Month: May 2013
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Science
Bioshock’s ADAM Is Real?!: Pink Slugs Found In Australia
Okay, so I may have lied in my headline: scientists haven’t discovered a sea slug that produces DNA-altering stem cells…
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Science
Cordyceps: The Most Terrifying Fungus You’ve Ever Seen
Think zombie apocalypses are impossible? Wrong! They happen all the time. To insects. Meet Cordyceps. This is a fungus that…
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Weird
4 Weird “Clues” That Parallel Universes Exist
The scientific possibility of parallel universes first arrived with Hugh Everett III’s Relative State Formulation in 1957. Not long after,…
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Time Travel
Top 5 Celebrity Time Travelers
What’s the number one rule of time travel? Don’t ever let anyone take your picture! How many times do we…
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Tech
NASA Grants Funding for Food Printer, Orders A Pizza
NASA has just awarded a $125,000 grant to Anjan Contractor to create a 3D printer that prints…food. The printer, based…
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Tech
Are You Ready for Our Future Robot Utopia?
Two articles recently popped up exploring the future of robotics, human-brain interfaces, and the economics of a robot-driven society. Where…
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Science
They’re Crazy, They’re Ants: “Crazy Ants” Invade Southeast U.S.
Residents of the Southern United States may have grown tired of the problematic and bitey nature of fire ants, but…
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Science
Witness 1,046 Meteorites Fall to Earth with BOLIDES
No, that’s not a screenshot from some new version of Missile Command. It’s called BOLIDES, a website project that animates…
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Yesterday's Myths & Mysteries
The Drombeg Stone Circle of Ireland
In County Cork, Ireland, near the country’s southern coast, lies the Drombeg stone circle, a megalithic monument also known as…
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Science
How Much Radiation Is In A Single Banana?
Your bananas are irradiated. Don’t worry; they’re perfectly safe. But the average banana contains at least 0.1 micro sieverts (0.1…
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