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9 Ways Humanity Could Bring About Our Own Destruction
It won't be because of a Maya prophesy, but humanity may actually meet its doom someday. There is no shortage of threats from the natural world, including asteroid impacts and the eruption of...
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The Bayou Corne Sinkhole: A massive oil and gas disaster you’ve probably...
Earlier this spring, residents of a rural community in Louisiana's Assumption Parish noticed mysterious bubbles rising to the surface in some bayous. Shortly thereafter, a series of small earthquakes...
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U.S. spy agency predicts a very transhuman future by 2030
The National Intelligence Council has just released its much anticipated forecasting report, a 140-page document that outlines major trends and technological developments we should expect in the next...
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Check out Pablo Picasso's hypnotic 'light drawings' from 1949
Back in 1949, LIFE magazine's Gijon Mili paid Pablo Picasso a visit at his home in the South of France. Mili, who was a technical prodigy and lighting innovator, showed Picasso some of his photos of...
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Why you should probably stop eating wheat
Wheat and grain-based foods are all around us. We love our bagels, pasta, bread, and breakfast cereals. For many, the thought of eliminating these staples from our diets seems wholly unreasonable, if...
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Archaeologists at 'Pompeii of Japan' site find a 1,400 year-old warrior still...
Archaeologists working at Japan's Kanai Higashiura site have unearthed the remains of a Kofun-period warrior and infant — both of whom were killed in a volcanic eruption. The bodies were covered in a...
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U.S. had plans for a ‘full nuclear response’ should the President disappear...
Well, this is a bit disturbing: According to recently declassified documents made available by the U.S. National Security Archive, the United States had a contingency plan in effect where, in the...
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Oculus Rift VR headset to be used in Sinful Robots 'erotic encounters' video...
Fully immersive brain-jacked virtual reality sex may still be a few decades away, but we're inching closer with each passing year. The latest news on this crucial technological front comes in the form...
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What you need to know about e-cigarettes
As tobacco use continues its inexorable fall from grace, a growing number of people are turning to electronic cigarettes. These nifty electrical inhalers are being seen — and sometimes even marketed —...
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North Korea’s Kim Jong-un celebrates rocket launch with a smoke
Two days ago, North Korea finally lobbed a weather satellite into orbit, officially marking their entry into space. And as if to say, "About freakin TIME," a photograph has emerged showing Kim Jong-un...
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China's plan to build a massive 120 million-square-foot city — from scratch
The Chinese government has approved the final design for a massive planned city scheduled for construction along the rim of a 3.85 kilometer (2.4 mile) lake. Upon completion, Meixi Lake City will...
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NASA captures ominous video of the three-mile-long asteroid that buzzed us...
On December 12, the three-mile-long (4.8 km) asteroid Toutatis came within 4.3 million miles (6.9 million km) of Earth — which is about 18 lunar distances. During the flyby, NASA used its...
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Scientists build a biological pacemaker by injecting a modified virus into...
Our heartbeats are triggered by a steady stream of electrical signals, which cause our heart muscles to contract with a regular rhythm. For some people, however, the ‘pacemaker cells' responsible for...
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Famous robots come out of the woodwork in new GE ad, including our favorite...
Remember all those weird and seemingly inexplicable robot sightings we reported on last month? As suspected, it was all part of an elaborate viral marketing campaign — we just weren't sure who was...
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Did a Canadian hobbyist just crack the World War II carrier pigeon message?
Early last month we told you about the recent effort to decrypt a secret World War II message found on the remains of a military pigeon. Since work started the team has made zero progress and they're...
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Popular Mechanics makes 110 predictions for the next 110 years
To commemorate its 110th anniversary, Popular Mechanics has put together an epic list of 110 predictions for the next 110 years. And as editor-in-chief Jim Meigs admits, making predictions is not easy...
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How to take care of a blind baby rhino
Meet Nicky, an impossibly cute blind baby rhino that is currently under the care of Mike Watson and his team of conservationists at Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya. Nicky has been living with them...
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Deformed skulls discovered in 1,000-year-old Mexican cemetery
Archaeologists digging in a 1,000-year-old pre-Hispanic cemetery in Mexico's South Sonora have uncovered a series of skeletons featuring signs of cranial deformation. The practice, which is well...
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Astronomer discovers three potentially habitable planets orbiting around one...
Canadian astronomer Philip Gregory has confirmed that there are three habitable zone planets orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 667C. The star, which is part of a trinary star system, is only 22...
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Could nuclear disarmament actually increase our chance of an apocalypse?
Most everyone agrees that humanity needs to get rid of its nuclear weapons. It's only through complete relinquishment that we can eliminate the threat of deliberate or accidental nuclear war and the...
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