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Japan Plans to Send its Own Tweeting Humanoid Robot to the ISS in 2013
Technology

Japan Plans to Send its Own Tweeting Humanoid Robot to the ISS in 2013

Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp
Vehicles

Introducing Kestrel, The First Road-Ready Car Built Out Of Hemp

Success! The Internet Buys Detroit a Robocop Statue
Internet

Success! The Internet Buys Detroit a Robocop Statue

Enormous Solar Flare Set to Slam into Earth Tonight, Disrupting Communications
Technology

Enormous Solar Flare Set to Slam into Earth Tonight, Disrupting Communications

Brace for impact

From NACHOS to MAHEM: Naming The World’s Most Advanced Military Tech
DARPA

From NACHOS to MAHEM: Naming The World’s Most Advanced Military Tech

What's in a name? For DARPA, acronyms are more than just shorthand

Researching Stress, Scientists May Have Accidentally Found Baldness Cure
Health

Researching Stress, Scientists May Have Accidentally Found Baldness Cure

New Device Uses Electromagnetic Pulses to Detonate IEDs From a Safe Distance
Army

New Device Uses Electromagnetic Pulses to Detonate IEDs From a Safe Distance

Using X-Ray Laser, Researchers Image a Single Virus, Destroying It In The Process
Health

Using X-Ray Laser, Researchers Image a Single Virus, Destroying It In The Process

Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks
Evolution

Video: Creepy Madagascan Beasts Rub Their Back Hairs Together To Make Squeaks

Weird tenrecs caught on camera for the first time

Google Rolls Out a Browser-Based Content Farm Blocker, Helping Users Sort the Wheat from the Chaff
Technology

Google Rolls Out a Browser-Based Content Farm Blocker, Helping Users Sort the Wheat from the Chaff

Russia Is Ready to Plunge Into Risky Arctic Drilling Projects, In Partnership With BP
Science

Russia Is Ready to Plunge Into Risky Arctic Drilling Projects, In Partnership With BP

What could possibly go wrong?

Vise Cakes: Making a Grain Puffer on the Cheap
Projects

Vise Cakes: Making a Grain Puffer on the Cheap

The hosts of Food Jammers show how to make a version of a multimillion-dollar commercial grain puffer for about 50 bucks. See the video inside

By Shining a Laser From the Ground, Researchers Could Easily Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field
Environment

By Shining a Laser From the Ground, Researchers Could Easily Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field

Satellites, step aside

New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X
Deep Space

New NASA Designs for a Reusable Manned Deep-Space Craft, Nautilus-X

Nautilus includes a centrifuge and inflatable parts

Tonight, Jeopardy Champions Take on IBM’s Supercomputer Watson
Technology

Tonight, Jeopardy Champions Take on IBM’s Supercomputer Watson

AI in prime time

Unseen Currents: A Blind Oceanographer Chases Undersea Storms
Weather

Unseen Currents: A Blind Oceanographer Chases Undersea Storms

On the Labrador Sea, the scientific crew of the research vessel Knorr hunts for underwater storms, sinks a two-mile mooring--and gathers clues to the planet's fate

All the Digital Data In the World Is Equivalent to One Human Brain
Internet

All the Digital Data In the World Is Equivalent to One Human Brain

Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In
Medicine

Making the Connections: Reconstructing Biosystems From the Outside In

The human genome was just the start

Private Space Industry Could Pay For Military Communications and Commercialized Mars Missions
Private Space Flight

Private Space Industry Could Pay For Military Communications and Commercialized Mars Missions

Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights the Battle of the Sexes
Science

Archive Gallery: PopSci Fights the Battle of the Sexes

PopSci attempts to determine, once and for all, which is the superior gender