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Archaeologists Now Use Kinect to Build 3-D Models During Digs [Kinect]






University of California, San Diego students will be going to Jordan soon to take part in an archaeological dig that's decidely futuristic: As they uncover artifacts and structures in the soil, they'll be...
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Man Enters Hospital with Stomach Pains and Leaves with a Hysterectomy [Science]






Stop me if you've heard this one: an Indian farmer goes to the hospital and says "Doc, I've got this horrible pain in my stomach." And then the doctors operate and find "a female uterus, ovaries, Fallopia...
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Aw, Someone Strapped Little GPS Backpacks Onto Toucans In the Name of Science [Science]






Just be thankful that no-one's relying on these GPS-enabled toucans for directions; I hear they don't even get live traffic updates, if you can imagine. Instead, researchers are tracking the toucans and t...
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Portable Anthrax Detector Identifies Spores In Under An Hour [Science]






It's been almost 10 years since the anthrax attacks which killed five people and infected 17 others, but finally we have a legit way to detect the spores—and potentially dozens more pathogens like s...
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How Driving On the Moon Made Us Care About Space Again [Video]






Back in 1969, the Apollo 11 mission put mankind on the moon. It was a massive accomplishment. Two years later, though, people were getting bored. 40 years ago today, it become the moon buggy's job to ma...
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Nanodelivery Patches Are the Newest Way to Get Your Synthetic Boner On [Science]






Man's eternal quest for faster and ever-more efficient ways to shoot blood into his penis has taken a step into the 21st century. We're now using nanotechnology to churn out our boners, thanks to an Egypt...
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MIT Creates Sun-free Photovoltaic Power, Hammers Another Nail Into Lithium-ion's Coffin [Science]






Oh MIT, we can always count on you to come up with the most clever, little inventions. Just the other day you created goo-powered batteries to replace lithium-ion and now you've gone and found a way to ma...
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How Chaos Really Works [Video]






According to this explanation, the butterfly effect used to explain chaos theory is just a big exaggeration. Watch the video for a much better understanding of how it works and why we can't predict the o...
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Sneaky Subs Are Going Wakeless Thanks to Underwater Cloaking [Science]






If The Hunt for Red October taught us anything (besides the fact that Sean Connery makes for a horrible Russian) it's that submarines can be tracked by the sounds they make moving through the water. Well,...
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Wavegarden Engineers the Perfect Wave [Science]






Traditional surf pools force large quantities of water over a hump to create their swells. Problem is, waves fall apart the further they travel, making for a less-than-gnarly curl. So the Wavegarden build...
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Even Gravestones Get The Laser Treatment [Science]






From medicine to the military, lasers have infiltrated almost every part of our existence, including death. More »






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Drug Could Let The Hereditary Blind See [Science]






There's a terrible hereditary eye disease called Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy that affects men in their twenties. It's a mitochondrial disease inherited from your mother that leads to total blindne...
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The Best Birth Control Is a Tiny Piece of Plastic Lodged Inside Your Uterus [Science]






What's the most aggravating form of birth control? Taking a pill every day for most of your young adulthood or inserting a spindly plastic thingy—otherwise known as an intrauterine device—in y...
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Artificial Intelligence Created Using Human DNA [Science]






A team at Caltech has developed an artificial neural network from human DNA molecules. Yup, we used a bit of ourselves to create artificial intelligence. I think I know how this story ends. More &...
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Mad Scientists Have Created a Glow in the Dark Dog [Wtf]






For some reason, crazy scientists from South Korea have created a dog that glows in the dark. Seriously. The beagle, named Tegon, was cloned and genetically modified so it lights up when you put it under ...
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New Liquid Biomaterial Can Rebuild Faces Without Surgery [Science]






Doctors are testing a new liquid polymer that can be injected under the skin, molded and sculpted, then set in place with a LED array. Ultimately intended for use around the face, it sounds like a plastic...
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Scientists Striving to Create Life Out of Nothing [Science]






It doesn't get more science fictional (or pseudo-scientific) than creating life out of thin air, right? Not true, says a group of researchers who say the key to cooking up new organisms in a lab isn't far...
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The Gear Behind NASA's Cool-Looking Space Cameras [Science]






When NASA's astronauts go on a spacewalk, they often carry a space camera for those memorable moments. Think they use some fancy gear developed in a secret NASA lab? Think again. More »
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Latest Study Says Cellphones Don't Cause Cancer [Science]






The latest volley in the never-ending discussion on cell phone-related cancer clears our beloved phones of any role in brain tumors, at least those found in children and teenagers. More »
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Are Cancers Actually a Newly Evolved Parasitic Species? [Science]






Cancer patients may feel like they have alien creatures growing inside their bodies, robbing them of health and vigor. According to one cell biologist, they're exactly right. The formation of cancers is r...
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Scientists Say Earth Killed Her Beloved Dinosaurs With Oceans of Lava [Science]






It wasn't just an asteroid come down from the heavens to destroy the former masters of the planet. No. Our Earth Mother knew their time had come, and unleashed oceans of lava to scorch the lands that dino...
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Freaky Algorithm Can Look at Your Twitter and Tell If You're a Dude or a Lady [Twitter]






Though a bit odd, it's not unheard of for a guy to pretend to be a girl—or vice versa—on the internet. But researchersdeveloped a new algorithm which analyzes the content of tweets and predict...
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Farmers Seriously Need Diamond-Covered Plows [Science]






How else will they keep their swag up? Well, no. Rather, covering plowshares with diamond-hard carbon would actually do a number of cool things for farmers. It's even better on the environment. More&nb...
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These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely of Ice [Image Cache]






Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson—two veteran National Geographic photographers who have been married for 28 years—have captured this beautifully surreal image of waterfalls fully made of ice....
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Translating Ancient Egyptian Texts Just Went Social [Science]






You know you wanna be like Indiana Jones, unlocking the secrets of ancient manuscripts. Well, that shit is hard. But the Egypt Exploration Society and Oxford University are giving you the chance by upload...
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New Digital Maps Let Historians See Through the Eyes of General Lee [Science]






Some of America's biggest historical events, like Gettysburg or the Dust Bowl, are also some of the most complex—and rife with contradicting accounts. A new digital mapping system aims to apply Goog...
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Judge Gives Embryonic Stem Cell Research the Green Light [Science]






U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth just ruled that funding for embryonic stem cell research doesn't violate federal law, clearing the way for more study. This is huge news for doctors, patients, and Presi...
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A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Coming Soon [Medicine]






The thing about the flu is that there's a lot of different strains. One flu season is different from the other and each one requires a new shot. That could change! Doctors believe we'll develop a universa...
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NASA Visualization Explorer App Brings Science To Your iPad [Apps]






When you say NASA, people think Space Shuttle. But NASA does so much more. The agency studies topics ranging from astrophysics to climate change. It also has a new iPad app that details these diverse rese...
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Software Can Detect Fake Reviews With 90% Accuracy [Science]






Don't you hate reading product reviews? You don't know which ones are real and which ones are fake. It's so hard to tell them apart that we need an algorithm to help us says a team of Cornell researchers....
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Scientists in Sugar Shock After Finding Sucrose Doesn't Melt [Science]






Researchers and confectioners alike have known for years about sugar's finicky melting point, but have always attributed it to either impurities or their equipment. University of Illinois scientists, howe...
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New Tests Spot Suspect Scotch [Booze]






The whiskey business in Scotland is a £800 million/year industry. With that much money flowing, knockoff brands are pervasive. But a newly developed test can rapidly and accurately tell real scotch from f...
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Scientists Ruin Science Fiction by Proving Time Travel Is Impossible [Science]






Science decided to be unfun this morning. Physicists at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology demonstrated that a single photon cannot be accelerated beyond the speed of light. This implies that ...
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NASA's Space Shuttles Helped Advance Salmonella Vaccine Research [Video]






Having suffered Salmonella poisoning before, I can definitively say it is not fun. And that's why I'm pleased to hear that research on Salmonella and MSRA vaccines has been helped along by the now-defunc...
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The UK Would Deprive Us Our Manimals [Science]






The UK Academy of Medical Sciences is singlehandedly protecting us from a future of subservience to hyper-intelligent animal-human hybrids that will inevitably band together and usurp humanity from its se...
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These Australian Waterfalls Are Running Upwards [Video]






Winds are now so strong on the southern coast of Australia—74.5mph (120km/h)—that waterfalls are running upwards. The water is just being blown up from the bottom. The situation's crazy, espe...
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That Noise Might Be a 40-Foot Sinkhole Opening Under Your Bed [Science]






The world is trying to swallow Guatemala, one terrifying sinkhole at a time. The latest occurrence woke 65-year-old Inocenta Hernandez, making her think there'd been a car crash outside. There wasn't. The...
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A Sure-Fire Way To Win At Rock, Paper, Scissors [Science]






Rock, paper, scissors … shoot. We've all played the game as a child and an adult, but did you know there's an easy way to increase your odds of winning. All you have to do is close your eyes. More ...
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Scientists Genetically Engineer Mice With Super Endurance [Science]






How do you build a mouse that can run six-times farther than its average bretheren? Take away all its fast-twitch muscle fiber, along with its ability to contract its muscles. More »

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Reduce, Reuse and Recycle Your Way To a Faster Computer [Science]






Bet you didn't know that half the files on your computer have not been used since the day they were created. And the answer to getting rid of them efficiently can be found in your garbage can. More&nbs...
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Stainless Steel Just Earned the Germ-Free Achievement [Science]






Researchers at the University of Birmingham have successfully managed to create antibacterial stainless steel. By introducing silver, nitrogen, and carbon to the surface of the metal, it not only wards of...
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Are You Jogging Drunk? [Video]






This teeny, wearable blood flow sensor claims to be able to measure circulation even while you're moving. Most sensors require you to sit still, but with this, doctors can keep track of your condition wh...
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Why You're So Spooked by the Uncanny Valley [Science]






We've all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It's that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that's so close to looking human that it seems almost spooky. Mo...
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Woman Grows Full Size Nipple On Foot [Wtf]






Researchers have found a 22-year-old woman with a full grown nipple on her foot. I don't know if a foot nipple is considered not safe for work, but I'm getting a strange tingling sensation thinking about ...
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Other Cleantech News of the Week
Other cleantech news from around from the past week or so, stuff that didn’t seem fit into my other five categories too well — politics, solar energy, wind energy, transportation, and energy efficiency. Enjoy!!Clean Energy, in GeneralPower Gen...
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You Can Get a New Penis Made from Your Thigh if You Misplace Yours [Science]






It's the singular thought that's been on every man's mind for the past few days: What if it was me? What would happen if my wife cut my penis off and threw it away? Now we know. Doctors would graft muscle...
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Would You Eat Jello Made From Humans? [Science]






I have an on/off relationship with gelatin as is, but human-derived gelatin? Ugh, someone pass me the agar-agar, please. Scientists are exploring this closer-to-home substitute to rule out possible infect...
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Flexible Gel Could Bestow The Gift Of Voice [Video]






This is not some weirdo photography of a female body part. It's actually an artificial vocal cord created by a group of scientists over at MIT. More »






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Computers Read The Manual To Beat You at Games [Science]






The latest crop of game-playing computers have an ace up their sleeve that helps them dominate in games like Civilization. It's not some secretive backdoor tactic that helps them win. These computers can ...
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