of Fail: The Scientific Meme-thod



Science has dropped.

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This Crazy Optical Illusion Makes Beautiful Faces Look Grotesque [Video]





Watch this video while staring at the cross in the center, and you'll see bulbous foreheads, gigantic noses and terrifying eyes. Watch it again while looking at the faces, and you'll see they're perfectly...
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Researchers Turn Bubbles Into Laser-Controlled Microrobots [Video]





Of all the exotic space-age materials you can use to build a robot, we never thought bubbles would be a viable option. But researchers at the University of Hawaii have done just that with a microscopic ro...
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Your Gut Beats Your Brains in Shady Transactions [Science]





If you've ever felt uneasy about making a financial transaction that seemed somehow unfair, you'll know that it's not just your brain telling you something's bad. Instead, if you have a shred of compassion...
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How We Measure the Universe Without Intergalactic Rulers [Video]





Scientists tell us that our universe is trillions of miles wide, but how exactly do they come to that measurement without an equally long tape measure? As this beautifully animated video explains, by usin...
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Baby's Life Saved By World's Smallest Artificial Heart [Medicine]





Like all technology, medical implants can be made smaller as the engineering behind them gets more advanced. Which is why a 16-month-old Italian baby was able to become the recipient of the world's smalles...
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Scientists Turn DNA Into Rewritable Memory [Science]





DNA, the strings of chemicals which define us, acts like a kind of read-only biological data storage device. Now, though, synthetic biologists have managed to turn DNA into a form or rewritable memory, jus...
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Oxford University Is Hunting For the Yeti [Science]





While most of us probably suspect that the yeti is a mythical beast, the finest minds in the world beg to differ. Which is why Oxford University has just announced that it is going on a yeti hunt, to estab...
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SpaceX FInally Takes Off [SpaceX]





First it was on, then it was off. Then on, then off. Then it had a little wobble. Now, SpaceX has finally launched, making its NASA's first successful involvement with the world of private space flight. ...
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Study Confirms That Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Really Do Go Together [Science]





How many times did you hear your parents yell at you to "turn down that racket" as you blasted songs from your speakers? Turns out, they had a few reasons—a new study has found that kids that spend a...
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How Private Is Your DNA? [Science]





Unlike the contents of your inbox, bank statement, or Facebook timeline, your DNA quite literally defines you. It's strange, then, that in an age where sequencing the genome is becoming trivial, we don't g...
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Why Real Men Eat Red Meat [Health]





We know eating red meat can kill us and make us feel happy but the real reason guys eat it? It makes them feel manly. According to scientists, red meat is synonymous with masculinity making it desirable fo...
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Watch the SpaceX Falcon 9 Undergo Performance Anxiety With the Whole World Watching [Video]





They say the first time never lasts as long as you'd want. Yesterday's failed SpaceX Falcon 9 launch is no exception. Watch the rocket tremble with anticipation and light its load, only to have its perfor...
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You Did What? Idiots Teach Robots How To Build Their Own Tools [Video]





Well, this is just fantastic. We're all for the advancement of robot technology so that one day they can cater to our every beck and call. But researchers at ETH Zurich have foolishly designed a robot tha...
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Engine Problems Delay Falcon 9's Historic Launch [SpaceX]





Before it could slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on laughter-silvered wings, SpaceX's Falcon 9's early morning launch was unfortunately scrapped by Nasa today due to higher than normal pre...
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School of Fail: Where to Go to View Sunday’s Solar Eclipse



In case you haven’t heard, there’s going to be a solar eclipse on Sunday! My understanding is that the closer you are to being in that red area the more of the solar eclipse you’ll see.
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A Goofy Circus Video Game Is Helping Stroke Victims Recover [Video]





It's no fun recovering from a stroke and relearning to do simple things that were once totally natural. That's being offset by new video games that refine patients motor skills by having them play games t...
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Your Brain on Facebook [Facebook]





Today is all about Facebook's big $100 billion IPO. But how did the social media titan get so titanic to begin with? Harvard Business Review's David Rock explains that Facebook is so far ahead of human pra...
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This Imperfect Processor Is 15 Times More Efficient Than Yours [Guts]





While it might sound like a dumb idea, designing a computer processor that can make mistakes could be a good thing—especially where energy use is a concern. More »



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How to Temporarily Blind Yourself [Science]





Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be temporarily blind? Of course you have. In fact, there is a way to trick your body into becoming blind, at least for a few minutes. More »
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Is Cilantro Hating Genetic? [Science]





There are a small, but vehement, group of people that hate cilantro with a passion. But it turns out that they might not be fussy; instead, they might just be unlucky enough to be beneficiaries of a curiou...
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Scientists Invent Grow-in-the-Dark Plants [Science]





The Sun's rays power virtually all vegetative growth on the face of the Earth, or at least they used to. A new discovery by a team at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany will coerce plants int...
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Watch How a Rod Impaled a 19th Century Man's Skull Without Killing Him [Video]





You've might have heard the story of Phineas Gage, the 19th century construction foreman who was impaled through the brain with a tampering rod, but lived a relatively normal life. Researchers at UCLA hav...
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Nasa Wants To Snatch Asteroids With a Spiderman-Inspired Spiny Claw [Video]





Marvel's web-slinger is able to scale tall buildings thanks to a set of spiny hairs on his fingers. And NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory thinks the same approach could make it easy for spacecraft to latch...
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Coffee Drinkers Live Longer [Science]





Millions of us start the morning with a coffee and think nothing of it. But new medical research suggests that it could be helping you live longer—if you drink enough of it. More »
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This Paralyzed Woman Just Drank a Bottle of Coffee With Her Mind [Video]





Our Ghost in the Shell dystopian future will be here sooner than you think. A new study published in Nature today demonstrates, for the first time that robotic limbs can successfully be controlled with ju...
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Brain Tapeworms Are Real, And They're Disgusting [Health]





You might think of tapeworms as awful parasites that find their way into your intestine, grow as big as 50 feet long, and cause horrible gastrointestinal issues. But that's only one step of a larger infect...
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All The World's Subways Are Converging to a Single Optimal Layout [Science]





After decades of urban evolution, the world's major subway systems appear to be converging on an ideal form. More »



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How One Man Took a Secret Super-Material to His Grave [Science]





In 1990, an amateur inventor called Maurice Ward appeared on British TV demonstrating a super-material he'd invented without any scientific training. Called Starlite, it could withstand temperatures of 100...
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NASA Shot the MESSENGER—Into Orbit, Around the Iron Planet [Monster Machines]





And you thought hitting a thermal exhaust port was tough? Try shooting a 1,000-pound satellite 4.9 billion miles across the solar system into orbit around a planet less than half the size of Earth, and jus...
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Scientists Make Wi-Fi Twenty Times Faster [Science]





If you're never content with Wi-Fi speeds, rest assured that scientists are trying to help. In fact, a team of Japanese researchers has just broken the record for wireless data transmission in the terahert...
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School of Fail: Humanities is Also a Great Way to Not Be Employed



That said, humanities majors like Jeff Goldblum tried to prevent Jurassic Park from happening while those pesky scientists soldiered on.

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The Most Mesmerizing Fluid Dynamics Video You'll Ever See [Video]





Science videos can be difficult to understand, badly produced and and slow-going. Not this one, because really it's just a compilation of cool fluid dynamics phenomena, stitched together into a wonderful,...
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Take-Home HIV Test Approved by FDA in Unanimous Vote Could Prevent Thousands of Transmissions, Annually [Medicine]





If you have sex, you should get tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, on the regular. In reality, not enough of us do—or at least not as frequently as we should. That all might change, now, th...
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Were Prehistoric War Dogs Key To Humanity's Survival? [Science]





Tens of thousands of years ago, humans prevailed over a Neanderthals. A new study suggests that man's best friend might have helped us win the battle. More »



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Air-Conditioned Flak Jackets Could Keep Cops Cool In the Summer [Safety]





Empa, a Swiss materials company, has created an air-conditioned bulletproof vest based on Coolpad technology that could help keep police officers cool in the boiling, brain-melting summer heat. More&nbs...
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Piezoelectric Viruses Produce Electricity in a Pinch [Video]





The problem with current piezoelectric systems is that they're typically made from toxic materials. But boffins at the Berkeley Lab have devised an ingeniously green alternative—current-creating bact...
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Why Women Date Assholes [Science]





It's well known that women find sexy, rebellious rogues attractive. Duh. But until now it's not really been clear why women choose to turn that attraction into long-term relationships, when they know they ...
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Paralyzed Man Can Move Hand Again after Having Nerves 'Rewired' [Medicine]





A 71-year-old man who was paralyzed in a 2008 car accident has regained motor function in his hands thanks to Washington University doctors who rewired his nerves to bypass the damaged ones. Though the pat...
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The World's Oldest Cave Engraving Is a Vagina [Science]





This is a wall engraving from Abri Castanet, a shallow cave in southern France's Vezere valley. It's the oldest known cave etching, probably dating back around 37,000 years—and the researchers claim ...
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How to Safely Eat Fallen Food with the 5-Second Rule [Food]





Who among us hasn't quickly reclaimed a floor cookie when no one was looking? If nobody's seen: it didn't happen and it's not dirty. Well, not quite. More »



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We're Heading Towards a Future Where Brain Scans Replace the SAT [Brains]





Imagine if the extent your natural intelligence could be determined with a simple scan where you'd have to do nothing at all. What if it became the new standard for college admissions. Deterministic as it ...
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Genoeconomics
An interesting piece from the Boston Globe on “genoeconomics”:
Though the name wasn’t coined until 2007, genoeconomics flickered briefly into existence once before. In 1976, the late University of Pennsylvania economist Paul Taubman published ...
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Your Emo Kid Haircut Will Give You a Lazy Eye [Medicine]





Hey you angsty little jerk, listen up! If you can stop rolling your eyes and cut the whole brooding thing for like 10 seconds, I have something very important to tell you: CUT YOUR HAIR. I don't say this a...
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The Cheapest Ways to Save the World [Economics]





Ask a bunch of the world's best economists—including four Nobel laureates—how to make the world a better place, and they don't just blurt out an answer. They take their time, weigh up impact-pe...
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