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Today in Mind Reading: Brain Scans Can Predict If You’re About to Make a Math Mistake
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Today in Mind Reading: Brain Scans Can Predict If You’re About to Make a Math Mistake

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Last Year’s DARPA Hypersonic Glider Test Failed When Vehicle Sped Right Out of Its Own Skin
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Video: Last Year’s DARPA Hypersonic Glider Test Failed When Vehicle Sped Right Out of Its Own Skin

By Clay Dillow

The Human Element
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The Human Element

By C.J. Chivers

Pumping Gas Into Commercial Airliners
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Pumping Gas Into Commercial Airliners

By Ryan Bradley

Test Drive: The 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth
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Test Drive: The 2012 Fiat 500 Abarth

By Jon Alain Guzik

Nanoparticle Coating Makes Paper Magnetic, Waterproof, and Antibacterial
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Nanoparticle Coating Makes Paper Magnetic, Waterproof, and Antibacterial

By Rebecca Boyle

Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
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Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex

By Rebecca Boyle

Bio-Armor: Printing Protective Plates From Patterns In Nature
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Bio-Armor: Printing Protective Plates From Patterns In Nature

By Ryan Bradley

A Model Disaster
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A Model Disaster

By Edward Tenner

Hubble Snaps a Star Factory at the Center of the Tarantula Nebula
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Hubble Snaps a Star Factory at the Center of the Tarantula Nebula

By Clay Dillow

A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs
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A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs

By Clay Dillow

The Thousand-Year-Old Viking Sunstone
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The Thousand-Year-Old Viking Sunstone

By Flora Lichtman

You Built What?!: A Street-Legal Three-Wheeler That Runs on Nearly 2,000 Batteries
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You Built What?!: A Street-Legal Three-Wheeler That Runs on Nearly 2,000 Batteries

By Gregory Mone

Which Continent to Put the Largest Radio Telescope On? Why Not Share It
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Which Continent to Put the Largest Radio Telescope On? Why Not Share It

By Rebecca Boyle

Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack Specific Targets
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Pentagon Announces New Strategy: Rapidly Develop Cyberweapons to Attack Specific Targets

By Clay Dillow

Video: DARPA’s Updated Humanoid Hits the Treadmill, Climbs Stairs, Does Push-Ups
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Video: DARPA’s Updated Humanoid Hits the Treadmill, Climbs Stairs, Does Push-Ups

By Clay Dillow

Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid
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Students Invent a Pothole Repair Patch Made from a Non-Newtonian Fluid

By Rebecca Boyle

The ESA Has Lost Contact With Its Earth-Observing Envisat Satellite
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The ESA Has Lost Contact With Its Earth-Observing Envisat Satellite

By Clay Dillow

What Must a Humanoid Disaster-Response Robot Do to Win DARPA’s Challenge?
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What Must a Humanoid Disaster-Response Robot Do to Win DARPA’s Challenge?

By Rebecca Boyle

How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer
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How It Would Work: Creating a Quantum Computer

By Clay Dillow

Without Smarts, New York’s ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ is Really the Taxi of Yesterday
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Without Smarts, New York’s ‘Taxi of Tomorrow’ is Really the Taxi of Yesterday

By Clay Dillow

Test Drive: the 2012 BMW 3 Series Sedan
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Test Drive: the 2012 BMW 3 Series Sedan

By Jon Alain Guzik

Breaking: Facebook Is Buying Instagram for a Billion Dollars
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Breaking: Facebook Is Buying Instagram for a Billion Dollars

By Kyle Wagner/Gizmodo

This Week in the Future, April 2-6, 2012
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This Week in the Future, April 2-6, 2012

By Baarbarian

PopSci Innovation Challenge: Tracking Electronic Waste
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PopSci Innovation Challenge: Tracking Electronic Waste

By Jacob Ward

At the New York Auto Show, a Street-Legal Airplane Steals the Spotlight
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At the New York Auto Show, a Street-Legal Airplane Steals the Spotlight

By Clay Dillow

The Best of the 2012 New York Auto Show
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The Best of the 2012 New York Auto Show

By Seth Fletcher

Photo Artists Use Filter “Normally Used by NASA” to Remove People From Crowded Urban Places
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Photo Artists Use Filter “Normally Used by NASA” to Remove People From Crowded Urban Places

By Dan Nosowitz

How It Works: The First Disposable, USB-Powered Genome Sequencer
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How It Works: The First Disposable, USB-Powered Genome Sequencer

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: A Robot With a Human Skeleton
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Video: A Robot With a Human Skeleton

By Clay Dillow

PopSci Q&A: How To Track Down International Jewel Thieves Via Facebook
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PopSci Q&A: How To Track Down International Jewel Thieves Via Facebook

By Rebecca Boyle

Enviropig, the Genetically Engineered Eco-Friendly Pork, Is Off the Table
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Enviropig, the Genetically Engineered Eco-Friendly Pork, Is Off the Table

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Design, Program, and Build a Customized Army of Robots In a Day
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Video: Design, Program, and Build a Customized Army of Robots In a Day

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: The Navy’s ‘Shoulder-to-Shoulder’ Firefighting Robot’s First Trial By Fire
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Video: The Navy’s ‘Shoulder-to-Shoulder’ Firefighting Robot’s First Trial By Fire

By Clay Dillow

Video: Controlling Your Kinect By Waggling Your Tongue
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Video: Controlling Your Kinect By Waggling Your Tongue

By Rebecca Boyle

The Internet Goes Local
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The Internet Goes Local

By Andrew Blum

Scientist Behind Earth-Shaking Neutrino Finding Resigns Due to Slowness of Subatomic Particles
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Scientist Behind Earth-Shaking Neutrino Finding Resigns Due to Slowness of Subatomic Particles

By Paul Adams

Face.com (Wildly) Guesses Your Age and Mood From Your Photo
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Face.com (Wildly) Guesses Your Age and Mood From Your Photo

By Dan Nosowitz

Ten Dollars Is Not a Lot to Pay for All of the Music Ever
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Ten Dollars Is Not a Lot to Pay for All of the Music Ever

By Dan Nosowitz

How Activist Data Mining Is Penetrating the Veil Around Syria’s Bloody Conflict
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How Activist Data Mining Is Penetrating the Veil Around Syria’s Bloody Conflict

By Rebecca Boyle

‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You
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‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You

By Clay Dillow

Video: French Electronic Musical Jello
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Video: French Electronic Musical Jello

By Dan Nosowitz

“Wonders of the Universe” App Is Your Space Textbook of the Future
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“Wonders of the Universe” App Is Your Space Textbook of the Future

By Dan Nosowitz

Video: Blind Driver Takes Google’s Autonomous Car for a Spin
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Video: Blind Driver Takes Google’s Autonomous Car for a Spin

By Rebecca Boyle

What Can a Videogame Tell Us About How Economies Work?
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What Can a Videogame Tell Us About How Economies Work?

By Jamin Warren

Telepresence Robots Will Join Doctors on Their Rounds in Singapore Next Month
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Telepresence Robots Will Join Doctors on Their Rounds in Singapore Next Month

By Clay Dillow

Video: Little Sand Flea Robot Makes Prodigious Leaps
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Video: Little Sand Flea Robot Makes Prodigious Leaps

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: The First Footage from James Cameron’s Record-Setting Dive to Challenger Deep
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Video: The First Footage from James Cameron’s Record-Setting Dive to Challenger Deep

By Clay Dillow

“Jarno Smeets” and the Physics of True Human Flight
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“Jarno Smeets” and the Physics of True Human Flight

By Adam Weiner

New Plastic Bleeds Red When Scratched, Then Heals Itself Like Skin
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New Plastic Bleeds Red When Scratched, Then Heals Itself Like Skin

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: At 800 Pounds and 45 Feet Long, The Largest-Ever Paper Airplane Takes Flight
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Video: At 800 Pounds and 45 Feet Long, The Largest-Ever Paper Airplane Takes Flight

By Clay Dillow

Petite Particle Accelerator: A Proton Gun For Killing Tumors
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Petite Particle Accelerator: A Proton Gun For Killing Tumors

By Spencer Woodman

This Week in the Future, March 19-23, 2012
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This Week in the Future, March 19-23, 2012

By Baarbarian

Video: Face-Recognition System Can Sort Through 36 Million Faces Per Second
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Video: Face-Recognition System Can Sort Through 36 Million Faces Per Second

By Paul Adams

No More GPS Voice: Haptic Steering Wheel Buzzes to Give You Directions
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No More GPS Voice: Haptic Steering Wheel Buzzes to Give You Directions

By Rebecca Boyle

Self-Powered Flying Dutchman Is Fake, Right Down to His Name
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Self-Powered Flying Dutchman Is Fake, Right Down to His Name

By Dan Nosowitz

Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot
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Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Dutchman Flaps His Arms And Flies
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Video: Dutchman Flaps His Arms And Flies

By Paul Adams

Nokia Patents a Tattoo That Vibrates When Someone Calls You
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Nokia Patents a Tattoo That Vibrates When Someone Calls You

By Rebecca Boyle

The Supersonic Jet of the Future Will Be a Biplane
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The Supersonic Jet of the Future Will Be a Biplane

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: See (and Hear) the Space Shuttle Launch Like Never Before
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Video: See (and Hear) the Space Shuttle Launch Like Never Before

By Dan Nosowitz

The Electric-Car Movement Enters A Quiet, Crucial Phase
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The Electric-Car Movement Enters A Quiet, Crucial Phase

By Seth Fletcher

Crime-Reporting App Lets You Officially Rat Out Your Neighbors Right From Your Smartphone
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Crime-Reporting App Lets You Officially Rat Out Your Neighbors Right From Your Smartphone

By Clay Dillow

Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake
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Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake

By Rebecca Boyle

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