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These Speakers Use Ultrasonic Waves To Cut Through The Noise
Speakers

These Speakers Use Ultrasonic Waves To Cut Through The Noise

Like lasers for your ears

When the river runs yellow
Conservation

The Truth Behind The EPA’s Animas River Spill Is Messier Than You Think

Despite best intentions, a toxic legacy roars back to life in Colorado

Eating Carbs Helped Humans Develop Big Brains
Nutrition

Eating Carbs Helped Humans Develop Big Brains

Take that, Atkins diet

Google Is Testing Drones Under NASA’s Supervision
Technology

Google Is Testing Drones Under NASA’s Supervision

Project Wing returns to California

Home-Brewed Synthetic Opioids Are Finally A Reality
Health

Home-Brewed Synthetic Opioids Are Finally A Reality

No poppies required

Biotech Company Is Developing Transplantable Pig Organs For Humans
Health

Biotech Company Is Developing Transplantable Pig Organs For Humans

Pigs are good for more than just bacon

First Octopus Genome Sequence Reveals Clues About Camouflage And Big Brains
Animals

First Octopus Genome Sequence Reveals Clues About Camouflage And Big Brains

Superbowl-prediction gene not yet found

Massive Explosion In Tianjin, China
Technology

Massive Explosion In Tianjin, China

Cause unknown; "not nuclear," says expert

Kim Kardashian’s Instagram Is Only The Latest Victim Of FDA Campaign
Technology

Kim Kardashian’s Instagram Is Only The Latest Victim Of FDA Campaign

OMG. Have you heard about this?

Better Know A Plague: Legionnaires’ Disease
Diseases

Better Know A Plague: Legionnaires’ Disease

The old-timey-sounding illness has now infected more than 100 people in New York. What is it?

A Hack For Cutting Pipes Perfectly [Video]
Projects

A Hack For Cutting Pipes Perfectly [Video]

Hackett's trick to get even edges

Riding A Shrinking Comet Toward The Sun
Space

Riding A Shrinking Comet Toward The Sun

What to expect as the Rosetta mission follows Comet 67P to its closest encounter with the Sun

Falling Up: Why Former Googler Alan Eustace Broke the World Free-Fall Record
Aviation

Falling Up: Why Former Googler Alan Eustace Broke the World Free-Fall Record

Meet the pioneer of what might become balloon-based space tourism

China Cruise Missile TEL
Military

China’s New Mystery Missile And Launcher

It's much, much bigger

The Microbial Economics of Cheating in Cystic Fibrosis
Diseases

The Microbial Economics of Cheating in Cystic Fibrosis

A bacterium in Cystic Fibrosis patients appears to cheat on its counterparts

Here’s How HTC and Samsung’s Fingerprint Scanner Was Hacked
Security

Here’s How HTC and Samsung’s Fingerprint Scanner Was Hacked

Biometric data left out in the open

Digital Map Of Seafloor Could Help Scientists Predict Climate Change Impacts
Ocean

Digital Map Of Seafloor Could Help Scientists Predict Climate Change Impacts

The secrets are in the sediment

How Military R&D Created The Food We Eat
Military

How Military R&D Created The Food We Eat

A new book tracks today's convenience foods back to the wars they came out of

Green veined white butterfly
Environment

Drought Could Shrink Butterfly Species In The UK By 2050

But restoring habitat may help

Do You Have Horizontally Slit Pupils? You Might Be A Prey Animal
Evolution

Do You Have Horizontally Slit Pupils? You Might Be A Prey Animal

Goat style versus cat style