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This Newer, Stronger 3-D Printed Gun Costs Just $25

Defense Distributed’s plastic, 3-D printed “Liberator” single-shot handgun was here for a moment and then it was gone in more than one sense. For one, the news cycle turned over. Moreover, the State Department came down o...
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How Toys Are Preparing Kids For A Future With Robotic Friends

For Christmas in 1993, my father gave me a My Magic Diary, a children’s version of Casio’s digital organizer. From that point on, I always had some iteration of that device—whether a PalmPilot or the iPhone 5 I carry toda...
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3 Robots That Want To Save Your Life

Thanks to their mechanical strength and ability to operate in conditions too dangerous for humans, robots are poised to become the rescuers of the future. Here are three promising designs that could soon work alongside first re...
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NASA Invests In 3-D Food Printer For Mars Missions

It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get whatever they wanted at the push of a button? NASA is funding an ambitious 3-D printing food project that wants to make that happen, Quartz repor...
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Oklahoma Students Design Drones That Can Fly Into Tornadoes

The best way for researchers to get information about a tornado is to send sensors high up into the storm—a maneuver that is too dangerous for a manned aircraft and, up until now, has been too complex for most remote-controll...
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Russia’s ‘Space Ark’ Returns All Of Its Lizards And Half Its Mice Safely To Earth

Less than half of the rodents, lizards, fish, and other small animals that were lofted skyward last month made it back alive, but nonetheless Russian researchers are calling their so-called “Space Ark” mission–the lon...
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Another Big Milestone For The X-47B: Its First Touch And Go Landing

The Navy’s unmanned and autonomous X-47B continues to hit new milestones. Less than a week after completing its first catapult launch from a carrier deck last Tuesday the Unmanned Combat Aerials System (UCAS) executed its fir...
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South Pole Lab Detects Elusive Deep-Space Neutrinos For The First Time

It looks like the IceCube Observatory neutrino detector at the South Pole has found what it was looking for just two years after opening. Neutrinos are strange subatomic particles that travel through the galaxy in straight line...
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Yahoo! Officially Acquires Tumblr For $1.1 Billion

Marissa Mayer, the new-ish CEO of Yahoo, announced this morning (though the purchase had been approved by Yahoo’s board a few days earlier) that Yahoo will purchase Tumblr, the image-centric blogging and social network be...
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