Celebrating 50th Anniversary, Bubble Wrap Joyfully Bursts Own Bubble
Can't stop the pop!
America's beloved Bubble Wrap turns 50 today, proving that even ephemeral
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New Clay-Based Hydrogels Could Be an Ecologically Safe Replacement For Plastics
The invention of plastics in the mid-1800s changed human civilization
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First Effective Way to Produce Graphene Sheets Could Usher in the Future of Electronics
Moore's Law provides the axiom that the number of transistors that can be placed on a circuit
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The Secret Lives of Particle Accelerators
Sometime in the next week, the world?s largest particle accelerator should start firing twin beams of protons on a collision course beneath the French-Swiss border. The Large Hadron Collider will run at only half its maximum energy for the next year and a half, however,
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New Laser-Driven Displays Use 75 Percent Less Power Than Today's Screens
LCDs, make way for LPDs
Films such as Blade Runner and Minority Report tend to show tons
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Google Puts Foot Down On Chinese Net Censorship
And China in turn censors the news
Yesterday?s announcement
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Salad Science: Devices Self-Assemble Using Oil-Water Repulsion
What happens when you add 64,000 tiny components to a base of oil and water? Depending on the nature of the components, you might end up with a delectable vinaigrette. University of Minnesota researchers found something even more tantalizing: a
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Video: World's Fastest Eco-Boat Sunk in Whaler Collision
The stealthy speedboat had its bow smashed during a confrontation in Antarctic waters
UPDATE: The Sea Shepherd website and various news reports state that the speedboat "Ady Gil" has apparently sunk.
A record-setting stealth boat ended up with a smashed bow during
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Magnetic Ink Turns Any Paper Into Possible Nanomachine
It seems like everyone is trying to make nanomachines these days, usually through some expensive
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Forget the Flying Car: Here ComesThe Flying Motorcycle
How to build a commercially viable flying car: first, make it a
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Sony's New Internal Wireless Tech Snips Wires Inside Your Gadgets
Fewer wires mean less breakdowns and smaller packages
Wireless TV just got a whole new
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The Dizzying Future Of Augmented Reality, Envisioned
We are all RoboCop
If you?re even slightly nauseated/hungover/susceptible to vertigo, this clip from a project at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London is not for you. Master?s student Keiichi Matsuda?s vision of a future mash-up of architecture, augmented
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First Effective Way to Produce Graphene Sheets Could Usher in the Future of Electronics
Moore's Law provides the axiom that the number of transistors that can be placed on a circuit
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New Clay-Based Hydrogels Could Be an Ecologically Safe Replacement For Plastics
The invention of plastics in the mid-1800s changed human civilization
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NSF Puts Up $25 Million to Research Biological Machines
What would you do with $25 million? If you answered "create a center to research the development
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Australian Science Festival and Pathfinders ? On This Week!
If you?re in Canberra this week make sure to check out the Australian Science Festival and Pathfinders, and pop in to say ?hi? to Popular Science. We?ll be there all week
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iSnack 2.0: When Technology Meets Vegemite
When well-intend crowdsourcing goes horribly wrong
Way back in the 1920s, a public competition
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This Week, Cybersecurity Efforts Advance on Several Fronts
Google teams up with the NSA, the DoD invests in cyberdefense, smart-grid defense costs add up, and more
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Richard Branson Unveils Bond-Style Deep-Sea Submarine
Not content with space alone, the founder of Virgin Galactic wants to explore the oceans too
Billionaire
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Video: World's Fastest Eco-Boat Sunk in Whaler Collision
The stealthy speedboat had its bow smashed during a confrontation in Antarctic waters
UPDATE: The Sea Shepherd website and various news reports state that the speedboat "Ady Gil" has apparently sunk.
A record-setting stealth boat ended up with a smashed bow during
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Coming Soon: a Synthetic Brain Built from Tens of Thousands of Smartphone Chips
If you like to think of the processor running your smartphone as the nerve centre of your device, wait until you see what Steve Furber's got in mind. The computer engineer, probably best known for his work on the BBC Micro and ARM microprocessors, has begun construction of a 1-billion-neuron
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Using Artificial Proteins, Engineers Create a Biomaterial that Mimics Muscle Elasticity
In a breakthrough that could lead to significant advances in materials science and tissue engineering, researchers at the U. of British Colombia have engineered a solid biomaterial that mimics the elasticity of muscle.
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A 7.6cm Bio-Detector Quickly Scans For All the Bacteria and Viruses We Know Of, All at Once
The ability to quickly detect and identify viruses and bacteria is key in fields ranging from antiterrorism to medical diagnosis to pharmaceutical safety. A novel 7.6cm device created at Lawrence Livermore National
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IBM and DOT to Test High-Tech Transit Future
Texas is known for its wide open spaces and a certain enthusiasm among its citizens for traversing them by automobile. So it's appropriate that IBM and the Department of Transportation are planning an upgrade for car culture in the Lone Star State. Texas will serve
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In largest science experiment ever, three spacecraft will swap laser fire across 4.8 million kilometres
CERN's Large Hadron Collider is currently the biggest science experiment in operation, but it may have to pass that mantle on soon enough. A collaboration between NASA and the ESA plans to launch
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Newest Gates Foundation grants include sweat-activated vaccines, laser-guided parasite killers
One of the richest men in history is spreading his wealth around again. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced its fourth round
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Nephelios, a manned solar-powered blimp, prepares to cross the English Channel
A year behind schedule, a team of French engineering students is finally preparing to send Nephelios, the solar-powered manned airship they've developed, on its maiden voyage across the English channel.
The ambitious project had aimed to accomplish
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Male dinosaurs used attention-seeking habits to score mates
Science has recently confirmed what many women may have long suspected: the male habit of comparing attributes to impress a potential sexual partner can be traced to the Stone Age and beyond.
Several prehistoric creatures, including one of our own distance ancestors, developed elaborate
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Yes, Hayabusa asteroid probe contains particles
JAXA, the Japanese space agency, has released the first photographs of the interior of the Hayabusa probe. Last week, we were starting to fear that the seven-year mission had returned to Earth without the crumbs of asteroid Itokawa that it had been sent for.
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Build it: an LED lamp that visualises data from the web
The vast amount of information at our fingertips these days can be as distracting as it is useful. Tracking something like the movement of an index on the stock market by feverishly checking a ticker all day is often more than you want to deal with. So this cube lets you display data it receives
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