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Nuclear fusion is the holy grail of scientists (and politicians) as it could produce limitless free energy without nasty consequences like meltdowns and radioactive waste. Though nobody’s been able to build a reactor that produces more energy than it…
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Throughout the history of blankets, hiding behind one to escape the boogeyman has been a largely pointless tactic. Now, however, an Oklahoma company has developed a blanket that’ll protect you against fictional monsters as well as the very real…
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In an effort to design spacecraft tailored for missions to Mars, scientists at NASA are taking a page right out of your run-of-the-mill science fiction novel: The space agency is preparing to test a flying saucer.
Technically, NASA’s new toy is called the Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), and scientists plan to test-drive the craft Thursday in Hawaii. (Other potential launch dates include June 7, 9, 11, and 14.) The LDSD will collect data about landing heavy payloads on Mars and
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A hundred and one years ago, in 1913, the famous British mathematician G. H. Hardy received a letter out of the blue. The Indian (British colonial) stamps and curious handwriting caught his attention, and when he opened it, he was flabbergasted. Its pages were crammed with equations – many of which he had never seen before. There were many kinds of formulas there, and those that first caught his attention had to do with algebraic numbers. Hardy was the leading number theorist in the world – ho
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Are you the type of person who forgives easily? Or do you mull over the the offending incident for months or even years to come? Although it can be easy to pick out friends or coworkers who hold grudges from those who forgive, it turns out that scientists don’t understand much about why the two groups differ. Here, scientists tested whether forgiving makes people more likely to forget the details of the incident. The researchers presented subjects with hypothetical incidents and asked whethe
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New Kinect-free edition unlocks memory bandwidth reserved for Microsoft’s camera sensor
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We use our phones while driving far more often than we should. It is our GPS, way of asking Auntie what the directions are, texting our friends, and method of looking up local eateries around our destination. However, we do this while we’re driving a one-ton death machine. If you want to keep your phone out of your hands, but still need it to find your way, then you’ll want …
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