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Skoda Fabia vRS "Mean Green"
Ad for the Skoda Fabia vRS
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Wormhole Created in Lab Makes Invisible Magnetic Field
Physicists have created a so-called magnetic wormhole that transports a magnetic field from one point to the other without being detected.
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Earworms: Can They Be Killed?
According to new research around 9 out of 10 of us have experienced earworms lasting an hour or longer.
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Gravity’s Oldest Puzzles — Starts With A Bang!
Our understanding of gravitational dynamics is very good. With it we can send probes to distant worlds such as Pluto to an accuracy of a dozen kilometers. But sometimes our models don’t quite match reality. These astrometric anomalies are small and subtle, but they sometimes lead to a new understanding of the universe.
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Send Your Name to Mars on NASA's InSight Mars Lander Mission
Mars enthusiasts around the world can participate in NASA’s journey to Mars by adding their names to a silicon microchip headed to the Red Planet aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander, scheduled to launch next year.
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Celestial firework marks nearest galaxy
A spectacular bull’s-eye collision that has resulted in a ring galaxy has been discovered lurking behind the Milky Way.
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Arup’s Glass sky pool will be suspended ten storeys above London
Developer Ballymore today announced a world’s first - a glass sky pool spanning two apartment blocks in its Nine Elms urban regeneration development next to Battersea Power Station in London.
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A Dream Undone
Inside the 50-year campaign to roll back the Voting Rights Act. By Jim Rutenberg.
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Lagrange Points: Parking Places in Space
A Lagrange point is a location in space where the interaction between gravitational and orbital forces creates a region of equilibrium where spacecraft can maintain constant orbits.
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Voting System: Overview of Upcoming Functionality for Release 5.3
Over the past several weeks we have received a lot of really helpful feedback pertaining to the improvement of our voting functionality. We realized that due to a number of complex architectural and community factors the basic up/down voting approach is no longer the most effective way to leave accurate feedback, or for that matter help in the moderation of content.
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Hiroshima
How six survivors experienced the atomic bomb and its aftermath. By John Hersey. (August 31, 1946)
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Remains on Matterhorn are Japanese climbers gone since 1970
Remains found at the foot of Switzerland's Matterhorn glacier are identified as two Japanese climbers who disappeared 45 years ago.
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After the Bomb, a War on Information
In the months after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the U.S. government tried to cover up what it had done. By Susan Southard.
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3D Xpoint memory: Faster-than-flash storage unveiled
A new kind of memory technology is going into production, which is up to 1,000 times faster than the Nand flash storage used in memory cards and computers' solid state drives (SSDs).
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Around Iceland with a drone
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NASA Mars Trek
Mars Trek is a NASA web-based portal for exploration of Mars. This portal showcases data collected by NASA at various landing sites and features an easy-to-use browsing tool that provides layering and viewing of high resolution data.
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27 Things You Didn't Know About The SR-71 Blackbird
You could start the SR-71's engines with a couple of Buicks.
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Correlation does not imply causation
15 examples of why correlation doesn't imply causation. It is a logical fallacy to equate correlation with causation, to assume that because A and B occur together, A causes B.
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The UAB Mix - How “open-label” placebos turn fake pills into real treatment
For a large number of participants in these “open-label" placebo trials, knowing that their “treatment” is an inert pill doesn’t stop them from feeling relief. Now, a group of researchers at UAB and Harvard University are taking these studies into a new patient population: cancer survivors. For men and women struggling with the crushing fatigue that often emerges in the years after treatment, the power of placebos may be just what they need.
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X-Ray Laser Reveals Ultra-Fast Molecular Changes
Imagine your video camera shooting at a frame-rate in the quadrillionths of a second. The Linac Coherent Light Source, an X-ray free-electron laser at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, has measured how a ring-shaped gas molecule unravels in the millionths of a billionth of a second after it is split open by light. Stacking the measurement data in sequence drove this computer animation of molecular motion.
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The invention that could revolutionize batteries—and maybe American manufacturing too
The world has been clamoring for a super-battery. Since about 2010, a critical mass of national leaders, policy professionals, scientists, entrepreneurs, thinkers and writers have all but demanded a transformation of the humble lithium-ion cell. Only batteries that can store a lot more energy for a lower price, they have said, will allow for affordable electric cars, cheaper and more widely available electricity...
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The Charleston Shooter: Racist, Violent, and Yes – Political
How could it not be political, when the Republican Party has weaponized its supporters and made violence a virtue?
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100 year old trench from WW1
Even today, a century after the start of the Great War (WWI), the countryside still bears scars. This photograph reveals the trenches’ scars still run deep.
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Bazinga! Lego announces 'Big Bang Theory' set
'The Big Bang Theory' is getting its very own Lego set.
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Big Question: Why Can Silence Make You Hear Things That Aren't There?
Sometimes all it takes to trigger your own hallucinatory symphony is a prolonged silence.
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The Extraordinary Story Of "The Crystal Maze", The Most Epic Game Show Ever Made
It was an insanely ambitious, hugely risky, budget-breaking spectacle like nothing British television had ever seen before. Now, 25 years after its debut, the show's creators tell how they made an accidental masterpiece.
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Fully Restored WWII Fighter Plane Up for Auction
A British warplane that was shot down in 1940 during World War II and was later meticulously restored to flying condition is slated to hit the auction block this summer.
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Computer scientists prove 80s pop music is boring
Computer analysis says new wavers like Duran Duran (pictured here), arena rockers like Van Halen and dance pop stars like Madonna marked a period of low diversity.
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100 Famous Restaurant Recipes You Can Replicate at Home
Unless you were a master chef with a keen sense of taste, these recipes were lost to you until the internet came along and provided those with the ability to reproduce recipes and post them for the world to see.
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Idaho Sunrise (Eggs & Bacon Potato Bowls) Recipe
Try this Idaho Sunrise (Baked Eggs & Bacon In Potato Bowls) recipe today!
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