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A Harvard Neuroscience Scheme To Change Decisions In Your Brain

This week at the British Neuroscience Association, Harvard scientist Gabriel Kreiman described a rather diabolical-sounding experiment: He wants to reverse someone’s decision to push a button before the person is even awa...
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A Box With A Hidden Video Camera Documents Its Own Journey Through The Mail

Recently I found myself in need of shipping several valuable and highly breakable items, and I dreaded what would become of them after their boxes left my care. Would the invisible conveyor belts, giant bins and beshorted UPS g...
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Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste Behind

A newly found faraway galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54 is the most efficient star maker ever seen, using up almost all of the gas available to it. Other galaxies are more profligate with their gas, only using some of it and leaving t...
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These QR-Code-Inspired Children’s Pajamas Are Apparently A Real Thing

“Gee,” the hyper-intelligent children of this Brave New World of ours must often think, “I sure wish Mommy and Daddy had a smartphone-based way of reading me bed-time stories! Perhaps in some way that utilized...
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FBI To Internet Providers: Spy For Us Or Face A $25,000 Fine

A new FBI proposal would compel internet communications companies to hand over information–or pay a fine. Existing wiretap law is almost 20 years old and doesn’t capture the nuances of modern internet use. The Commu...
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Your Brain Catches Grammar Errors Even When You Don’t Realize It

The brain does all kinds of amazing things while you’re not paying attention (you know, like regularly remind you to breathe). But it’s also engaged in less critical but equally interesting tasks, like correcting the gramma...
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Xbox One: Here’s What We Know About Microsoft’s New Console

Today, Microsoft unveiled its new console, Xbox One, from its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. There’s still going to be news coming out between now and another announcement at E3 in June (which we’ll be at), bu...
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The Seventh-Generation Porsche 911 is Lighter, Faster and More Efficient

Since unveiling the 911 Carrera in 1963, Porsche has built many dozens of variations, ranging from convertibles to racing editions to subtly tweaked versions distinguishable only to board members of the Porsche Club of America....
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Captured: The First-Ever Images of Atoms Moving Inside a Molecule

Ohio State University researchers have captured the first-ever images of atoms moving within a molecule using a novel technique that turns one of the molecules own electrons into a kind of flash bulb. The technique has yielded ...
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