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Meet the Small Army Gearing Up to Hunt Gravitational Waves
Here's a trippy thought: some enormous cosmic event takes place halfway across the universe, two neutron stars colliding or a black hole sucking, punching the fabric of space-time so hard that it...
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The White House Is Convening an Emergency Meeting to Prepare for the Arctic...
Image: NASA Some of the most terrifying conversations on the planet probably take place in closed-door meetings at the White House: Hush-hush chats about drone strikes on American soil, or about how...
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Mexican Drug Cartels Are Operating in All But 12 States
If I had to make a list of things that I'm mortally afraid of, bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels are pretty high up on the list, sandwiched somewhere between tornadoes and John Stamos. Violence...
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In 1897, a Bicycle Superhighway Was the Future of California Transit
Image: Wikimedia Commons In 1897, a wealthy American businessman named Horace Dobbins began construction on a private, for-profit bicycle superhighway from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles. It may...
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This 3D-Printed Ear Is Part of a Much Bigger Cyborg Operation
Image credit: Frank Wojciechowski/Princeton A team of mad scientists hiding an ivory tower successfully 3D-printed a bionic ear that can restore the sense of hearing for the deaf. The ear's shaped...
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New NASA Tech Fights Against Water Uncertainty, But How Much Can It Know?
Spring, at least the part of spring that matters the most in the western U.S., happened very suddenly here in southwestern Colorado. It had been on and off warm since mid-February, with the daytime...
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Future Cockpits Will Be Giant Smartphones
Take a tour of the future's cockpit. Scandinavian Airlines flight 751 took off from Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport into wintery skies on December 27, 1991. During the climb, clear ice on the airplane’s...
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War Photographer David Guttenfelder Explains His Award-Winning Photos of...
Photographer David Guttenfelder has spent years documenting North Korean life in a fashion far more immersive than the usual shots of soldier staredowns at the DMZ and puff photos of Kim Jong-un....
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The US Leaving Afghanistan Means More Heroin in Russia
A member of the New York Army National Guard stands in an opium field with his interpreter. Via New York Army National Guard The US has spent more than a decade battling the Taliban in Afghanistan,...
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Bring On the Living Coal Plants
Image: AZPA There are currently plans afoot in Germany to wrap an ugly, industrial behemoth of a coal plant in gorgeous "living walls"—the kind of green, vine-covered surfaces that are en vogue in the...
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The Flaming Lips Made the Best Nudist Sci-Fi Music Video
This originally appeared on VICE, and is, obviously, very NSFW. The Flaming Lips have been a lot of different things over the years. Their newest album, The Terror, shows the band moving even further...
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A Working Bitcoin ATM Is in San Diego, But Its Most Vocal Backer Is Gone
Image via BitcoinATM Behold: The world's first bitcoin ATM was set up for a press day in a ballroom at some hotel in San Diego. Local San Diego news outlet ABC10 wouldn't allow video embedding from...
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A Russian Bird Conservation Group Has Been Labeled "Foreign Agents"
Image of cranes via Wikipedia The Russian government recently passed a series of laws concerning NGOs that require them to disclose if they have any foreign funding or political aims, upon which...
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The World's Smallest Robot Is a Drone
Image via Harvard A team of Harvard scientists just announced a very exciting breakthrough, well summed up in the paper they just published in Science: "Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired,...
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Watch This Falcon Nab Duck, Confirm Nature's Pitilessness
Dora, the star of this video, is a peregrine falcon. So it's the least bit surprising to see her picking off some poor duck who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. It's one of the...
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Geocaching Has Proudly Brought Nerds and Hiking Together for 13 Years Now
Image via Flickr The free-school I attended in Seattle has to be one of the only schools that ever offered geocaching as a class, but I had little interest in the nerd-sport as a teenager. Now,...
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Despite Skepticism, Cody Wilson Successfully 3D-Printed an Entire Gun
Image by Michael Thad Carter / Forbes A month ago when Motherboard released Click, Print, Gun, a documentary about Cody Wilson and his quest to build a 3D-printed gun, plenty of people doubted this...
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Tim Hetherington Was Not Interested in Photography Per Se
Filmmaker Sebastian Junger On the Fearless Photojournalist. Courtesy of HBO There’s a moment in Which Way Is the Front Line from Here, Sebastian Junger’s excellent new documentary about the life of...
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Wyoming's Lithium Jackpot Will Help Us Build the Batteries of the Future
Image: University of Wyoming One of the technological advances we most desperately need to see over the next couple of years is kind of boring: We need to build a better battery. And stat. Now, the...
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'Star Wars' Is Getting a Navajo Makeover
Image: Gordon Tarpley Auditions begin today for voice actors tasked with imbuing Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the rest of the original Star Wars ensemble with the Navajo tongue. That's...
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