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NASA releases color video of Curiosity's dramatic descent

By Amar Toor on August 7, 2012 02:29 am + 135 comments

After having successfully landed on the Mars yesterday, NASA's Curiosity rover has now begun Continue reading…
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Modern popular music does all sound the same, and it's getting louder too

By Andrew Webster on July 30, 2012 10:17 am + 73 comments

If you've ever turned on the radio and thought that all popular music sounds the same, it turns out Continue reading…
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Scientists restore light sensitivity in blind mice using simple chemical injection

By Vlad Savov on July 26, 2012 07:06 am + 9 comments

Eyesight restoration has deservedly been the subject of much research over the years, but the latest Continue reading…
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Scientists create artificial jellyfish from rat's heart

By Justin Rubio on July 22, 2012 07:31 pm + 57 comments

One day at the New England Aquarium in Boston, biophysicist Kit Parker saw a jellyfish and said "I Continue reading…
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Watch this: 'God, the Universe and Everything Else' with Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking and Arthur C. Clarke

By Aaron Souppouris on July 22, 2012 03:09 pm + 32 comments

What better way to spend an hour than watching three of the greatest minds of our time discussing Continue reading…
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Stanford's computational cell model lets scientists experiment virtually

By Evan Rodgers on July 20, 2012 05:31 pm + 7 comments

Stanford scientists have created a full computational model of the Mycoplasma genitalium bacteria, Continue reading…
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Controlling sound with light: French scientists use lasers to generate quantum vibrations

By Evan Rodgers on July 16, 2012 03:41 pm + 7 comments

Last Friday, two scientists at the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon, France published a Continue reading…
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Nuclear scientists building sapphire discs that will store data for millions of years

By Evan Rodgers on July 13, 2012 04:24 pm + 50 comments

Millions of years from now, when time has eroded current language and culture, how will we warn Continue reading…
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Building a Handcrafted Particle Accelerator

By Jeff Blagdon on July 12, 2012 06:49 am + 8 comments

You’re not alone in thinking that the things going on at the Large Hadron Collider are a little Continue reading…
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UCLA-developed camera can detect cancer cells in real time

By Andrew Webster on July 9, 2012 04:10 pm + 6 comments

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have managed to turn the world's fastest Continue reading…