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(video)Buzz Kill: The World Is Not Gonna End This Year
Newly uncovered hieroglyphs support the idea that the Mayans had a recycling calendar, rather tha... (video)
May 11, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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(video)One Laptop Per Child and Epic Screens
Mary Lou Jepsen is the founder and CEO of Pixel Qi Corporation, a manufacturer of low-cost, low-p... (video)
May 10, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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Science Can't Be Trusted
If science can’t trust itself, how can researchers expect the already-fickle public to care...
May 09, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Nature Adapts to the Most Awful Shit
Motherboard covered fairly recently the evolved mating strategy of male bed bugs, which involves ...
May 09, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Humans Were Performing Brain Surgery 10,000 Years Ago
Our brains are a real mystery. Ignoring the Terminal Man era quandary of whether or not our brain...
May 09, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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The Best Clock In the Universe Is Made of Pure Light
What is a second? You could do the whole “one one thousand” thing and not be terribly...
May 08, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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How the Descriptive Camera Out Instagrams Instagram
Wandering the back halls of the internet — all flickering lights, discarded furniture, and ...
May 05, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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(video)MBTV: Doctor Teller's Strange Loves
Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them big... (video)
Mar 07, 2012
by Alex_Pasternack
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Newly-Discovered Lizards Are Rad, But Also Probably Extinct
In the largest batch of species discovery since the early 1800s, a team of researchers from Penn ...
May 02, 2012
by Lara_Heintz
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Congressmen Support Science with the Golden Goose Award
With the budget fight proving to be one of the most bitter, hyperbolic, government-stopping battl...
May 01, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Fun Fact: Killing Zombie Nazis Is Good For Your Brain
A new study out of the University of Toronto shows that first-person-shooter (FPS) action video g...
Apr 29, 2012
by Sam_McDougle
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Nothing In Nature Outchomps the Rat (and Why We Care)
First, why we care. The short answer is that they won. Rats, in terms of evolution, are kings. Th...
Apr 28, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Genomes On a Bus
While no one told me to “step right up,” I’m pretty sure I just saw a traveling medicine show in ...
Apr 26, 2012
by Ben_Richmond
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Understand That Vitamin Supplements Are Generally Not Good
Here is a thing you might not have known: bombing your body with antioxidants is almost certainly...
Apr 25, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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Cocaine Makes Your Brain Age and Die Really Fast
One of the many things that the drug cocaine is really good at is wasting time. For the low, low ...
Apr 24, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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My Handwriting Is Dead and I Don't Even Care
The last thing I wrote out in handwriting for another human was I don’t know. I’ve fi...
Apr 19, 2012
by Michael_Byrne
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The Next Massive Oil Spill Will Be Cleaned With Sound
This week marks the two year anniversary of BP’s megalithic oil spill debacle. Unlike the s...
Apr 18, 2012
by Lara_Heintz
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The Wolf in Electromagnetic Clothing
Invisibility is one of the oldest concepts in our mythology. Years before Harry Potter put on his...
Apr 18, 2012
by Zak_Kiernan
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Ditch the Electrical Umbilical
For those of you keeping track at home, this is apparently the sort of electro-intestinal carnage...
Apr 18, 2012
by Trevor_Macomber
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(video)Motherboard TV: The Energy Fixers
“The Energy Fixers,” a documentary on two pathbreaking projects kickstarted by ARPA-e... (video)
Apr 18, 2012
by Derek_Mead
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Cure Drug Addiction by Watching Videos of Drugs
Memories aren’t immutable, recalled moments from your past just sitting on the dusty shelves of y...
Apr 17, 2012
by Kelly_Bourdet
