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DISCOVERmagazine.com Featured on Colbert Report! Okay, perhaps “featured” is a bit of a stretch, but an 80beats ... May 08, 2009 05:45 PM |
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Things You Can’t Say in School A decision came down this week from the U.S. District Court in Central ... May 08, 2009 03:32 PM |
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A Request For The Design Hive Mind: Vote For A Tangled Bank Book Cover [Update 4:30 pm: I left off one of the covers (Tiktaalik3) from the ... May 08, 2009 03:04 PM |
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Weird Science Roundup: Psychedelic Science, Melting Ski Runs, and Virtual ... • We all know the snows of Kilimanjaro are melting and Mt. Everest ... May 08, 2009 03:00 PM |
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The Inspiring Boom in "Super-Earths" At last we are finding rocky planets like our own. But some are pretty weird: The smallest may have a mineral-vapor atmosphere that condenses as lava rain or rock snow. May 07, 2009 |
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Why Does the Vaccine/Autism Controversy Live On? Research has soundly disproved the alleged connection, yet fears about vaccines continue to be a major risk to public health. May 06, 2009 |
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The Best NASA Satellite Photos from the Last 50 Years
Solar storms, choking cities, and glories in the sky, captured on film. May 05, 2009 |
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Can Giant Robots Successfully Mine the Mile-Deep Seafloor? The economic collapse threatens the long-held dream of underwater mining. May 04, 2009 |
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The Next Source of Green Energy: Your Car Itself A new MIT invention turns shock absorbers into electric generators. May 03, 2009 |
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20 Things You Didn't Know About... Interesting info-nuggets about all that stuff you recently sent to the IRS. |
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The Big Similarities & Quirky Differences Between Our Left and Right Brains A broken symmetry from our evolutionary heritage is part of what makes us human. |
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The Man Who Found Quarks and Made Sense of the Universe Murray Gell-Mann had a smash success with particles, notorious dustups with Feynman, and a missed opportunity with Einstein. |
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3 Great Uses of Twitter, According to Cofounder Jack Dorsey 1) Throwing parties 2) Lifeline during a terrorist attack 3) Staying connected with mom |
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Can Smart Tech Keep Chevy Volt's Battery Running Longer Than Your Laptop's? GM says that tightly controlling how the battery charges will keep it alive for 10 years/150,000 miles. |
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Bringing Dead-Tree Misfits Into the Digital World A new Fujitsu scanner merges business cards, receipts, and other important pieces of paper with the rest of your data. |
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The Best of Science Culture This Month Extreme mammals, animal justice, and the indie version of the Matrix |
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The Kilogram Isn't What It Used to Be—It's Lighter Within a high-security, climate-controlled vault in France, the perfect kilogram is getting ever so slightly less massive—and no one knows why. |