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The Un-Wagon Wagons
A World Without Steering Wheels is Google’s Best Idea Yet
Bandage Changes Color to Indicate State of Wound Underneath
How The World Cup’s Brain-Controlled Exoskeleton Works [Video]
Reverse-Engineering The Technology Of D-Day
Robonaut 2 Sentenced to Additional Month In Crate
Big Men on Their Tiny Tractors
DARPA wants designs for robotic warships that won’t need a crew
New Chinese 052D Destroyers, 3 In A Row At A Shipyard
DARPA’s Future Li-ion Batteries Will Be Smaller Than Grains of Salt
GPS Chips Installed in Endangered Rhinos’ Horns To Combat Poaching
Video: Incredibly Precise Robot Bowler Gets Beaten by Professional Human Bowler
World’s First Fully Robotic Surgery Performed In Montreal
Regulation Won’t Kill The Sharing Economy. We Just Need New Rules.
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Jul 8, 2014
ALTB FAIL: Airborne Laser Weapon Fails Second Test Firing in a Row
SpaceX Unveils First Manned Spacecraft
Now Discovery Has a Fuel Leak; Delayed Another 48 Hours At Least
The Week In Drones: Martha Stewart, Himalayan Glaciers, And More
In First Test of Interstellar GPS, Team Uses Distant Pulsars to Determine Position in Space
The Sound From Ships May Attract Unwanted Critters
With New Face-Scanning Technology, Movies Will Soon Watch You While You Watch Them
Plan for Celebrity-Stalking Paparazzi Drone Reveals New Roles for Unmanned Civilian Aircraft
Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
Airbus A380’s Engine Disintegrates Over Indonesia, Manages to Land Safely
File-Sharing Group Mulls a Floating Pirate Ship of Servers in the Sky
Astronaut Registers First Foursquare Check-In From Outer Space
New Underwater Robot Pursues Biological Specimens Over Long Distances
New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
Air Force Seeks Neuroweapons To Enhance US Airmen’s Minds and Confuse Foes
Foul Weather Could Delay Discovery’s Launch Another Day, Or Another Month
After $19 Billion Spent Over Six Years, Pentagon Realizes the Best Bomb Detector Is a Dog
Affordable DIY MRI Shows How We Really Breathe
New Holographic Device Can Record and Display 3-D Holograms in Near Real Time
Video: Virgin Galactic, Plus Special Guest, Dedicates Spaceport America and its Two-Mile Runway
Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, Scientist Makes a Bot to Argue For Him
Electrocardiogram-Equipped Cell Phone Allows Remote Monitoring
Where International Standard Units Come From, Part Three: The Candela
The PopSci Smackdown: What the eggheads are fighting about.
Who invented automotive windshield wipers?
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May 8, 2002
A New Idea For Colonizing Space: Send Our DNA, Assemble Ourselves Once We Get There
Discovery Launch Delayed Until Thursday Afternoon at the Earliest
Canoo’s upcoming electric pickup truck will offer modular storage and adorable aesthetics
Scan Artist
A Robot With Coffee-Filled Balloons For Hands Is The Best Grabber Yet
Video: LaserMotive’s Laser-Powered Quadrocopter Hovers for 12 Hours Straight
After a Short Delay, Shuttle Discovery’s Final Mission is Go for Launch [Updated]
Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers
Turning Retired Military Jets into Next-Gen Nano-Satellite Launchers
Pump-Powered Antennas Could Replace Metal Communications Arrays with Fountains of Saltwater
Again, Space Station Has to Be Moved Out of The Way of Space Junk
Robot Truck Convoy Tested In Nevada
Video: DARPA and Boeing’s DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane
Video: Creepy Japanese Expression-Mimicking Robot Hangs Out In Hospitals, “Comforting” Patients
FYI: Could We Use Retired Space Shuttles as Space Stations?
Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
Pru External Battery Trailer Adds 700 Extra Miles of Range to Electric Cars
Midterm Election Videos May Set New Record For Internet Traffic
Jacques Cousteau’s Grandson Is Spending 31 Days Under The Sea. Ask Him Anything!
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Jun 3, 2014
To move cargo with less mess, these ships unload themselves
The Week In Drones: Phantoms, Peacekeeper, Polluter Policing, And More
Two-In-One Wires Could Turn Clothes Into Batteries
Amid Strained Trade Relations with China, Japan Strikes Rare-Earths Deal with Vietnam
Body-to-Body Networks Could Let You Be Your Own Cellphone Tower
New Breakthroughs In Diode Technology Can Take Electronics Far Beyond Silicon
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