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Rare earth elements are getting a lot of ink these days, as questions about future supply have led to both political and economic tensions, and to a renewed
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If you thought Apple's dictatorial stranglehold over the devices that you bought and paid for only extended to the company's vice-grip control over its operating system and its app store, think again. According to the hardware hackers over at ifixit,
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It's unclear which is the bigger news coming out of the Office of Naval Research; the fact that the Navy's Free Electron Laser (FEL) program has demonstrated an
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Researchers at Harvard have figured out how to manipulate the actions of nematode worms sans wires or electrodes, opening the door to a better understanding of how just a few neurons can influence behavior in animals. Scientists at the university's Center for Brain Science
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When news broke last week that archaeologist had unearthed a 6,000-year-old winemaking operation in an Armenian cave, many took it as occasion to pat
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The Journal of Cosmology recently published a special issue concerning the requisites for and perils inherent in a manned mission to Mars, which appropriately touched upon that taboo topic that NASA never talks about: sex in space. But while it might seem like a natural
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A universal heavyweight champion was crowned this morning at the 217th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Seattle: A giant black hole weighing a staggering 6.6 billion suns accepted the title of the most
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Quantum communication offers myriad advantages over conventional fiber optic networking, but manipulating electrons or photons to behave in the proper fashion has long kept quantum networking a "theoretical" pursuit. But University of Calgary researchers working with
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The space shuttle could fly its final mission as early as February 24.
After more than two months of delays, NASA said yesterday that space shuttle engineers have diagnosed
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The north magnetic pole is slowly sliding from its current locale in the far north of Canada toward Russia at a rate of something like 40 miles per year, but most of us don't feel the repercussions of that. However, far from the frosty Canadian tundra, sunny Tampa, Fla.,
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Think your car runs like crap? A sewage utility in Bristol, UK, has converted a Volkswagen Beetle to run on human waste. The Bio-Bug
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In just over a decade, the car industry in China has exploded. As of November 2009, China is the largest automobile market in the world, combining active partnerships with established foreign brands with a thriving, developing domestic market.
China's seemingly
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At one point or another in our lives, most of us would have had the hypothetical conversation surround which era of time we’d like to visit or have been born in. For some, living at the time of knights and fair maidens has chivalrous appeal. For others, living at a time when technology was
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Iran's Sacred Week of Defense (celebrating its eight-year resistance to the Iraqi invation of the 1980s) is never without a healthy dose of pomp and ceremony, but this week Iran's defense ministry took the usual military parade to the waterfront. Yesterday Iran unveiled
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Without a telescope, the Lagoon Nebula is faintly visible with the naked eye as a unremarkable patch of gray in the heart of the Milky Way. Observed up close with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys, it looks slightly
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I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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On your last flight, did you stare with envy at the people sitting in the exit row? Did you get a charley horse from trying to cross your legs under your tray table? Consider yourself lucky, pal. Your next budget flight might ask you to fly horseback style, squeezed
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The building blocks of life might exist in Martian soil after all, according to a new study. Evidence from the late Phoenix Mars lander suggests its Viking forebears might have found
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There are two ways to go about testing this, neither of which are practical. One requires the energy of dozens of Large Hadron Colliders. The other could yield a cauldron-full of flaming plutonium. Both, however, would probably create carbon monoxide and a pile of rust
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Anthony Le, 25, has been a fan of Iron Man since he was a kid, but when he heard that the comic-book superhero was hitting the big screen in 2008, he was inspired to build his own Iron Man suit. That version was more of a costume, but his new one, finished just in time for
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As particle physicists gather this week for a conference in Paris, they're reporting progress toward finding the elusive Higgs boson, with two groups suggesting a Higgs discovery may not be far off.
Physicists from Fermilab in Illinois announced they combined the results of two experiments
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If you haven’t already, you should have a read of this story on the PopSci front page. It tells the fantastical, yet true, tale of how there are seven global
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I recently returned from a rather short-term trip to the US of A and was greeted by this poor flight attendant and his meltdown that has become a rather public affair. Having read the various stories surrounding this incident and even watching the video re-enactment on the
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I've always thought it would be funny to build scale-size exploding grain silos for a model train
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Apple's iPad was finally launched yesterday to eager Australian crowds yesterday, with numerous media reports of enormous crowds being piled up outside
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The closer we get to the year 2015, the louder people lament that our world hardly resembles the one depicted in Back to the Future II. Although it will be awhile before any of us coast around in a flying Delorean, we've piped down our complaints, as a young
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Big Brother was watching before, but soon he'll bewatching with a whole new set of high-tech eyes. The US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is creating a wide-eyed
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It wasn’t so long ago that I wrote my passionate plea to sports fans asking them all to buy into my belief that human referees, umpires and other such adjudicators should
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We’re over halfway through the year and many retail outlets are a-buzz with the launch of 3-D TV. Samsung was first to market, and with other major television manufacturers set to release their own 3-D TV sets before the year is out, Australia is watching to see which form of active-technology
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For your chance to win a defensive driving course, email us at [email protected] with the subject line 'The Buzz July Comp' and in 25 words or less tell us about which car you think deserves the title of Australia’s Best Value For Money Car
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