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Untouched For The Last Billion Years, Water In Canadian Mine Holds Ingredients For Life

Scientists digging around roughly one-and-a-half miles below the Earth’s surface in an Ontario mine may have just discovered the oldest free-flowing source of isolated, untouched water ever known. Though they don’t know if ...
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Everything You Need To Know About Today’s Google I/O Keynote

Google announced a bunch of stuff today at the annual I/O conference in California. The announcements are mostly updates–nothing as exciting as the introduction of Google Glass or a new tablet–but there are lots of ...
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Laser Scanner Can Detect Someone Watching You A Kilometer Away

U.S. defense contractors spend a lot of resources developing robots that help the Pentagon’s various services keep an eye on their enemies, but San Diego-based Torrey Pines Logic is developing a small robotic sidekick that he...
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NASA’s Kepler Spacecraft May Be Finished

The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. –Johannes Kepler The storied Keple...
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Scientists Create First Cloned Human Embryo

Scientists have made an embryonic clone of a person, using DNA from that person’s skin cells. In the future, such a clone could be a source of stem cells, for super-personalized therapies made from people’s own DNA....
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Google Should Include A Self-Destruct Button On Every Android Phone

Today at the 2013 Google I/O conference in California, Google announced that the company would begin selling the Samsung Galaxy S4, the newest in the most successful Android phone line on the planet, themselves. When you buy a ...
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What Information Can The Justice Department Get From Your Phone Records?

Yesterday the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice used subpoenas to collect telephone calling records for many of their journalists and editors. In doing so, the AP brought light to an interesting cris...
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Autonomous X-47B Jet Fighter Makes Historic First Launch From An Aircraft Carrier

ABOARD THE USS GEORGE H.W. BUSH, ATLANTIC OCEAN–All that was left on the carrier deck was a cloud of white steam wafting over a flight crew that was visibly bursting with excitement even with faces concealed behind bulky ...
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Was the 2013 World Press Photo Of The Year A Fake?

In February, the winner of the prestigious World Press Photo of the Year award came under fire after allegations surfaced that it had been significantly altered. The organization has stood by the photo, but a forensic image ana...
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