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The Solar Power Eye Implant Which Restores Sight [Science]





Electronic implants which restore sight to the blind aren't anything new, but one of their major stumbling blocks has been the need for an external power source. Now, that's about to change, because a team...
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How One Infinity Can Be Bigger Than Another [Video]





Infinity is a pretty difficult concept for us to grasp. The world we live in is full of limitations, so the idea that something can go on and on, forever and ever, doesn't come naturally to us. And to mak...
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Can Children Ever Be Diagnosed as Psychopaths? [Science]





All children play up from time to time, but deep-down, some are incredibly badly behaved. While it's easy enough to spot them in the playground, researchers are struggling to come to terms with whether it'...
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A Water Droplet and a Space Station Are the Ultimate Way To Visualize Sound [Video]





You might think the trippy animated visualizations in your media player are the best way to see your music. But astronaut Don Pettit has found a better way—and all it requires is a small set of spea...
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A Fat Breakfast Will Hit Your Hips in Three Hours [Health]





Fancy a big breakfast? Think again: scientists have shown that the fat content will go straight to your hips in no time at all. More »



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Genoeconomics
Here is one paragraph of an interesting-but-treads-quite-lightly story about what is possibly a new field of economics:
To talk to the genoeconomists about their vision for the field is to listen to people acutely reluctant to overpromise, or to come off ...
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Truly Awesome Picture Perfectly Shows How Little Water There Is On Earth [Science]





This is one amazing visualization by the U.S. Geological Survey: a picture that gives you a perfect idea of how much water there is on Earth compared to the solid materials that form its main body. It's tr...
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It Seems That Aliens Are Living Under the White Sea [Nature]





The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea, in the northwest coast of Russia. Its waters are cold and apparently devoid of life—until you do deep and discover an alien world full of colorful creatu...
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Why Do You Spill Coffee While Walking and How You Can Stop It From Happening [Science]





Scientists from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, thought it would be a great idea to investigate why the hell we spill coffee every time we walk carr...
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This Man Must Be the Saddest Scientist In the World [Science]





This is Professor John Mainstone, from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. He's the custodian of the longest running science experiment in the history of the world. He also must be the sad...
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Quantum Object Teleported 100 Kilometers by Chinese Scientists [Physics]





Though quantum teleportation has existed for well over 10 years, it has never actually happened at a distance that would be of any use to people in the real world. But for the first time, Chinese researche...
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A Large Hadron Collider Would Be Easy to Build If Ikea Made It [Image Cache]





So why exactly did CERN spend billions and billions of dollars building the Large Hadron Collider when Ikea sells a perfectly good alternative, the Hädrönn Cjölidder, for considerably less cash? Sure, its ...
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Your Alarm Clock Could Be Making You Fat [Science]





People make all kinds of excuses for being a little overweight. But a new study suggests that tensions between our biological clocks and enforced working hours could be making us all pile on the pounds. ...
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Dirt-Cheap Touchscreen Tech Means They'll Be Everywhere Soon [Science]





You can operate your tablet and your smartphone by touch, but what if you could do the same with say, nutritional labels or price tags? More »



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How an Oxford Professor Turned Roulette Odds in His Favor [Gambling]





If you're gonna cheat, cheat smart. Like an Oxford math professor, who has revealed how he used the world's first wearable computer to beat the roulette tables of Las Vegas back in the 1970s. More ...
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Can Siri Find a Cure for Cancer? [Video]





Can Siri help you find a cure for cancer? As it stands, this is a bit beyond the skills of the talking virtual assistant on Apple's iPhone. But British Telecom is putting her through a kind of biomedical t...
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Obese Mothers Give Birth to Less Intelligent Children [Science]





Not all people are born equal. In fact, new research suggests that if a child is born from an obese mother, it is likely to have significantly lower cognitive function compared to a child from a mother of ...
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You Shouldn't Put Water on Your Cereal, Says Science [Food]





Researchers from Pontificia University Católica in Santiago, Chile, have determined with cold hard science that milk is definitively superior to water, as far as cereal liquids go. More »
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We May Absorb 60 Dark Matter Particles an Hour [Space]





WIMPs (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles) are a theoretical class of matter that are suspected of being the elusive "dark matter" that presumably constitutes 80 percent of the Universe. A new study by U...
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The Seven Weirdest Creatures Under the Sea [Video]





If you're looking for a good fright, forget about going to see a horror movie, or wandering through a cemetery in the middle of the night. Just flip on the National Geographic channel and find yourself a g...
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Bigger Words Make Emotions More Intense [Science]






Scientists have shown that words printed in larger font sizes elicit a stronger emotional response.
A report, published in PLoS ONE, has show that reading all kinds of words—positive, neutral, or n...
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Like Snowflakes, No Two Of These Complex Fractal Puzzles Are Completely Alike [Games]





The whole 3D phase gave puzzles a bit of a temporary renaissance, but a Boston-based design shop called Nervous System hopes to revive them yet again with a unique twist. And 'unique' is the key word here ...
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Plastic Grocery Bags Can Give You the Flu [Science]





The plastic sacks you get at the supermarket are great for carrying your lunch, but they're also good for transmitting the stomach flu virus. More »



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Texas Surgeons Are Live-Tweeting Brain Surgery Right Now [Medicine]





Dr Dong Kim, the surgeon who treated congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in 2011, is currently removing a brain tumor from one of his patients. That's fairly normal. However, to...
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Dwarf Mammoths Used to Inhabit the Island of Crete [Animals]





The smallest mammoth ever known to have existed has been confirmed to have lived on the island of Crete—and scientists believe that it was an adult which had evolved into a dwarf species of the giant...
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Electric Food Tricks Your Taste Buds [Video]





In an experiment conducted at the Computer Human Interaction conference, in Austin, Texas, a group of researches added electricity to different foods and beverages, to see how the added charge might manipu...
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One in Six Cancers Are Caused By Treatable Infections [Medicine]





Cancer is a scourge on our society and, while scientists continue to work on treatments, many people view it as an inevitable truth. New research, however, suggests that as many as one in six cases of canc...
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The economics of geoengineering
“The odd thing here is that this is a democratizing technology,’’ Nathan Myhrvold told me. “Rich, powerful countries might have invented much of it, but it will be there for anyone to use. People get themselves all balled up into knots over whether this c...
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Alert: It Is Utterly Unsafe To Fly If You're Fat [Travel]





Listen here, America: Stop double-fisting those Quarter Pounders and go for a run. Otherwise, you might never get to do some amazing things—like taking an elevator to the top of the Eiffel Tower in P...
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We Brag Because It Feels as Good as Sex [Science]





It often seems like a lot of people sure love talking about themselves. But now scientists are working out why we love to brag, and it turns out it's not really our fault: talking about yourself provides t...
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Badass Paralyzed Woman Finishes London Marathon in a Bionic Suit [Inspiration]





After 16 days of an agonizingly slow process, a paralyzed woman has become the first person to complete a marathon in a bionic suit. Talk about an inspiration. More »



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This Intensive Care Art Installation Thinks It's Alive [Video]





While many artworks might require you sell an organ to afford them, at least with this one you could survive: The Immortal is an installation made up of life-support machines, designed to makes us contemp...
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Sunscreen Could Be Giving You Skin Cancer [Science]





If it's not one thing, it's another. While everybody knows that too much time in the sun massively increases the chances of developing skin cancer, new research suggests that a compound found in most sunsc...
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An Amazing Vintage Video About the World's First Accurate Atomic Clock [Video]





This short video, made at the UK's National Physical Laboratory, proudly explains the science behind the world's first accurate atomic clock. It was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physi...
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You Won't Believe This See-Through Clear Caterpillar Isn't CG [Insects]





At first we couldn't believe this amazing crystal clear caterpillar wasn't a render from some art student's DeviantArt gallery. But after scrutinizing the shots in Photoshop, and digging around online, it ...
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This Simple Test Can Tell If You're a Facebook Addict [Facebook]





Cold sweats. Shortness of breath. Inability to concentrate. You've got withdrawal symptoms, and you've got them bad. There's only one thing that can help, and that's a long, hard hit of the blue stuff: swe...
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Unbelievable Assassin Bug Wears Its Victims' Corpses as Armor [Insects]





Like a real-life version of the Predator—that's barely a half-inch in size—the aptly named assassin bug wears the bodies of its victims like trophy armor after liquefying and consuming their in...
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Did Scientists Really Just Break the Speed of Light? [Science]





Today, you might read that scientists have developed a way to produce faster-than-light travel. But steady, there: we've been burnt once recently, so let's not let it happen again. Did scientists really ma...
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Why You're Biologically Inclined to Spill Your Coffee [Science]





Sometimes it feels like spilling coffee from your mug is inevitable. In fact, it turns out that hunch might be correct: scientists have shown that humans are biologically built to spill. More &raqu...
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Dinosaur Flatulence Caused Jurassic Climate Change [Science]





A lot of dinosaurs were big eating machines. Now, scientists have calculated how much gas they would have expelled as a result of their digestion—and the quantities they produced probably meant that ...
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Because God Loves Rocket Science!



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Party-Pooping Scientists Want To Make Air Shows Less Awesome With Jet Engine-Quieting Sponges [Science]





Dammit science. For all the good you do, you can be a real Debbie Downer sometimes. We like it when you cure diseases and invent awesome new materials like silicene, but when you take away the mighty roar ...
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The Incredible Story of the Blind Dog With His Own Guide Dog [Video]





Tanner is a blind golden retriever whose life almost ended when his owner died. Blair is a black mutt who got shot and used to live in fear. Then they found each other, became best buddies and solved the...
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Even Babies Are a Little Racist [Science]





While there are no shortage of studies that suggest adults are less able to recognise individuals of different races to themselves, the latest is actually interesting: babies as young as nine months old ar...
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Researcher Killed By Deadly Bacteria He Was Working With [Science]





A young researcher from San Francisco has died after being infected by a highly virulent strain of meningococcal disease he was studying—and there are fears that it could spread. More »...
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This Is Not Fancy Camerawork, Just Likely the World's Biggest Crustacean [Wtf]





Say hello to Claude, the Tasmanian Monster Crab, who was recently caught off the coast of Tasmania. Originally destined to become crab cakes (approx 162 of them), a British aquarium bought his freedom for ...
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Love of Pork May Be Genetic, Says Study [Genetics]





A group of researchers from Duke University Medical Center, Monell Chemical Senses Center and three Norwegian institutions have published the results of a study which they believe may shows a genetic predi...
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The First Assassinated Man In History Was Killed By an Arrow 5300 Years Ago [Science]





A new report published in The Journal of Royal Society's Interface has confirmed that the first assassinated man in history was killed by an arrow, shot into his back, 5,300 years ago. According to the pap...
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What Would Happen If You Put Your Hand in the LHC's Beam? [Video]





A while back, Sixty Symbols asked a bunch of physicists what they thought would happen if you were to place your hand in the particle beam at the LHC and... none of them knew. Now they've done some diggin...
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Emotion Is Reversed in Left Handers [Science]





Psychologists have always assumed that the way emotions are organized in the brain is the same for all of us. But now, a new study suggests that left-handers process emotion in the opposite side of the bra...
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