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Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble
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Pretty Space Pics: A Skywatcher Captures the Cosmos Blowing a Beautiful Gas Bubble

By Clay Dillow

Birth of Youngest Planet Ever Seen Is Witnessed With Telescopic Trick
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Birth of Youngest Planet Ever Seen Is Witnessed With Telescopic Trick

By Rebecca Boyle

Brilliant 10: The Sludge Miner
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Brilliant 10: The Sludge Miner

By Elizabeth Svoboda

Brilliant 10: Molecular Filmmaker
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Brilliant 10: Molecular Filmmaker

By Mara Grunbaum

The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update
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The World’s Most Complete, High-Res Topographic Map Gets an Update

By Clay Dillow

Searching for Life in All the Right Places
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Searching for Life in All the Right Places

By Jennifer Abbasi

SETI’s Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens
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SETI’s Seth Shostak on How, When, and Where We Will Meet Aliens

By Jennifer Abbasi

The Search for Alien Life Is On
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The Search for Alien Life Is On

By Jennifer Abbasi

Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity
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Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos Might Be Explained By GPS Failing to Account For Special Relativity

By Rebecca Boyle

Brilliant 10: The Chemical Catcher
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Brilliant 10: The Chemical Catcher

By Madhumita Venkataramanan

The Very Large Array Wants You To Rename It
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The Very Large Array Wants You To Rename It

By Paul Adams

Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense
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Nearly All Vertebrates, Including Us, Descended From a Creature With An Electromagnetic Sixth Sense

By Rebecca Boyle

November 2011: Data Is Power
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November 2011: Data Is Power

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Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug
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Ocean Explorers Find Largest Virus Ever Seen, 20 Times Bigger than the Average Bug

By Rebecca Boyle

Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans
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Optimism Is a Brain Defect, According to Functional MRI Scans

By Rebecca Boyle

Keeping Surgical Infections at Bay With a Cocoon of Air
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Keeping Surgical Infections at Bay With a Cocoon of Air

By Clay Dillow

How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter
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How a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: A Homemade Rocket Soars 121,000 Feet in 92 Seconds
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Video: A Homemade Rocket Soars 121,000 Feet in 92 Seconds

By Clay Dillow

New Robot Arm Uses Static Cling to Grab Objects in Zero-G, From Satellites to Space Junk
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New Robot Arm Uses Static Cling to Grab Objects in Zero-G, From Satellites to Space Junk

By Rebecca Boyle

Futuristic Predictions From the Past That Steve Jobs Fulfilled
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Futuristic Predictions From the Past That Steve Jobs Fulfilled

By Dan Nosowitz

Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality
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Found: The Particular Brain Fold That Helps People Distinguish Between Imagination and Reality

By Rebecca Boyle

Chemist Once Accused of ‘Quasi-Science’ Wins Nobel For Quasicrystal Discovery
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Chemist Once Accused of ‘Quasi-Science’ Wins Nobel For Quasicrystal Discovery

By Rebecca Boyle

The Winners of the 2011 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition
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The Winners of the 2011 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition

By Sean Kane

Tiny Cilia Inside Corpse’ Noses Could Be a More Reliable Indicator of Time of Death
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Tiny Cilia Inside Corpse’ Noses Could Be a More Reliable Indicator of Time of Death

By Clay Dillow

Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls
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Bats Have Unique Superfast Squeak Muscles to Make Superfast Echolocation Calls

By Rebecca Boyle

The 2011 Ig Nobel Award Winners: Wasabi Alarm Clocks, Beetle/Beer Bottle Fornication, and More Weird Science
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The 2011 Ig Nobel Award Winners: Wasabi Alarm Clocks, Beetle/Beer Bottle Fornication, and More Weird Science

By Dan Nosowitz

Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons
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Fermilab Stops Smashing Hadrons, Looks Into Smashing Muons

By Clay Dillow

New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water
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New Shrimp Farming Technique Yields Record Hauls of Jumbo Shrimp from Minimal Water

By Clay Dillow

For the First Time, Researchers Use an Atom Interferometer to Measure Aircraft Acceleration
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For the First Time, Researchers Use an Atom Interferometer to Measure Aircraft Acceleration

By Clay Dillow

Weird New Forms of Bacterial Life Found in the Dead Sea
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Weird New Forms of Bacterial Life Found in the Dead Sea

By Dan Nosowitz

NASA’s Falling UARS Satellite Found in Remote South Pacific
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NASA’s Falling UARS Satellite Found in Remote South Pacific

By Clay Dillow

Space Weather Is Worsening; Could Mean Risk for Astronauts and Delay Manned Mars Missions
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Space Weather Is Worsening; Could Mean Risk for Astronauts and Delay Manned Mars Missions

By Rebecca Boyle

Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth Gas Giant in Our Solar System
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Simulation Suggests There May Have Been a Fifth Gas Giant in Our Solar System

By Sean Kane

Mind-Reading Tech Reconstructs Videos From Brain Images
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Mind-Reading Tech Reconstructs Videos From Brain Images

By Dan Nosowitz

Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light
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Baffling CERN Results Show Neutrinos Moving Faster Than the Speed of Light

By Clay Dillow

SASSA, the Military’s New Satellite Self-Defense System, is Ready to Go to Space
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SASSA, the Military’s New Satellite Self-Defense System, is Ready to Go to Space

By Clay Dillow

What Is the Point of the Female Orgasm?
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What Is the Point of the Female Orgasm?

By Jennifer Abbasi

Pluto May Be Hiding Oceans Underneath Its Frozen Exterior
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Pluto May Be Hiding Oceans Underneath Its Frozen Exterior

By Dan Nosowitz

A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Protofeathers, Trapped in Amber
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A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Protofeathers, Trapped in Amber

By Dan Nosowitz

Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose
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Suntory Creates Mythical Blue (Or, Um, Lavender-ish) Rose

By Dan Nosowitz

Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine
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Kepler Spots a Planet Orbiting Two Suns, Just Like Star Wars’ Tatooine

By John Mahoney and Katie Peek

Winners of the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest
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Winners of the 2011 Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

By Julie Beck

The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved
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The Mystery of Wrinkly-When-Wet Fingers, Solved

By Dan Nosowitz

Meet NASA’s New Deep Space Rocket
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Meet NASA’s New Deep Space Rocket

By John Mahoney

Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation
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Ten Astounding Cases of Modern Evolution and Adaptation

By Dan Nosowitz

Scottish Scientists Are Trying to Create Inorganic Life
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Scottish Scientists Are Trying to Create Inorganic Life

By Julie Beck

All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says
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All the Gold We’ve Mined Came From Space, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

PopSci’s 10th Annual Brilliant 10
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PopSci’s 10th Annual Brilliant 10

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New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon
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New NASA Photos Show Footprints on the Moon

By Paul Adams

High School Inventors 2011
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High School Inventors 2011

By Katherine Bagley

Archive Gallery: 10 Renowned Scientists Make Their PopSci Debut
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Archive Gallery: 10 Renowned Scientists Make Their PopSci Debut

By Denise Ngo

Japanese Domino’s Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon
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Japanese Domino’s Unveils Elaborate, Carefully Thought-Out Plans to Sling Pizza on the Moon

By Dan Nosowitz

Study Finds That Injecting Old Mice With Young Mouse Blood Has a Rejuvenating Effect
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Study Finds That Injecting Old Mice With Young Mouse Blood Has a Rejuvenating Effect

By Dan Nosowitz

To Fight Warming, Brits Plan to Launch a Huge Balloon and Really Long Pipe
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To Fight Warming, Brits Plan to Launch a Huge Balloon and Really Long Pipe

By Clay Dillow

New ‘Goldilocks’ Exoplanet Could be the Most Earth-Like We’ve Yet Seen
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New ‘Goldilocks’ Exoplanet Could be the Most Earth-Like We’ve Yet Seen

By Clay Dillow

Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half
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Fermilab Astrophysicist’s Method Cuts Plane Boarding Times in Half

By Dan Nosowitz

Future Mars Colonists Will Pack Their Power to Go in a Suitcase Nuclear Reactor
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Future Mars Colonists Will Pack Their Power to Go in a Suitcase Nuclear Reactor

By Clay Dillow

Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything
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Latest Results from the Large Hadron Collider Do Not Look Good For the Supersymmetry Theory of Everything

By Rebecca Boyle

Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials
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Jurassic Mammal Fossil Hints At Earlier Split Between Placental Mammals and Marsupials

By Rebecca Boyle

Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation
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Doctors Who Work With X-Rays May Be Adapting at the Cellular Level to Withstand Radiation

By Rebecca Boyle

Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever
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Brand-New Supernova Spotted Within Hours, Will Be the Most-Studied Star Explosion Ever

By Rebecca Boyle

Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever
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Infecting Mosquitoes With Contagious Gonad-Attacking Bacteria Could Block Dengue Fever

By Clay Dillow

NASA’s Infrared Explorer Spots a Room-Temperature Brown Dwarf, the Coldest Star Ever Found
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NASA’s Infrared Explorer Spots a Room-Temperature Brown Dwarf, the Coldest Star Ever Found

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA’s Laser Communications System Will Enable High-Speed Transmissions From Mars
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NASA’s Laser Communications System Will Enable High-Speed Transmissions From Mars

By Clay Dillow

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