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An Accessory That Replaces Mouse Movements With Hand Waves
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You Built What?!: An Electric-Assist Chopper-Style Bicycle
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How An Underfunded Team Of Spanish Astronomers Could Help Solve The Mystery...
Looking BackGary S. Chapman/Getty ImagesAstronomers hunt for dark energy by comparing the universe now to how it was soon after the big bang.Since 1998, when astronomers discovered that a mysterious...
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A New Artificial Heart Pump That Mimics the Real Thing
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Science Of Theft: Freeze A Bike Lock With Canned Air, Then Smash It With A...
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How A Tiny Group Of Designers Built The Most Efficient Racecar In History
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An Accessory That Replaces Mouse Movements With Hand Waves
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You Built What?!: An Electric-Assist Chopper-Style Bicycle
DIY A 180-pound, 8.5-foot-long Frankencycle Cat Woodmansee didn't want to commute by car or train, but the 50-year-old Silicon Valley software engineer wasn't up to pedaling his bicycle 60 miles a day...
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How An Underfunded Team Of Spanish Astronomers Could Help Solve The Mystery...
Technology For less than $10 million, the team is trying to figure out one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy Since 1998, when astronomers discovered that a mysterious force known as dark energy...
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Project Of The Month: The Soldering Gun
DIY Not violent, just handy. Mike Warren, an editor at DIY website instructables.com, wanted a tool that was fun and unusual for projects that require soldering electronics. His solution? Disassemble a…
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A New Artificial Heart Pump That Mimics the Real Thing
Science Today's artificial hearts contain pumps whose spinning rotors can damage blood cells, causing clotting that can lead to strokes. A new pump design could prevent that damage…
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Science Of Theft: Freeze A Bike Lock With Canned Air, Then Smash It With A...
DIY The fatal flaw of bike locks: Freezing one makes it easy to bust open. Check out video of some DIY bike theft inside. Strong, hard, tough. These sound like different ways of saying the same thing,...
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How A Tiny Group Of Designers Built The Most Efficient Racecar In History
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PopSci's High School Inventors Of 2012
Science Ten amazing projects built by teens. Every year thousands of high school students take part in national and regional science fairs. PopSci scours those events to find 10 students with truly...
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A New View Of The Solar System
Technology Michael Benson combines images from space to make art. Michael Benson has created God's own view of the universe. Michael Benson has created God's own view of the universe.
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