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Technology That Makes Tumors Touchy-Feel For Surgeons [Health]


What would a tumor feel like? Sadness? Despair? Hope? Surgeons will soon know, thanks to a device invented by Leeds University, England, which lets users judge the cancerous state of tumors, along with the best way to go about treatment. ...
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Can the World's Largest Undersea Observatory Find a Kracken in the Next 25 Years? [Video]






The worst part about exploring the sea floor is that there's water everywhere. It's dark, cold and not terribly compatible with breathing. But with Neptune Canada sprawled along 500 miles of the sea floor...
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Why Do We Judge Some Areas as Being Safer Than Others? [StreetView]






This interesting project, borne from MIT's Media Labs, juxtaposes two images from Google Streetview, and asks subjective questions such as "which place looks safer?" and "which place looks more upper-clas...
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Drinking And Sleeping May Be Bad For Your Health [Science]






A study in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research suggests a before-bed nightcap may be a bad idea if you want to get a good night's sleep. More »






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Here's Why You Suck at Multitasking [Science]






Seriously, you're not the master multitasker you might imagine. No matter how smart you think you are, your brain is not built for doing lots of things at the same time. More »





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Five Little-Known Inventions From Deceased Robot Maker George C. Devol [Science]






George Devol (above right) died last week at his home in Connecticut. He invented the Unimate, the first programmable Industrial Robot. But his creative genius did not stop there. Check out these five lit...
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Why Drinking Purified Poo Water Is So Gross, Even When It Shouldn't Be [Science]






There's a reason you don't drink out of the toilet. It's gross. Even if you got a super toilet that only flushed diamond rain water, it'd still be disgusting. But that's the thing. The only thing keeping ...
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Sunscreen + Caffeine = Skin Cancer Killer? [Cancer]






Caffeine has previously been correlated with a reduced risk of cancer. But the latest research-aided theory coming out of Rutgers University is that putting caffeine into sunscreen will reduce that risk e...
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Everything Scientists Thought They Knew About Cancer Might Be Totally Wrong [Video]






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Itty Bitty Squid Shoot Giant Sperm on She-Squid's Mouth for Reproductive Glory [Science]






It's not fun being a little spear squid. You're small. You're a squid. But—compared to your larger male peers, your jizz is gigantic. And, National Geographic reports, you can sneak up on females an...
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Making Plants Grow in Diaper Membranes Is Gross [Video]






As you can see above, scientists at Japanese firm Mebiol have managed to cultivate plants using only micron-thick hydro-membranes known as Imec. The technology has already been demonstrated by NASA to gr...
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A Back-of-the-Hand Touch Interface That's Perfect for Super Spies [Video]






This "wristwatch" looks clunky as all hell now, but with work it has some formidable applications. It was designed to use the back of your hand as a haptic interface. It's obvious. It was meant for James...
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New Technology Tricks Water Into Thinking Your Ship Isn't There [Science]






We've already seen how future ships can be cloaked against sonar, and maybe someday even space and time. Now researchers say they can cloak the ships' wakes, tricking water itself into acting as though no...
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Party with Gizmodo at the American Museum of Natural History [Meetup]






Going to one of the largest and most dazzling collections of the planet's things, extinct and scurrying, is exciting enough. But going behind closed doors for a private lab tour with brilliant scientists?...
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Leukemia Patients Treated by Gene Therapy. Let's Hope the Cure Doesn't Kill Them This Time. [Science]






On Wednesday scientists announced an exciting new potential cure for leukemia using gene therapy. Yay. Let's hope the test subjects don't get sick and die. Because that's what happened last time. More&...
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What Is This? [Science]






Is this a DIY recreation of a Sarlacc pit? Maybe it's part of a making-of documentary of a famous tub-based shock site. Actually, it does involve body modification, but it's in the service of science, not...
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iPod-Controlled Roaches Dance to Lady GaGa [Science]






The Cooper Union is a private college in Manhattan that offers an internship for students interested in science. This summer the teens studied neuroscience by experimenting with Central American cockroach...
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Researcher Predicts Your Facebook Friends With Frightening Accuracy [Science]






Stanford University's Jure Leskovec knows more about than you think. With the right tools and information, the computer scientist can predict the next person you will friend on Facebook. More &ra...
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Sex Selection Just Got Easier: Will Girls Be the Chosen Ones? [Science]






A new and simple blood test can predict the gender of a fetus after just seven weeks of pregnancy. It's great for predicting gender-related diseases, but the specter of sex selection looms large. More&...
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Abraham Lincoln in The Clouds Above New Brunswick, Canada [Video]






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The Bends: An Excellent Radiohead Album and a Lung-Popping Condition You Do Not Want [Science]






Decompression sickness, also known as the bends, is a bit of a mystery to doctors because it's not easy to study what's happening to human cells at super high pressures far below the sea surface. More&...
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New Drug Can Treat Almost Any Viral Infection by Killing the Body's Infected Cells [Medicine]






A new broad-spectrum treatment for viruses could be as effective as antibiotics fighting bacteria, MIT researchers report. The method uses cells' own defense systems to induce invaded cells to commit suic...
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Using Robot Skin Will Turn Any Forensics Team Into Batmen [Video]






The jelly-like thing you see above is called GelSight. It's a synthetic rubber substance that can measure and visualize even microscopic surfaces, and it promises to revolutionize both forensics and medi...
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New Technique Could Rid Space of Junk in Just 4,000 Years [Science]






The earth's orbit is littered with about 20,000 pieces of space junk measuring four inches or larger. Pieces smaller than that are in the tens of millions, according to NASA. More »

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It's Do or Die Time For The Mach 20 Missile [Science]






DARPA has a plan called Prompt Global Strike that'll knock out any terrorist target within an hour using a remote aircraft. Sounds great, except the first trial of this advanced weapon failed miserably. ...
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CERN Needs YOUR Help to Discover the Elusive God Particle [Science]






CERN are the multi-national keepers of the Large Hadron Collider, which is the most powerful particle accelerator on the planet. But they need your help in their quest to find the Higgs Boson particle, ot...
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What Does Nuclear Radiation Sound Like? [Video]






In reality, radiation emits no sound, or visuals, or smell. But that doesn't mean it can't be interpreted. Axel Boman, a musician and DJ, partnered with KSU, the Swedish safety agency, to develop a music...
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This Drug-Detecting Straw Might Prevent Date Rapes [Science]






Two scientists have developed a sensor that can automatically and accurately detect if date-rape drugs are in your drink. All you have to do is dip the straw in your drink and see if it lights up. More...
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Autocomplete Me: I Thought They Were a Test From The Devil

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Mysterious Minnesota Roadkill Identified [Science]






Found dead in the road, this unusual white creature captured the hearts and mind of Alexandria, Minnesota. Everyone had a theory about the origins of this mysterious animal. More »


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New Rewritable E-Paper Could Someday Save Trees [Science]






Researchers from Taiwan have developed an eco-friendly type of electronic paper. The rewritable i2R e-paper uses heat to store images, isn't backlit and does not consume electricity. More »
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You Could Be Eating Genetically Modified Corn—and Not Even Know It [Food]






Monsanto, the oft-vilified company known for hawking genetically modified seeds and suing farmers, is putting genetically modified sweet corn on supermarket shelves this fall. More »

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Creepy In-Vitro fertilization Using Eggs From a Dead Teenager [Science]






A desperate Israeli family won a court decision that lets them extract and freeze the eggs from their dead daughter. The teenage girl died unexpectedly last week after a car crash. More »
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Oddly Specific: At Least 2 Hydrogens Per Molecule

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The Japanese Tsunami Also Destroyed Part of Antarctica [Video]






On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake rumbled the northeast coast of Japan at a depth of 15.2 miles. The resulting tsunami destroyed everything nearby, but most people thought it never affected ...
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The Double Amputee Sprinter with Carbon Fiber Legs Will Race in the World Championships [Sports]






Oscar Pistorius has two carbon fiber blades for legs. Despite that, he can run 400 meters in 45.07 seconds. And South Africa, his home country, is sending him to the World Championships to compete against...
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The Earth Has a Ring [Science]






Of anti-protons! While it's not as visually cool as what Saturn has going for it, this is still an important development, even if we can't technically "see" the ring with our primitive Earthling eyes. ...
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Archaeologists Believe They've Found Captain Morgan's Shipwreck [Video]






Yes, THAT Captain Morgan. He was real, and he was a real, ruthless pirate. Archaeologists now believe that they've discovered his 440-year-old ship sunk off the coast of Panama. The liquor company even w...
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How Ordinary Girl Scout Cookies Can Be Morphed Into Incredible Graphene [Science]






Next time you're inhaling an entire box of Girl Scout shortbread cookies, just think of the potential you're wasting: a full $15 billion worth of graphene. At least, that's the estimate given by a team of...
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Your Facebook Photos Can Identify You In Real Life [Facebook]






Well, this is scary. Researchers have created software that uses public information to ID basically anybody just walking down the street. Stalkers, rejoice. Everyone else, time to find a comfortable mask...
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9 Laboratories That Created the Modern World [Science]






Sure Frankenstein's lab had that green guy and Dr. Weird's housed a gigantic mecha-bunny but these labs! These lairs of some of sciences greatest minds have given the world electricity, television, the In...
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The Aroma Lid Makes Your Coffee Smell and Taste Great [Science]






Coffee from your favorite donut shop has a problem. It doesn't taste as good as it should because the lid traps in the wonderful aroma. Taste is 95% smell, so you're really missing out. More &raqu...
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How America Battled Communism by Blasting Insects Full of DDT [Medicine]






The history of mankind's battle against malaria has been long and largely ineffectual. The Fever looks at the rise of DDT in post-WWII America. More »






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These Men Were Caught Building Homemade Nuclear Reactors [Science]






Richard Handl, was arrested by the Swedish police for the possession of nuclear material including radium, americium, and uranium. The inquisitive man was creating a nuclear reactor to see if it's possibl...
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Diver of Course Gets Bitten After Trying to French Kiss a Shark [Video]






Dave Marcel is an experienced deep-sea diver and shark lover. On routine diving tours, he likes to attract the generally-docile nurse shark over, and invites people to give them hugs and kisses. Aww. Onl...
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Stress During Pregnancy Could Age Your Offspring [Science]






Here's yet another reason to pamper those pregnant ladies in your life. A new study from UC Irvine suggests stress during pregnancy may prematurely age the baby's cells. More »





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