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Should We Establish National Parks On Mars?

There’s an old proverb that states “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” And if some in the scientific community have their way, that sentiment will extend to other planetary bo...
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The Flu Virus Can Tell Time. Here’s Why You Should Care

The insidious little virus making so many Americans sick this winter has a newly discovered potential weakness we might be able to exploit. Influenza can tell time, and it choreographs its actions according to a strict schedule...
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A Snapshot Of Human Migration Around The World [Infographic]

The dawn of agriculture is often cited as the beginning of modern civilization, since it allowed people to live for a long time in one place and build large societies, but one thing it didn’t change was our species’...
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How To Prevent America’s Next Train Crash

The evening of January 5, 2005, was dry and cool in Graniteville, South Carolina. At 6:10, a 12-car Norfolk Southern freight train pulled up to the Avondale Mills textile plant, and Jim Thornton, a conductor with 18 years’ ex...
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FAA Grounds All Boeing 787 Dreamliners Following Yet Another Failure

After smoke was found pouring into one of its Boeing 787 “Dreamliner” planes yesterday, forcing an emergency landing, Japan’s All Nippon Airways grounded its entire fleet of 787s. Japan’s Transport Minis...
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You Built What?!: The World’s Fastest Baby Carriage

News of impending fatherhood affects men in different ways. Some guys pump their fists. Others light cigars. A few flee. When 33-year-old Colin Furze learned that his girlfriend was pregnant, he channeled his paternal excitemen...
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Whoa What: All US iPhone Users Can Now Make Free Phone Calls Via Facebook

Facebook just let loose with a new update to the Messenger app for iPhone, which until now was restricted to text messaging, sort of like AOL Instant Messenger or GChat. Now it’s something totally different: it’s a ...
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The Disco Clam Has A Built-In Strobe Light

The disco clam is truly one of the most tragic of nature’s creatures. It uses it reflective lip to control an awesome strobe-light show, but it has no real appendages to dance with. So if not for dancing, why does the cla...
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The 9 Best Cars From The 2013 Detroit Auto Show

No one has ever accused the auto industry of rushing madly into the future. For every superclean electro-diesel-charged concept at an event like Detroit’s North American International Auto Show, there are approximately 15 Hem...
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