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  • For decades, running shoes have been manufactured in different styles to affect "pronation": rotational movement of the foot. If you tend to rotate either too far (over-pronate) or not enough (under-pronate) then you need corrective (and... More >
  • The skies do strange things at the NEEM camp, a remote ice-drilling and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet. Midnight sunshine. Low clouds of sparkling ice crystals known as "diamond dust." But when rain... More >
  • The era of exotic meats grown to order, with no animals killed in the process, could be on its way. This summer in London, Dr. Mark Post's team from Maastricht University is at long last going... More >
  • In October, at the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon, a team of scientists and engineers began pumping 11 million gallons of water underground, right near the caldera of the famed Newberry Volcano... More >
  • As part of the excellent Periodic Table of Videos series, shot by video journalist Brady Haran and featuring University of Nottingham chemists, this YouTube video walks you through what happens when hot charcoal gets added to liquid oxygen. More >
  • Corrective Running Shoes Are Based On A Myth

    For decades, running shoes have been manufactured in different styles to affect "pronation": rotational movement of the foot. If you tend to rotate either too far (over-pronate) or not enough... More >
  • Are Scientists Underestimating Future Sea Levels?

    The skies do strange things at the NEEM camp, a remote ice-drilling and research facility on the northern Greenland ice sheet. Midnight sunshine. Low clouds of sparkling ice crystals known as "diamond... More >
  • Envisioning A Future Of Custom-Grown Meat

    The era of exotic meats grown to order, with no animals killed in the process, could be on its way. This summer in London, Dr. Mark Post's team from Maastricht University is at long last going to serve... More >
  • Could A Volcano Power A Country?

    In October, at the Deschutes National Forest in central Oregon, a team of scientists and engineers began pumping 11 million gallons of water underground, right near the caldera of the famed Newberry Volcano... More >
  • Video: Plunging Hot Charcoal Into Liquid Oxygen

    As part of the excellent Periodic Table of Videos series, shot by video journalist Brady Haran and featuring University of Nottingham chemists, this YouTube video walks you through what happens when hot charcoal gets... More >
Kelsey D. Atherton
at 07:15 AM June 19 2013
IMAGE BY Carnegie Mellon
Gadgets // 

Using security cameras and algorithms, researchers at Carnegie Mellon created a nursing home monitoring system that "located individuals within one meter of their actual position 88 percent of the time." That's great news for people who want to be monitored all the time. For people who prefer to go about their business unobserved, it's another step toward a perfectly tracked future.

Dan Nosowitz
at 03:30 AM June 19 2013
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Science // 

Snowflake, the long-lived gorilla who died in 2003, was famous for being the only known albino gorilla. He became a wildly popular attraction at the Barcelona Zoo in Spain, where he lived almost his entire life, becoming almost a mascot for the city. But until now, nobody knew why Snowflake looked the way he did.

Shaunacy Ferro
at 01:00 AM June 19 2013
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Science // 

A sweetener produced by most plants could hold the key to treating Parkinson's disease, a recent paper in the Journal of Biological Chemistry asserts.

Shaunacy Ferro
at 11:54 PM June 18 2013
Technology // 

Last summer, in conjunction with Stanford researchers, Google[x], the R&D arm where ideas like Project Glass are born, built the world's largest artificial neural network designed to simulate a human brain. Now Andrew Ng, who directs Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab and was involved with Google's previous neural endeavor, has taken the project a step further. He and his team have created another neural network, more than six times the size of Google's record-setting achievement.

Francie Diep
at 11:00 PM June 18 2013
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Technology // 

You know DNA makes proteins. It tells living things how to tick. It carries blue eyes and an early receding hairline from father to son (Sorry, son!). But beyond what it does biologically, it's also just a carrier for information-a barcode, but one that can barely be seen even under advanced microscopes.

Kelsey D. Atherton
at 06:30 AM June 18 2013
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Technology // 

Government email spying in the United States may have all the headlines, but America hardly has a monopoly on privacy violations. Google revealed a massive phishing scheme against users of Google products in Iran last Wednesday.

Francie Diep
at 06:01 AM June 18 2013
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Sounds like a scenario that could have come straight from The Phantom Tollbooth's Dictionopolis. Researchers have created a program to catch pirates by their commas... to trap them with paragraph breaks.

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19/06/13 AT 12:55 PM
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11/06/13 AT 06:01 AM
"As apart of a Rural Fire Brigade , I can see the benefits of a UAV for reconnaisance and situational awareness inthe field . What cabablities does it have ? Things that would be of use for us are : FLIR/Heat sensing technology Terrain mapping/Vegetation yield sensors Day and night cameras/IR , real time POV Payload adapations eg HF radio repeater for remote areas Long flight time with changable flight path and autonomy Collision avoidance , automatic take-off and landing Return to base station when low battery Return to last place of signal if lost Tall order but they are of importance "
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