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You can now 3D-print a fully operational handgun
A plastic gun made on a 3D printer has been successfully fired. What's more, its developer has released the blueprints online, meaning anyone with the right 3D printer can create a gun of their own,...
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Scientists combine bird and swine flus to create mutant airborne virus
Researchers in China have created a batch of designer viruses by selectively combining genes from the H5N1 bird flu virus with those of the H1N1 swine flu strain. This reassortment process — which can...
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Only a chemistry student would organize Lord of the Rings like this
It's called The Periodic Table of Middle-Earth and it was put together by Emil Johansson — a devoted Tolkien fan and an aspiring chemical engineer. Which this awesome chart makes blazingly obvious. As...
View ArticleThis guillotine simulator is the most twisted use of Oculus Rift yet
Ever wonder what it would be like to have your head chopped off? Well, you may soon get the chance to find out. A group of independent developers has created a guillotine simulator using the Oculus...
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Are we screwing ourselves by transmitting radio signals into space?
For nearly a hundred years, Earth has sent radio signals into space. If anyone nearby is listening, they probably know we’re here. In light of this, a new paper assesses the potential danger presented...
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The first sign of the pending penguin apocalypse!
While it looks like an unprovoked attack by zombie penguins, these are actually Falkland Gentoo penguins returning home through a sandstorm. The photograph was taken by Michael Lohmann — and it has...
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Terrafugia's revamped flying car should be ready by 2021. No, really.
Before even releasing its first flying car, Terrafugia has already begun work on its successor, the TF-X — a much sexier four-seat hybrid capable of vertical takeoff. The company also announced that...
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This may be the oldest dome-headed dinosaur ever discovered
Paleontologists from Canada have unveiled a newly identified species of a dog-sized pachycephalosaurs. It’s considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered in North America — and quite possibly the...
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The ‘glass is a liquid’ myth has finally been destroyed
By studying a glob of 20 million-year-old amber, scientists have proven once and for all that glass does not flow. Some people claim that stained glass windows in old churches are thicker at the...
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How the human brain sees a 100-mph fastball
Given how slowly our brains react to incoming visual information, it should actually be impossible for us to hit a blistering fastball. But we can. That's because, instead of showing us the world as...
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New AI uses the Internet to identify unfamiliar things
Researchers at Japan's Tokyo Institute of Technology have updated their SOINN machine learning algorithm so that it can now use the Internet to identify items it's never encountered before. SOINN has...
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This is what it looks like to have the future pull up beside you
It's not every day you have to give way to a car that lacks a human driver. This picture was taken in the Berkeley area and posted to Reddit by user ilovepixar. Given that Google has at least 10...
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Is this the real story behind the Atacama 'alien' mystery?
Last week we told you about the surprising conclusion reached by a Stanford University professor suggesting that the remains of the alien-like Atacama skeleton belonged to a human between the ages of...
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A human driver + a Google engineer in the passenger seat.
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Did NASA send the Curiosity Rover to the wrong place?
A new study suggests that Mars’s 3.5-mile high Mount Sharp formed as strong winds carried dust and sand into the crater in which it rests. If true, Gale Crater probably never contained a lake, which...
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Which animal can hear the highest-pitched sounds?
As anyone with a dog whistle knows, the range of human hearing is hardly anything to get excited about. But when it comes to picking up extremely high frequencies, there’s one particular creature that...
View ArticleWatch this robotic worm assemble itself. Oh, and it was 3D printed.
Sure, this adorable little inchworm robot looks cute. But just wait for the day when more sophisticated versions start printing and assembling themselves from scratch — and all without human...
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