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Russian Soyuz grounded again, SpaceX Dragon may be next to ISS

Russian Soyuz grounded again, SpaceX Dragon may be next to ISS

Well, this is no good: testing has revealed cracks in the Soyuz landing capsule that Russia was supposed to launch to the ISS, rendering it decidedly un-spaceworthy. The launch date has been rescheduled until April or May, meaning that SpaceX's Dragon capsule might be the next arrival at the ISS. MORE
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Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people

Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people

Here in the U.S., we're used to thinking about solar power as one of those happy eco-friendly things that we'd all totally be using except for the fact that it's so much more expensive than fossil fuels. In the developing world, though, it's exactly the opposite: solar power is gaining ground with 1.3 billion people simply because it's the cheapest way to go. MORE
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Ultimate Battlefield 3 PC mod serves drinks, fires on command

Ultimate Battlefield 3 PC mod serves drinks, fires on command

Hands down, this is the best Battlefield 3 PC case mod I've ever seen. Created by Brian "Bodakker" Carter, the mod has two things PC gamers would fawn over: a mini fridge for a cold soda or beer and a rotating mini chain gun. Um, the totally heavy-duty military-looking case and flip switches are cool, too.

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Giant solar flares are a great way to clean up space junk

Giant solar flares are a great way to clean up space junk

Solar flares offer us treats like spectacular low-latitude auroras, but NASA says they have practical applications, too: namely, increased solar activity can swat space junk out of orbit. MORE
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Asus prototyping laptops with built-in Kinect sensors

Asus prototyping laptops with built-in Kinect sensors

With a sea of Ultrabooks coming out soon and Windows 8 on track for a release by the end of the year, it's time PC makers start differentiating themselves. Tobii's eye-tracking tech is really cool, and word on the block is that Asus is working to integrate Kinect sensors directly into laptops. MORE
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Chinese boy with blue eyes has natural night vision like a cat

Chinese boy with blue eyes has natural night vision like a cat

Call it suspicious, but this Chinese boy is being paraded around the Internet as the next-step in human evolution. With strange blue eyes that "glow green" when light hits them and the so-called ability to see in the dark, is this Chinese boy the real-life version of Richard B. Riddick? MORE
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Modern still life art now interactive, and not so still after all

Modern still life art now interactive, and not so still after all

Still life art has been popular for centuries. Groupings of every day objects, sometimes so realistically rendered they seem to jump off the canvas. This art form has now been reinvented for a modern generation by injecting a dose of DIY geekery to create a 4D still life users can actually interact with. MORE
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Starship Enterprise table can dock in your living room

Starship Enterprise table can dock in your living room

This article is dedicated to the man who lost his lovingly created Star Trek pad in his divorce. Hopefully a lovingly hand-crafted, hardwood NCC-1701-C table like this might be ease some of his pain settling into bachelor digs.

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Nintendo adds NFC technology to its Wii U tablet controller

Nintendo adds NFC technology to its Wii U tablet controller

Nintendo shook things up in the gaming world once again by announcing that it's Wii U controller knows a new trick: Near Field Communication (NFC). With contact-less tech, Nintendo plans to create new gaming experiences with NFC cards, figurines and even have the controller accept micro payments. MORE
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Scratch-n-sniff technology makes its way into jeans

Scratch-n-sniff technology makes its way into jeans

For those who are laundry averse, this news will be met with glee…a denim company has recently released jeans with scratch-n-sniff technology. They look like the kind of jeans any ordinary hipster would wear with one key difference — the coating of micro capsules that hold a scent. Raspberry scent to be precise. MORE
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Image of the Day: cloud streets

Image of the Day: cloud streets

Here's a gorgeous view of cloud streets off of the Aleutian Islands. So, what exactly are we viewing? MORE
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GPS tracking for grave sites lets you keep track of the departed

GPS tracking for grave sites lets you keep track of the departed

I can't help but look at this latest device as yet another thinly veiled attempt to hedge our bets against the inevitable zombie apocalypse. Believe or not, a company has reportedly started selling GPS satellite tracking devices for the dead. MORE
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Robots ring in the Chinese New Year with a disco dance-a-thon

Robots ring in the Chinese New Year with a disco dance-a-thon

New Year is a huge thing in China, so to kick off The Year of the Dragon, Chinese TV's The Big Show showed off this amazing 14 robot dance troupe. MORE
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Is it time for a cassette revival? These guys think it is

Is it time for a cassette revival? These guys think it is

The revival of interest in vinyl records has been fascinating to watch over the last few years, but who would have thought that the lowly audio cassette, the format that essentially replaced vinyl, would get its own nostalgia trip?

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MIT's City Car is now real, but not for you unless you can share

MIT's City Car is now real, but not for you unless you can share

MIT has been working on their clever little foldable, stackable City Car concept for nearly half a decade now, and they've finally made a real one. It's destined for Europe in 2013, but not for individuals: to drive one, you'll have to be willing to share. MORE
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Sniffable horomone found to make people more sociable, like a drunk

Sniffable horomone found to make people more sociable, like a drunk

Alcohol has long been revered for its power to get pretty anyone, after enough, to dance the "Macarena." It turns out that the hormone oxytocin might do the same thing — help people feel more extroverted — without the problems associated with alcohol, such as drunk driving, physiological damage and ordering pizza at 3 A.M. MORE
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We might be able to test if neutrons are visiting other universes

We might be able to test if neutrons are visiting other universes

It's fun to toss around theories about how there might be other universes out there, and there may even be some evidence that at least four of them have smashed headlong into our universe. You'd think proving that this is the case would be tricky, but neutrons may be taking trips to other universes all the time. MORE
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Protests didn't stop Europe from signing off on a SOPA look-a-like

Protests didn't stop Europe from signing off on a SOPA look-a-like

In the U.S., harsh criticism and massive Web protests may have taken SOPA and PIPA down (but not out), but abroad, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (aka ACTA) looks like it's picking up steam despite coming under fire. ACTA's noble goal is to establish international standards to better protect intellectual property — yet its detractors say it opens a wide door to Internet censorship.

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First holographic image of single protein created (and why that's cool)

First holographic image of single protein created (and why that's cool)

There's an old saying that sometimes, the person you know least is yourself. And this is certainly true when it comes to the proteins that build the human body, as scientists know the shape of less than two percent of them. Fear not, some researchers have finally found a non-destructive method for imaging single proteins (and did so, with ferritin). MORE
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Steam releases app that'll let you burn cash on tons of PC games

Steam releases app that'll let you burn cash on tons of PC games

These days, everybody needs to have an iOS or Android app. Joining the pack is Valve the official Steam companion app. Finally. MORE
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