This Week in the Future, October 24-28, 2011
When it gets too hot, weird things happen. Like de-shelled hermit crabs fighting massive parameciums for piles of 3-D printed...
When it gets too hot, weird things happen. Like de-shelled hermit crabs fighting massive parameciums for piles of 3-D printed shells and/or synthetic diamonds. THIS IS THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME.
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- Climate Skeptic Sponsors New Climate Study, Confirms ‘Global Warming Is Real’
- Hermit Crabs Need You To 3-D Print New Shells For Them
- Diamond Industry Invests in Lab-Created Knockoffs For Semiconductors
- Video: Single-Celled Creatures As Big As Your Fist Found in Mariana Trench
- iPod Creator Introduces Cute Home Thermostat That Learns Your Habits
And don’t forget to check out our other favorite stories of the week:
- Archive Gallery: The Telephone
- The Most Amazing Science Images of the Week, October 24-28
- Gallery: Last Night’s Auroras as They Appeared from Across the Hemisphere
- Ground-Based Laser Cannon to Turn Space Debris into Self-Powered Flaming De-Orbiting Rockets
- Your Living Conditions as a Child May Be Detectable In Your DNA for Life
- New X Prize Is a Race To Sequence the Genomes of One Hundred One-Hundred-Year-Olds
- Video: Supercooled Quantum Levitating Hoverboard Lets Students Glide on Air
- Fukushima Fallout Was Almost Twice as Bad as Official Estimates, New Study Says
- iPhone 4S Review: Apple’s Restraint
- Nokia Announces the First Great-Looking Windows Phone
- Inside the DIY Weapons Workshop of the Libyan Rebels
- You Built What?! A Six-Foot-Long Camera That Shoots Enormous Photos
- Video: Flying Sphere-Shaped Drone Wows Crowds in Tokyo