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How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole
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How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole

By Clay Dillow

With New Technique, Tiny Robots Can Be Mass-Produced Like Pop-Up Books
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With New Technique, Tiny Robots Can Be Mass-Produced Like Pop-Up Books

By Rebecca Boyle

Dust Causes Explosions, And Apparently Nanodust Causes Mega-Explosions
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Dust Causes Explosions, And Apparently Nanodust Causes Mega-Explosions

By Rebecca Boyle

New Law Opens Civilian American Skies to UAVs, Starting In Just 90 Days
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New Law Opens Civilian American Skies to UAVs, Starting In Just 90 Days

By Clay Dillow

Video: PopSci’s Ultimate Robot Dance-Off
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Video: PopSci’s Ultimate Robot Dance-Off

By Corinne Iozzio

Video: Coffee-Filled Robot Paw Learns How to Throw
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Video: Coffee-Filled Robot Paw Learns How to Throw

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: The Swiss are Developing a Family of Small Satellites to Tidy Up Junk in Orbit
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Video: The Swiss are Developing a Family of Small Satellites to Tidy Up Junk in Orbit

By Clay Dillow

Video: Spray-On Antenna Material Turns Just About Anything into a Signal Array
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Video: Spray-On Antenna Material Turns Just About Anything into a Signal Array

By Clay Dillow

Machine Can Tell If Plants’ Genes Are Modified By Watching Them Grow
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Machine Can Tell If Plants’ Genes Are Modified By Watching Them Grow

By Rebecca Boyle

In Midst of Budget Woes, NASA Contemplates a Manned Waypoint In Orbit Near the Moon
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In Midst of Budget Woes, NASA Contemplates a Manned Waypoint In Orbit Near the Moon

By Clay Dillow

Robotics Kit Makes Building Robots as Easy as Stacking Blocks
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Robotics Kit Makes Building Robots as Easy as Stacking Blocks

By Bryan Gardiner

A Tribute to the Fifty: A Nine-Story Forging Press That Can Benchpress a Battleship
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A Tribute to the Fifty: A Nine-Story Forging Press That Can Benchpress a Battleship

By Clay Dillow

Free To a Good Home: One Space Telescope, Still In Orbit
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Free To a Good Home: One Space Telescope, Still In Orbit

By Rebecca Boyle

The All-Electric BMW Active E
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The All-Electric BMW Active E

By Jon Alain Guzik

Video: Robotic Lego Forearm Can Wave Hello and Pour You a Drink
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Video: Robotic Lego Forearm Can Wave Hello and Pour You a Drink

By Rebecca Boyle

German Physicist Flies First Manned Electric Multicopter
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German Physicist Flies First Manned Electric Multicopter

By Amber Williams

Six Inventors Visualize the Ultimate Toy
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Six Inventors Visualize the Ultimate Toy

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Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person?
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Can Treating Your Life As a Game Make You a Better Person?

By Matthew Shaer

Double Fine Productions Smashes Kickstarter Record, Raises $400,000 in Eight Hours for Next Videogame
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Double Fine Productions Smashes Kickstarter Record, Raises $400,000 in Eight Hours for Next Videogame

By Dan Nosowitz

A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds
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A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds

By Ben Austen

The Air Force is Buying iPads To Replace Pilots’ Books and Maps
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The Air Force is Buying iPads To Replace Pilots’ Books and Maps

By Rebecca Boyle

Tiniest Telecommunications Laser Ever Made, 200 Nanometers Wide
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Tiniest Telecommunications Laser Ever Made, 200 Nanometers Wide

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Creepiest Mirror Ever Displays Ghostly Animal Heads Mimicking Your Facial Expression
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Video: Creepiest Mirror Ever Displays Ghostly Animal Heads Mimicking Your Facial Expression

By Rebecca Boyle

The EU is Considering Using Drones to Police Farm Subsidies, Enforce Environmental Rules
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The EU is Considering Using Drones to Police Farm Subsidies, Enforce Environmental Rules

By Clay Dillow

Video: DARPA’s Legged Squad Support System (a.k.a. Big Dog) Goes Outside to Play
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Video: DARPA’s Legged Squad Support System (a.k.a. Big Dog) Goes Outside to Play

By Clay Dillow

Video: President Obama Test-Fires a Marshmallow Cannon at the White House Science Fair
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Video: President Obama Test-Fires a Marshmallow Cannon at the White House Science Fair

By Clay Dillow

UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains
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UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains

By Clay Dillow

iRobot’s 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field
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iRobot’s 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field

By Clay Dillow

Attempt at the World’s Highest Skydive, from 120,000 Feet, is Rescheduled for August
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Attempt at the World’s Highest Skydive, from 120,000 Feet, is Rescheduled for August

By Clay Dillow

This Cuddly Phase-Change Robot Will Keep You Warm at Night
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This Cuddly Phase-Change Robot Will Keep You Warm at Night

By Rebecca Boyle

MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible
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MIT Scientist Offers $100,000 to Anyone Who Can Prove Quantum Computing Is Impossible

By Dan Nosowitz

Inside the Brand-New High-Tech Rainbow Warrior
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Inside the Brand-New High-Tech Rainbow Warrior

By Brooke Borel

Augmented Reality Will Help Future Astronauts Perform Surgery on Each Other
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Augmented Reality Will Help Future Astronauts Perform Surgery on Each Other

By Rebecca Boyle

State of Play: The World’s Most Amazing Playgrounds
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State of Play: The World’s Most Amazing Playgrounds

By Geoff Manaugh

83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant
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83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant

By Rebecca Boyle

Cool Plasma Torch Kills Germs on Raw Chicken
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Cool Plasma Torch Kills Germs on Raw Chicken

By Paul Adams

The Seventh-Generation Porsche 911 is Lighter, Faster and More Efficient
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The Seventh-Generation Porsche 911 is Lighter, Faster and More Efficient

By Lawrence Ulrich

Video: PopSci’s Favorite Japanese Fembot Gets a Modeling Job at the Mall
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Video: PopSci’s Favorite Japanese Fembot Gets a Modeling Job at the Mall

By Clay Dillow

Chili Crab Dinner Inspires Robot That Crawls Down Your Throat To Grab Your Cancer
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Chili Crab Dinner Inspires Robot That Crawls Down Your Throat To Grab Your Cancer

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: To Enable the Robo-Insects of the Future, Researchers Capture Butterfly Flight at 3,000 FPS
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Video: To Enable the Robo-Insects of the Future, Researchers Capture Butterfly Flight at 3,000 FPS

By Clay Dillow

DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
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DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses

By Clay Dillow

Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines
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Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines

By Clay Dillow

Mitt Romney: The Uncanny Candidate?
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Mitt Romney: The Uncanny Candidate?

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Swarm of Tiny Quadcopters Do a Delicate Dance
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Video: Swarm of Tiny Quadcopters Do a Delicate Dance

By Clay Dillow

Video: People Flying, Superhero Style, Over New York City
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Video: People Flying, Superhero Style, Over New York City

By Clay Dillow

Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists
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Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists

By Clay Dillow

Hip-Hop Basslines Could Power Implantable Medical Devices
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Hip-Hop Basslines Could Power Implantable Medical Devices

By Rebecca Boyle

Mars Rover Curiosity, on its Way to the Red Planet, Finds Out What a Solar Storm Feels Like
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Mars Rover Curiosity, on its Way to the Red Planet, Finds Out What a Solar Storm Feels Like

By Clay Dillow

Video: A New ‘Smart Bullet’ Deploys Fins and Guides Itself to a Laser-Designated Target
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Video: A New ‘Smart Bullet’ Deploys Fins and Guides Itself to a Laser-Designated Target

By Clay Dillow

Video: Mixing 21st-Century Cocktails with Dave Arnold at Booker & Dax
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Video: Mixing 21st-Century Cocktails with Dave Arnold at Booker & Dax

By Paul Adams

The Photographs of Fritz Goro, One of the Best Science Photographers of All Time
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The Photographs of Fritz Goro, One of the Best Science Photographers of All Time

By Dan Nosowitz

How D-Dalus Flies Like Nothing Else
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How D-Dalus Flies Like Nothing Else

By Kaitlin Miller

The New York Public Library Helps You Turn 100-Year-Old Photographs Into 3-D GIFs
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The New York Public Library Helps You Turn 100-Year-Old Photographs Into 3-D GIFs

By Dan Nosowitz

Video: Researchers Produce the First High-Quality 3-D Images of an Individual Protein
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Video: Researchers Produce the First High-Quality 3-D Images of an Individual Protein

By Clay Dillow

The World’s First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles
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The World’s First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles

By Clay Dillow

World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Super-Heats Aluminum Foil to 3.6 Million Degrees
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World’s Most Powerful X-Ray Laser Super-Heats Aluminum Foil to 3.6 Million Degrees

By Rebecca Boyle

Pirate Bay Starts Offering Tangible 3-D Objects For Download
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Pirate Bay Starts Offering Tangible 3-D Objects For Download

By Dan Nosowitz

DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication: Reading Users’ Minds
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DARPA Has a Simple Solution to Authentication: Reading Users’ Minds

By Clay Dillow

A Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a Radiation Storm
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A Massive Solar Eruption, the Strongest in 7 Years, Has Earth Bracing for a Radiation Storm

By Clay Dillow

Tiny Tunable Terahertz Beam Could Enable Real Handheld Tricorders
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Tiny Tunable Terahertz Beam Could Enable Real Handheld Tricorders

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: DARPA Rubs a Flame With an Electric Wand to Extinguish It
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Video: DARPA Rubs a Flame With an Electric Wand to Extinguish It

By Dan Nosowitz

In Its First Night Flight, the F-35 Soars at Sundown
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In Its First Night Flight, the F-35 Soars at Sundown

By Clay Dillow

Tested: A Chemical Time Machine Makes Whiskey Taste Older, Faster
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Tested: A Chemical Time Machine Makes Whiskey Taste Older, Faster

By Paul Adams

This Week in the Future, January 16-20, 2012
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This Week in the Future, January 16-20, 2012

By Baarbarian

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