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To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film
Science

To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Science

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Little Clara's tetranitratoxycarbon is brand new and explosive

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?
Biology

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?

A Canadian researcher says she has debunked controversial claims that a microbe found in California's Mono Lake can replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic

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

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

Hilarious “Theory of Everything” Paper Provokes Kerfuffle
Science

Hilarious “Theory of Everything” Paper Provokes Kerfuffle

Journal editor resigns after publishing "an incommensurable, trans-disciplinary, neologistical, axiomatic theory of life from quantum gravity to the living cell"

FYI: Do Animals Dream?
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FYI: Do Animals Dream?

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

Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists

Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
Science

Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?

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

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

Radiation data gathered by the rover's instruments could inform future manned spacecraft designs

Zapping Testicles With Ultrasonic Pulses Shown To Be Effective Contraceptive
Health

Zapping Testicles With Ultrasonic Pulses Shown To Be Effective Contraceptive

This Week in the Future, January 23-27, 2012
Science

This Week in the Future, January 23-27, 2012

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

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

Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Meatpacking Plant
Agriculture

Building a Vertical Farm in an Old Chicago Meatpacking Plant

Growing kale and tilapia--and brewing beer--in an abandoned stretch of Chicago

How D-Dalus Flies Like Nothing Else
Aviation

How D-Dalus Flies Like Nothing Else

How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space
Space

How Disposable, Networked Satellites Will Democratize Space

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

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

Hacking the electron microscope

The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich
Moons

The Moon Should Be the 51st State, and Other Space Dreams From Newt Gingrich

How Men Can Decode Women’s Menstrual Cycles
Science

How Men Can Decode Women’s Menstrual Cycles

The clues are in her voice

The World’s Only Iridescent Mammal Is Blind and Lives Underground
Animals

The World’s Only Iridescent Mammal Is Blind and Lives Underground

What's the point of being shiny if nobody can see you?

A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science
Diseases

A New Moratorium on Research Into Engineered Avian Flu: What It Means for Science

Is some research so dangerous it shouldn't be done at all?