1. Learning The Elements Cartoon Style - Comments
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Proof that everything is easier to learn when presented via Pokemon-style. Artist Kacie D. lovingly anthropomorphized every single element, which deserves to be converted into a children’s book.
4. Shodan: The scariest search engine on the Internet - Comments
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Shodan is the world’s first computer search engine that lets you search the Internet for computers. Find devices based on city, country, latitude/longitude, host name, operating system and IP. “Shodan is a search engine for hackers both good and bad. Sho
10. Defense Contractors Find Effeciant Way To Purify Salt Water - Comments
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A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater, potentially making it vastly cheaper to produce clean water at a time when scarcity
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1. WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942
1. WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942
(Millions of poignant black-and-white photos have come out of the World War Two era, but it is not often that scenes from the deadliest conflict in human history can be seen in living color. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294284/WWII-)
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2. How Massive Stars Form: Simple Solution Found
2. How Massive Stars Form: Simple Solution Found
(The existence of massive stars — up to a whopping 120 times the mass of the sun — has long perplexed astronomers.)
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3. The Door To Hell
3. The Door To Hell
(In 1971 while drilling in Turkmenistan geologists hit a pocket of methane gas and rather than venting it they set it on fire 49 years later its still burning.)
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5. Messenger Spacecraft About To Orbit Mercury
5. Messenger Spacecraft About To Orbit Mercury
(At 8:45 EDT NASA's Messenger spacecraft will fire its thruster for nearly 14 min. slowing the spacecraft by 862 meters per second to move into orbit around Mercury at a minimum altitude of 200 kilometers.)
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6. Building a Schizophrenic Computer
6. Building a Schizophrenic Computer
(To try to understand how schizophrenia affects the brain, scientists tweaked a computer system until it began to exhibit the same symptoms as a schizophrenic human mind. )
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7. New Photos Of The Sun
7. New Photos Of The Sun
(A new series of false-color images of the Sun released by NASA. )
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8. Earthquake Shakes Ice From Glacier
8. Earthquake Shakes Ice From Glacier
(The magnitude 6.3 earthquake that ravaged Christchurch, New Zealand, on February 22, 2011, also broke a 30 million-ton piece of ice off the Tasman Glacier.)
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9. Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed
9. Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed
(Two forthcoming European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. )
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10. Parts of Canada Is Missing Gravity
10. Parts of Canada Is Missing Gravity
(Large parts of Canada has less gravity then normal, here are the theories why.)
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1. Dark Matter Filament Detected Near the Milky Way
1. Dark Matter Filament Detected Near the Milky Way
(A group of galaxies 15 mil light years from ours has stood out to Scientists because despite no apparent interaction they display synchronized activity which may have stemmed from accretion of intergalactic gas by dark matter surrounding the galaxies.)
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2. CD Player In Space
2. CD Player In Space
(You'd be surprised what happens when you turn on a diskman in the space station.)
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3. Algae Killing Birds, Sealife in California
3. Algae Killing Birds, Sealife in California
(A bloom of ocean algae that produces a toxic acid has sickened and killed hundreds of birds, sea lions and dolphins in California, environmentalists said.)
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4. Libyan Rebels 'Recapture Brega'
4. Libyan Rebels 'Recapture Brega'
(Libyan rebels say they have regained control of the oil town of Brega, hours after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's troops had seized it. )
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5. World's First Anti-Laser
5. World's First Anti-Laser
(Physicists have built the world's first device that can cancel out a laser beam - a so-called anti-laser.)
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6. Underground 'Ocean' Found Under Asia
6. Underground 'Ocean' Found Under Asia
(There is about the equivolent of the Arctic Ocean's water in moisture-containing rocks.)
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7. Pelican Eats A Pidgeon
7. Pelican Eats A Pidgeon
(I've never seen a pelican take on such a large meal.)
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8. Google Tricks
8. Google Tricks
(Some handy search tips for Google.)
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9. Dark Energy And The Inverse Square Law
9. Dark Energy And The Inverse Square Law
(“Newton’s inverse-square law has been around for a while,” Daniel Kapner tells PhysOrg.com. “But, by testing this law, we’re looking for new physics.”)
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10. Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead
10. Gulf Bottom Still Oily, Dead
(Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist's video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn't degrading as hoped and has decimated life on parts of the sea floor.)
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