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What Happens To Your Body When You Get Drunk And Stoned At The Same Time?
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What Happens To Your Body When You Get Drunk And Stoned At The Same Time?

By Gabe Bergado

Faces, Spaces, Siblings: What Do Babies See All Day Long?
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Faces, Spaces, Siblings: What Do Babies See All Day Long?

By Kate Gammon

Scientists Sequence The Largest Genome To Date
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Scientists Sequence The Largest Genome To Date

By Douglas Main

How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?
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How Many Martinis Can You Fit Inside a V-2 Missile?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Court Rulings “They” Don’t Want You to Know About
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Court Rulings “They” Don’t Want You to Know About

By Rebecca Watson

Stop Looking For ‘Hardwired’ Differences In Male And Female Brains
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Stop Looking For ‘Hardwired’ Differences In Male And Female Brains

By Virginia Hughes

Radar Will Scan NYC Park For A Buried Luxury Bomb Shelter From 1964
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Radar Will Scan NYC Park For A Buried Luxury Bomb Shelter From 1964

By Francie Diep

The Editor’s Letter From The April 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
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The Editor’s Letter From The April 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine

By Cliff Ransom

Far More than a Hole in the Ground
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Far More than a Hole in the Ground

By Maki Naro

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Bruce McCandless’ Terrifying-Looking Spacewalk

By Amy Shira Teitel

‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory
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‘Huge’ Physics Finding Supports Big Bang Theory

By Douglas Main

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The Week In Numbers: Google’s Robot Army, A Beautiful View Of Pi, And More

By Rose Pastore

It’s Not Just Pi Day, It’s Pi Month!
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It’s Not Just Pi Day, It’s Pi Month!

By Douglas Main

Genius, As A Tot
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Genius, As A Tot

By Kate Gammon

Neurons
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Forgetting Is An Actively Controlled Process In The Brain

By Douglas Main

Modern Scientists Validate Alan Turing’s Theory About Biology
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Modern Scientists Validate Alan Turing’s Theory About Biology

By Francie Diep

Do Small Satellites Make For More Space Junk?
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Do Small Satellites Make For More Space Junk?

By Francie Diep

Squids And Other Invertebrates Can Probably Feel Pain
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Squids And Other Invertebrates Can Probably Feel Pain

By Douglas Main

What Happens To Your Prosthetics After You Die?
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What Happens To Your Prosthetics After You Die?

By Douglas Main

Max Valier: Modern Rocketry’s First Casualty
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Max Valier: Modern Rocketry’s First Casualty

By Amy Shira Teitel

IBM’s Watson Made Me A Kebab
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IBM’s Watson Made Me A Kebab

By Colin Lecher

Should You Stay Up Late?
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Should You Stay Up Late?

By Brooke Borel

The Woman Who Thinks She Can Will Herself Out of Her Body
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The Woman Who Thinks She Can Will Herself Out of Her Body

By Rebecca Watson

This Famous Image Of Marie Curie Isn’t Marie Curie
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This Famous Image Of Marie Curie Isn’t Marie Curie

By Douglas Main

Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘We Will Know Whether There’s Life On Other Planets’
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Neil deGrasse Tyson: ‘We Will Know Whether There’s Life On Other Planets’

By Susannah F. Locke

Born To Swim?
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Born To Swim?

By Kate Gammon

7 Factors That Change Your Sense Of Taste
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7 Factors That Change Your Sense Of Taste

By Amber Williams

There Are 10 Times More Fish In The Sea Than We Thought
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There Are 10 Times More Fish In The Sea Than We Thought

By Douglas Main

When Sleep Goes Terribly Wrong
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When Sleep Goes Terribly Wrong

By Brooke Borel

A Cheap, Promising Way to Filter Water: Through A Twig
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A Cheap, Promising Way to Filter Water: Through A Twig

By Douglas Main

Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?
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Ask Anything: Why Is The Milky Way A Spiral?

By Daniel Engber

What Escapes A Black Hole?
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What Escapes A Black Hole?

By Kate Baggaley

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Max Valier’s 1924 Thoughts on Rocket Planes

By Amy Shira Teitel

NASA Could’ve Prevented The Near-Drowning Of An Astronaut
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NASA Could’ve Prevented The Near-Drowning Of An Astronaut

By Colin Lecher

Kickstart A Sci-Fi Theater Festival
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Kickstart A Sci-Fi Theater Festival

By Emily Gertz

The Strange Beauty Of Bioluminescent Fish
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The Strange Beauty Of Bioluminescent Fish

By Lindsey Kratochwill

Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery
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Scientists Make Largest Quark, Solving A 20-Year Mystery

By Douglas Main

Famous Novels’ First Sentences, Mapped [Infographic]
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Famous Novels’ First Sentences, Mapped [Infographic]

By Colin Lecher

A Scientific Look At Why You Hate Hawaiian Shirts
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A Scientific Look At Why You Hate Hawaiian Shirts

By Colin Lecher

The Editor’s Letter From The March 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine
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The Editor’s Letter From The March 2014 Issue Of Popular Science Magazine

By Cliff Ransom

The “Yoga Mat Chemical” In Bread
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The “Yoga Mat Chemical” In Bread

By John Coupland

Ask Anything: Can You Hypnotize An Animal?
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Ask Anything: Can You Hypnotize An Animal?

By Daniel Engber

Ragnarok, or Apocalypse by Press Release
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Ragnarok, or Apocalypse by Press Release

By Rebecca Watson

More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine
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More Evidence Shows Whooping Cough Evolving In Response To Its Vaccine

By Francie Diep

Why Does White Noise Help People Sleep?
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Why Does White Noise Help People Sleep?

By Colin Lecher

NASA Invites Private Companies To The Moon
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NASA Invites Private Companies To The Moon

By Gabe Bergado

Chew This: What Does Science Tell Us About Teething?
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Chew This: What Does Science Tell Us About Teething?

By Kate Gammon

Letters From Charles Darwin
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Letters From Charles Darwin

By Rose Pastore

The Cosmos, Explained: Neil deGrasse Tyson On His New Series
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The Cosmos, Explained: Neil deGrasse Tyson On His New Series

By Douglas Main

There Are 177,147 Ways To Tie A Tie
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There Are 177,147 Ways To Tie A Tie

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles
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Fermilab’s Neutrino Detector Sees Its First Particles

By Francie Diep

Hugh Latimer Dryden
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Should NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Centre be Renamed for Neil Armstrong?

By Amy Shira Teitel

Uzbekistan Will Test Kids’ Genes To Find Future Olympians
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Uzbekistan Will Test Kids’ Genes To Find Future Olympians

By Douglas Main

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Chickens Wear Prosthetic Dinosaur Tails, For Science

By Colin Lecher

Big Pic: A Sound System That’s Loud Enough To Kill
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Big Pic: A Sound System That’s Loud Enough To Kill

By Francie Diep

Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announce
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Space-Grown Vegetables Are Safe To Eat, Scientists Announce

By Francie Diep

Ants Playing Chess Find New Solutions To Old Problem
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Ants Playing Chess Find New Solutions To Old Problem

By Douglas Main

Birth Of Memory: Why Kids Forget What Happened Before Age 7
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Birth Of Memory: Why Kids Forget What Happened Before Age 7

By Kate Gammon

Materials From Carl Sagan’s College Courses Now Available Online
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Materials From Carl Sagan’s College Courses Now Available Online

By Francie Diep

How To Find Our Planet’s Twin
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How To Find Our Planet’s Twin

By Katie Peek

NASA Responds To Martian Life Lawsuit: It’s Just A Rock
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NASA Responds To Martian Life Lawsuit: It’s Just A Rock

By Colin Lecher

How To Euthanize A Whale
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How To Euthanize A Whale

By Kelsey D. Atherton

Did Ancient Aliens Build Giant Stone Boxes in Egypt?
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Did Ancient Aliens Build Giant Stone Boxes in Egypt?

By Rebecca Watson

Ask Anything: What Does Water Taste Like?
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Ask Anything: What Does Water Taste Like?

By Daniel Engber

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