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Strategies for a Changing Planet: Food
Environment

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Food

It won't be easy, but there are ways to make the food production math add up

For $10,000 on Kickstarter, Google Lunar X-Prize Contender Will Land Your DNA on the Moon
Technology

For $10,000 on Kickstarter, Google Lunar X-Prize Contender Will Land Your DNA on the Moon

Kicking Off the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup With Student-Made Kinect Projects
Technology

Kicking Off the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup With Student-Made Kinect Projects

Duck Hunt for stroke victims, a shopping cart that follows you around, a new and improved way to learn sign language, and more from Microsoft's student ideas competition

New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone
NASA

New Studies Say No, Life Can’t Live on Arsenic Alone

Last year's finding that "alien" Californian bacteria thrive on arsenic instead of phosphorus contradicted in new papers

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Shelter
Climate Change

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Shelter

Climate change will drive people to urban areas, and smarter cities will be needed to shelter them

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Awareness
Climate Change

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Awareness

We're on a collision course with extreme weather. It's time to acknowledge that, and to prepare

This Week in the Future, July 2-6, 2012
Science

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

Space Helps Worms Live Longer–What About Humans?
Health

Space Helps Worms Live Longer–What About Humans?

The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, July 2-6, 2012
Science

The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, July 2-6, 2012

Video: Build Your Own Food Helper Gadgets
Projects

Video: Build Your Own Food Helper Gadgets

An Android-powered pot stirrer and an Xbox controller snack extruder

Japanese Inquiry Declares Fukushima Crisis “A Profoundly Man-Made Disaster”
Technology

Japanese Inquiry Declares Fukushima Crisis “A Profoundly Man-Made Disaster”

A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature
Physics

A Diamond Quantum Bit Holds Data for Nearly Two Seconds at Room Temperature

FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?
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FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?

Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing
Particle Physics

Hello, Higgs Boson: LHC’s New Particle Looks Like the Real Thing

How 'Higgsy' is this particle? More work needs to be done

Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Review: Fly Higher, Farther, and More Intuitively
Drones

Parrot AR.Drone 2.0 Review: Fly Higher, Farther, and More Intuitively

Parrot's second-gen recreational drone packs new hardware that makes for a smoother, more controlled piloting experience

As Deadly White-Nose Syndrome Ravages Bat Population, Bats Change Social Strategy to Survive
Environment

As Deadly White-Nose Syndrome Ravages Bat Population, Bats Change Social Strategy to Survive

Inventions: The Piano That Tunes Itself
Technology

Inventions: The Piano That Tunes Itself

Tuning a piano, unlike other instruments, is a job for professionals. But what if it could tune itself?

Physicists and Geneticists Team Up to Build a Galactic Dark-Matter Detector out of DNA
Technology

Physicists and Geneticists Team Up to Build a Galactic Dark-Matter Detector out of DNA

Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider
Particle Physics

Tantalizing Signs of Higgs Boson Found By U.S. Tevatron Collider

A Plan For Airships That Might Finally Take Off
Aviation

A Plan For Airships That Might Finally Take Off

Sky Captain and the World of Today