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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightNASA Has Discovered the Darkest Shadows in the Galaxy
NASA and the University of Zurich have announced the discovery of what are believed to be the darkest spots in the galaxy outside of a black hole’s event horizon. These shadows, formed by clumps of extremely dense gas clouds, were first observed using the Spitzer Space Telescope. They are part of a much larger cloud … Continued
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South Korea’s Magnet-Powered Bullet Train Has Taken Its First Ride
To get up to top speed, bullet trains have to pull a huge amount of electrical current from the grid. typically through unsightly overhead power lines. But this newly debuted train prototype from South Korea sucks up electricity invisibly from the tracks below. Developed through a collaboration of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and … Continued
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ScienceHealth
Finding, Treating, and Beating the Most Survivable Forms of Cancer
Being diagnosed with cancer is often compared to being kicked in the gut—by a Clydesdale. But if caught soon enough, many of the disease’s 200 iterations offer more than even survival rates, five years down the line. It’s by no means a clean bill of health, mind you, but there several forms of cancer that … Continued
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Tech NewsWhy Don’t All Metro Buses Transform into Intergalactic Robo-Fighters?
I don’t know what Bondibots are (I don’t speak French), I don’t know what they’re supposed to be doing when not fighting their way across the galaxy, playing soccer, or jamming on gigantic guitars—driving old people around maybe?—and I really don’t know what the hell is going on in this video. All I do know … Continued
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ScienceSpace & SpaceflightHow Bell Labs Is Reinventing the Future All Over Again
In 1964, a pair of Bell Labs researchers in New Jersey pointed the world’s largest radio telescope to the skies and unwittingly stumbled upon one of the greatest discoveries of the 20th Century: cosmic background radiation. We talked with the legendary physicist behind that breakthrough to find out more—and with the president of Bell Labs … Continued
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Tech News
Chicago’s Huge Vertical Farm Glows Under Countless LED Suns
Chicago, Illinois, isn’t exactly a major player in national food production anymore, but that could soon change if companies like Green Sense Farms continue to sprout up. With the help of next-gen LED grow lights, the country’s biggest indoor commercial vertical farm can produce masses of produce regardless of the weather outside. Green Sense Farms … Continued
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Tech News
Apple and Google Agree to Stop Suing Each Other into Oblivion
According to breaking reports from the Wall Street Journal, consumer electronics titans Google and Apple have just agreed to drop pending lawsuits against one another and work together to reform patent law. Wonder Twin powers activate! http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304908304579566583336822024 Earlier this afternoon, Apple and Google informed a federal appeals court that they had agreed to settle all … Continued
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Tech NewsKishi Bashi: The Ballad of Mr. Steak
A magical dancing steak must make a fateful choice between duty and passion in the newest music video for singer-songwriter-one-man-symphony Kishi Bashi. Mr. Steak is the first single off of Bashi’s sophomore album, Lighght. You may remember his earlier work Philosophize in It! Chemicalize with It! from March, however the new album reportedly pushes well … Continued
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Tech News
This Furious High-Flying Drone Can Spy Overhead For 15 Hours
For many modern UAVs, portability comes at the cost of airtime longevity—the smaller the drone, the shorter it stays in the air. But the Lockheed Fury 1500 is small enough to be packed to the ends of the Earth and strong enough to loiter over that spot for more than half a day. Originally developed … Continued
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Tech NewsThis Stealth Submarine Periscope Can Spy Virtually Through the Waves
On the modern high seas, raising your submarine’s periscope at the wrong time is just as bad as raising a flag with a target on it. But thanks to a new optical suite developed by Israel’s Technion Institute of Technology, tomorrow’s subs will only ever have to break waves when in port. The prototype technology, … Continued
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Tech NewsWhat a Savages Concert Looks Like Through a Welder’s Mask (NSFW)
Between the light display, the gyrating performers, the overwhelming wall of sound, and that 1/8th of shrooms you just gobbled, sitting through a full concert without freaking out can be hard these days. But with director Giorgio Testi’s wickedly tight cropping, your eyes and mind stay focused right where they should be—on the master class … Continued
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Tech NewsIs the US Poised for an E-Bike Revolution?
Despite America’s ongoing love affair with automobiles, a rapidly growing number of commuters across the country are turning to their two-wheeled transports for both health and economic reasons. This renewed affection has not, however, been extended to their battery-packing cousins, the pedelectric e-bike. This makes no sense. I mean, we’re talking about America here. We’re … Continued
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Tech NewsSploid
Swiss wizards can now create holograms using just chocolate
This is really amazing and beautiful: Chocolate etched with rainbow holograms using a technique that doesn’t use additives of any kind, but rathercarves specific microstructures into the chocolate’s surface that defract light—much the same way that the security holograms on credit cards work. Developed by Swiss design company, Morphotonix, working with a German chocolate mould … Continued
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ScienceSpace & Spaceflight
This Cold War Test Bed Irradiated Satellites Before the Soviets Could
How do you ensure that fancy new military satellite is tough enough to withstand an orbital EMP attack by the Soviets? By shooting it with your own nuclear bomb using this massive, movable test chamber, obviously. During the Cold War, players on both sides of the Iron Curtain worked just as hard devising ways to … Continued
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Tech NewsThe OMNIS POWERGLOVE Will Turn You Into a Demented Iron Man
Throw that Pebble into a lake and punch off the Google Glass off your face, the next generation of wearable tech is finally here! The OMNIS POWERGLOVE (you gotta say it like that, copyright law and all) combines a slew of handy features like neural integration, holographic projectors, and subconscious mind control—everything the modern apathetic … Continued
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Tech News
A Quadriplegic Racer Will Steer a Stingray With His Head at the Indy 500
It takes a special breed to enter the Indy 500, but to attempt to do so without the use of your arms or legs is simply out of the question. Until now, that is. With the aid of his semi-autonomous race car, former Indy Racing League driver Sam Schmidt is in it to win it—or … Continued
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