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Recycled Newspapers Could Be Tomorrow’s Fuel

A lot of time and resources have been devoted to finding an alternative means of fuel, since the world is fast running out of fossil fuels. Some say that we’re already past peak oil, while others…

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Researchers Implant Glowing Sensor to Detect Blood Sugar in Mouse

First off, no that isn’t some sort of deformed penis with the world’s tiniest testicles in the photo below. Get your mind out of the gutter. It’s a bald mouse that a team of researchers from…

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EES Packs Circuits Onto Skin: Beginning of the Modern Cyborg

There’s a new process called EES (Electrical Epidermal System) which allows scientists to apply circuits and electrical components directly to skin, which could be big news for medical sensors, but it could also potentially lead to…

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Now Grown-Ups Can Go Rock-A-Bye Baby in These Adult Cradles

Don’t you ever wonder how come most children’s nursery rhymes end in some sort of tragedy? There was Jack who broke his crown, and Humpty Dumpty who fell apart because he had a great fall. Then…

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Scientists Create Stainless Steel That Resists Bacteria and Lasts Longer

Today stainless steel is everywhere from the kitchens in restaurants and at home to the doctor’s office. The reason stainless steel is everywhere is that the material is easy to clean and lasts a long time…

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Dawn Spacecraft in Orbit around Vesta Asteroid, Bruce Willis Not Involved (Yet)

I really like NASA and space travel. I sincerely wish that Obama and others in Washington had left NASA with the money to actually send humans to continue to do some of the adventuring. NASA announced…

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Researchers Develop Soft Memory that May Usher in New Biocompatible Electronics

There are a number of reasons that you might want to implant electronics into the human brain. There are also numerous devices that are in testing and may one day come to market that are for…

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Docs Successfully Transplant Synthetic Trachea Made with Patient’s Stem Cells

Unless you have good reason to know what a trachea is, it might be new word for you. The trachea is the part of the human body most often referred to as the windpipe. A 36-year-old…

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Flashed Face Distortion Effect: Ugly Optical Illusion

Sean Murphy was looking at sets of faces for one of his experiments when he observed something really freaky. Skimming fairly rapidly through pictures of two faces side-by-side, Murphy started noticing that some of the people…

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Asteroid Came Really Close to Earth (and Most of Us Had No Clue)

We have probably all heard the clamoring by people over the years that we need to have a better warning system in place to warn us of asteroids that are on a path to collide with…

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So This Is How Cobb Spun His Top in Inception

If you’ve seen the movie Inception, then you probably already know about his spinning top. If you haven’t, then I’m not about to go spoil the movie for you. However, I am going to talk about…

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Make Your Own Geiger Counter Using Arduino

If you worry about radiation with all the post-quake nuclear troubles, going on in Japan, you can build your own radiation detector if you feel the need. The Libelium team decided that they wanted to put…

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Ancient Mammoths Discovered in California

I always wanted to be an archaeologist when I was a kid. I had the Indiana Jones whip and hat left over from Halloween, so it was a natural progression for me. I later found out…

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Potential Cure for Baldness Discovered by Accident

OK chrome-domes, listen up. This will make your day. A potential cure for baldness has been discovered – purely by accident. Apparently, the researchers that happened on the possible cure were researching a new treatment for…

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Thermobility Wireless Power Generator Makes Power from Heat

Don’t look now, coppertop, but the Matrix has you. A company called Thermobility has unveiled a power generator for mobile devices that makes power from heat. The little device is aimed at low-power applications and is…

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Self-Folding Origami Needs More Swans and Unicorns

A team of scientists at MIT Cambridge have developed a prototype of a “programmable matter” which can automatically change its shape when electrical impulses are applied to it. A demonstration of the technology was put together…

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Recycled Newspapers Could Be Tomorrow’s Fuel

Researchers Implant Glowing Sensor to Detect Blood Sugar in Mouse

EES Packs Circuits Onto Skin: Beginning of the Modern Cyborg

Now Grown-Ups Can Go Rock-A-Bye Baby in These Adult Cradles

Scientists Create Stainless Steel That Resists Bacteria and Lasts Longer

Dawn Spacecraft in Orbit around Vesta Asteroid, Bruce Willis Not Involved (Yet)

Researchers Develop Soft Memory that May Usher in New Biocompatible Electronics

Docs Successfully Transplant Synthetic Trachea Made with Patient’s Stem Cells

Flashed Face Distortion Effect: Ugly Optical Illusion

Asteroid Came Really Close to Earth (and Most of Us Had No Clue)

So This Is How Cobb Spun His Top in Inception

Make Your Own Geiger Counter Using Arduino

Ancient Mammoths Discovered in California

Potential Cure for Baldness Discovered by Accident

Thermobility Wireless Power Generator Makes Power from Heat

Self-Folding Origami Needs More Swans and Unicorns

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