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Posted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 3:00:00 pm
Two hundred years ago, the Passenger Pigeon was the most common bird in North America. Single flocks numbered in the billions of birds. The problem
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Posted on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 @ 4:30:00 am
This Hybrid Assisted Limb suit, or HAL for cute, detects the weak biosignals emitted through your skin whenever you try to move, interprets those signals,
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Posted on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 @ 7:00:00 am
Google Earth opened up the world to map geeks. The Hologlobe promises the next level: a miniature world you can roll around and zoom in
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Posted on Sunday, April 19, 2009 @ 4:58:47 am
First there was radio, which was free, which was good. Then there was satellite radio, which wasn't free, but was sorta better and sorta commercial-free,
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Posted on Thursday, April 16, 2009 @ 7:30:36 am
This incredible image from Space.com was created by the energy around a dying star, with the catchy name of PSR B1509-58 (the bright white blob
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 9:00:00 am
We've sure come a long way since 1609, when Galileo first trained a telescope on the Medici daughters the heavens. From Galileo's first handheld device
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Posted on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 4:51:07 am
The Colbert Nation has spoken...Stephen demanded to have a module of the new International Space Station named after him, and NASA has acquiesced to their
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Posted on Thursday, March 05, 2009 @ 6:30:00 am
Dig your fingers deep into this mushy orange goo...Under normal conditions, it acts like normal everyday pond slime. But on high-speed impact, the d30 gel's
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Posted on Sunday, March 01, 2009 @ 6:40:08 am
Those "eyes" are not its eyes...they are its nostrils, more or less, though it doesn't breathe air. The green double blob that looks like its
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Posted on Wednesday, February 25, 2009 @ 11:30:00 am
Like all maps, we're not sure just how useful this is, but it's fun to look at-a map of the world showcasing its dangerous carbon
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Posted on Wednesday, February 18, 2009 @ 4:30:00 am
Dozens of witnesses saw this fireball streaking out of the sky, flashing brightly as it neared the horizon. It was initially assumed to be debris
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