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2012 Invention Awards: A Recirculating Shower

A cleaner wash feeds back water as you shower
By Nov 4, 2011
Technology

The World’s Most Amazing Databases: The International Panel on Climate Change’s Data Distribution Centre

The most controversial scientific topic of the past few decades--predicting the fate of the planet--gets a huge dose of data
By Nov 4, 2011
Technology

The World’s Most Amazing Databases: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Database

More than a hundred terabytes dedicated to maps of the universe
By Nov 3, 2011
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Amazing Databases: OKCupid’s OKTrends

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Linking all the world's libraries in the biggest bibliography you've ever seen
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The World’s Most Amazing Databases: The Encyclopedia of Life

The EOL, a collaboration by the foremost authorities in biology, is a massive database that tracks every organism on Earth
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Amazing Databases: The Wayback Machine

A permanent archive of the Web--some 200 million sites' worth
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The Ten Most Amazing Databases in the World

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Amazing Databases: The MD-Pro

A massive directory of all viruses, worms, and other malware--as well as a centralized anti-malware arsenal
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Amazing Databases: The Genographic Project

The National Geographic Society and IBM sell DNA-testing kits to trace human history scientifically