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Behold, the Toothbrush That Just Saved the International Space Station
Astronauts aboard the ISS find a low-tech way to solve a high-tech problem. Here is the high-tech implement that helped repair a damaged ISS. (NASA) It was a little like Apollo 13 -- if its mission to...
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What Will Happen If the Feds Get Warrantless Access to Phone Location Data
We already know what is possible with the location data stored on our phones, thanks to some cutting-edge academic research.Last year, Alexis Madrigal made this map of his whereabouts based on data...
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How to Brush Your Teeth on the International Space Station
The ISS crew just repaired their vehicle with a simple, earthly toothbrush. Here's why they had one aboard in the first place. NASA/Mir-23 researcher Jerry Linenger brushes his teeth in the Spektr...
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Here, but Not Here: Photographs of Families Held Together by Love, Skype
We live in a world in which some of the people we are closest to are often not near us at all.When we document our day-to-day existence in photographs and Instagrams, these people are absent. Their...
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How Google Builds Its Maps—and What It Means for the Future of Everything
An exclusive look inside Ground Truth, the secretive program to build the world's best accurate maps.Behind every Google Map, there is a much more complex map that's the key to your queries but hidden...
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O, Bezos! Found Poetry From the Big Amazon Kindle Reveal
Behold, the lyric genius of Amazon. The Verge This afternoon, in a former airplane hangar in Santa Monica, California, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos revealed updates to the company's Kindle lineup, including...
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NASA Satellite Captures First Glimpse of Curiosity's Tracks From Martian Orbit
The little rover is on the go, and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter was there to document it. NASA's Curiosity rover has been sending back awesome images of the Martian surface since it landed on the...
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The Mesmerizing Beauty of Nature's Fractals
Nature mingles with math, to breathtaking results. Google Earth/Spain Google Earth: source of information, source of wonder, source of art. In 2010, Paul Bourke, a research associate professor at the...
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Thank God Someone Finally Stepped In and Explained the Internet to Women
Women: Have you been struggling to use a computer? And forget about the Internet -- too hard. Good news: a series of books will help, you just need to speak French. You don't have to remind me: The...
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The Password Fallacy: Why Our Security System Is Broken, and How to Fix It
Our password system is broken, and it's about time we change it. What if the idiosyncrasies of our touch-screen gestures could serve as our passwords? (shoo/Shutterstock) For the few that haven't yet...
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The New Math of the Modern Workplace
New Math is an attempt to quantify the world using words and basic math. #atlGallery .galleryNav { display:none;} #atlGallery .galleryHeader{ height:400px; border-width:0px; !important } #atlGallery...
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Soundscapes of Smog: Researchers Let You Hear the Pollution of Cities...
*Listen* to some of America's most pristine and polluted airways. Oakland's Caldecott Tunnel (allaboutgeorge/Flickr) In the flat lands of California's Central Valley, oil pumps obscured by waving lines...
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Alan Turing, Code-Breaking Genius, Wasn't Very Good at Monopoly
Bletchley Park releases a game reminiscent of the one the code-breaker himself used to play. Bletchley Park Alan Turing was unparalleled as a cryptographer, as a computer science pioneer, as an...
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Mars Curiosity Rover Takes a Selfie
This is the shot we've all been waiting for: the first time that our robot on Mars would rotate its camera and snap an image of its Short Circuit-like head.This is, as the kids would say, a "selfie," a...
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You'll Love Me When I'm Gone: Photographs of Our Melting Glaciers
This summer could be dubbed The Great Melt. The belt of ice surrounding the Arctic has melted to its lowest level in history, a record seen by many scientists as evidence of long-term climate change....
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Swabbing and Hoping: How NASA Keeps Germs From Colonizing Mars
The agency tries to keep humans from inadvertently populating other planets. A close-up shot of halophiles and methanogens, part of a hardy group of microbes called extremophiles, which thrive in the...
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Uh-Oh! Something Went Terribly Wrong on Mars
Animation studio Trunk brings us a charming joke about space -- and cats! -- in the form of a very short video with a gruesome punch line. Just watch: For more work by Trunk, visit...
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The Story of the Only American Not on Earth on September 11th
Astronaut Frank Culbertson watched from the Space Station as the attacks unfolded on the ground. When astronauts describe the feeling of sailing around space, looking at our planet from hundreds of...
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Why the First Laptop Had Such a Hard Time Catching On (Hint: Sexism)
It wasn't just a high price that kept businessmen away from early portable computers. The GRiD Compass laptop aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (Wikimedia Commons) The legendary designer Bill...
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Nostalgia for Obsolete Technology Meets DIY Culture in the USB Typewriter
Jack Zylkin, an engineer, hooks antique typewriters up to modern computers and tablets to create functioning writing machines -- and then sells them on Etsy. It's almost a perfect storm of hipster...
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