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Google Science Journal App Helps You Conduct Basic Experiments: Research Engine

Smartphones and tablets are packed with sensors. Normally they’re used by apps or the phone itself, but now Android users can take advantage of their mobile device’s light sensor, microphone and accelerometer to gather and record…

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Bento Lab Portable DNA Laboratory: Packed Life

Bento Bioworks claims it has created a compact and relatively affordable device that incorporates the machines you’ll need to prepare and analyze DNA samples on the go. The Bento Lab is meant for professionals and enthusiasts,…

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ISS Astronaut Blows a Space Bubble

Astronauts on the International Space Station get up to some cool experiment. Sometimes these experiments have limited scientific value, but look really cool. Take this video from the ISS shot with a fancy RED 4K camera.…

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Eye Drops that Give Night Vision: Ask Your Doctor About Splinter Cell

A few years ago we learned of rumors about contact lenses that gave the wearer night vision. But a better solution may have been around doctors for years all along. Independent research team Science for the…

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Extracting Faces from Eye Reflections in Photographs: Zoom in and Enhance

From Blade Runner to CSI, popular fiction often stretches the capabilities of photography in the service of plot. But technology has a way of catching up. Last year, psychologists Rob Jenkins and Christie Kerr were able…

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An Amazing/Insane Father Made His Son Play Through Video Game History

Most people who start playing video games do so with whatever is trending at the time that they start. Same goes for other forms of entertainment as well. I’d wager that no music listeners began their…

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Karen App Really Wants to Be Your Friend: Overly Attached App

Even if you use the Internet only casually – thanks for spending time here! – chances are several companies have gathered a bit of data about you, or at least your online habits. These trawlers range…

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Facebook Toys with Users’ Emotions in Online Social Experiment

Facebook is the largest social network out there and has hundreds of millions of users around the world. Something you might not know is that by using the social network, you are allowing them to mess…

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SocialPlanes: Paper Planes to Physically Send Social Media Messages

The weird thing about social media is that it’s not really that social in the personal sense. Sure, you can connect and message with friends and acquaintances, whenever and wherever they might be. But if you’re…

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Social Media Experiment Freaks People out, Exposes Lack of Privacy

When posting online, how much personal information is too much? A lot of people post statuses, pictures, and videos on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram that often reveal more than they intend to. For…

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Japan Uses Robot Rats to Terrorize Real Rats

Lab rats have it bad enough having to jump through hoops and perform in order to be studied, but now life just got worse for the furry rodents. Scientists at Japan’s Waseda University have created a…

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Blogger Asks People to Slap Him Silly Whenever He Logs on to Social Networks

How do you get over an addiction? Some people check into rehab, others go cold turkey, while others resort to hiring people off Craigslist to slap themselves out of it. The first two seem like typical…

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NAO Robots Programmed to Collaborate: Next Up, Forming a Giant Super NAO Robot

If robots and humans are to work together, we need to destroy all copies of The Matrix, The Terminator and other media portraying robotic uprising. That’s the first thing we should do. Only after we have…

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DARPA Suppresses Fire with Magic Wand

There are lots of ways to put out a fire, but most of them require some way to actually spray or douse the flames with the suppressant. This can cause problems in small or obstructed spaces.…

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Myth Confirmed: Mythbusters Shoot Cannonball Through Home

Jamie and Adam have some explaining to do. While trying to bust their latest myth, they sent a cannonball through someone’s home in Dublin, California. This marks the first time that they have been busted before…

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Robot Made to Move Human Arm: You Are the Controlled

You read that right. My dream of piloting giant mecha before I die just got turned on its head. A research team at French institute Montpellier Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics has invented a system…

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Google Science Journal App Helps You Conduct Basic Experiments: Research Engine

Bento Lab Portable DNA Laboratory: Packed Life

ISS Astronaut Blows a Space Bubble

Eye Drops that Give Night Vision: Ask Your Doctor About Splinter Cell

Extracting Faces from Eye Reflections in Photographs: Zoom in and Enhance

An Amazing/Insane Father Made His Son Play Through Video Game History

Karen App Really Wants to Be Your Friend: Overly Attached App

Facebook Toys with Users’ Emotions in Online Social Experiment

SocialPlanes: Paper Planes to Physically Send Social Media Messages

Social Media Experiment Freaks People out, Exposes Lack of Privacy

Japan Uses Robot Rats to Terrorize Real Rats

Blogger Asks People to Slap Him Silly Whenever He Logs on to Social Networks

NAO Robots Programmed to Collaborate: Next Up, Forming a Giant Super NAO Robot

DARPA Suppresses Fire with Magic Wand

Myth Confirmed: Mythbusters Shoot Cannonball Through Home

Robot Made to Move Human Arm: You Are the Controlled

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