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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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Cloning Woolly Mammoths: Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong

Scientists have announced that they are close to cloning woolly mammoths. This could take place in as little as 4 years. While we won’t exactly get Jurassic Park, we may have a real-world Ice Age Park.…

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Carbon Nanotubes Makes Aerogel Even Lighter Than it Already Was

Aerogel is a man-made material that was invented a while back. It’s one of those products that is really cool, but hasn’t made its way into anything too interesting that I have seen yet. Aerogel is…

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Steins of Science: Science I Can Get Behind

I think it’s really cool when you make stuff out of other stuff and the stuff you make out of that other stuff actually serve a purpose and stuff. Know what I mean? Such is the…

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The God Helmet: Magnetic Field’s a Hell of a Drug

One of the most important questions known to man is one that is perhaps best not conclusively answered – the question of whether or not God exists. I’m sure the debate will continue and intensify as…

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Researchers Develop Printer That Prints Skin

I once knew a guy that had been in a fire that burned his hands and arms badly. He had to get skin grafts that left him with scars elsewhere on the body to replace the…

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This Magnet That Will Make You a Lefty. Say What?

Apparently this magnet can make you left-handed, if you’re right-handed. Sounds kind of crazy, but it makes sense how this could help people who have either lost some function in their right arm. According to a…

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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

Cloning Woolly Mammoths: Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong

Carbon Nanotubes Makes Aerogel Even Lighter Than it Already Was

Steins of Science: Science I Can Get Behind

The God Helmet: Magnetic Field’s a Hell of a Drug

Researchers Develop Printer That Prints Skin

This Magnet That Will Make You a Lefty. Say What?

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