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High-Intensity Laser Will Redirect Lightning Strikes

Lightning is one of the most powerful displays of electrostatics in nature. Its strikes have always been unpredictable, causing everything from house fires to death by striking individuals directly. Scientists at the University of Arizona…

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Bill Gates Funds the Birth of Graphene Condoms

Manchester, England, was the birth place of the Industrial Revolution, home to the father of atomic theory, John Dalton, and the father of modern computing, Alan Turing, not to mention Karl Marx, the contraception pill…

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Dastardly Japanese Robot Wins “Rock, Paper, Scissors” 100% of the Time

Janken, an upstart robot at Tokyo University’s Ishikawa Oku Laboratory is, without a doubt, the best Rock, Paper, Scissors (“Jan, Ken, Pon” in Japanese) player in world history; the game came down to us from…

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Crank It Up! This Radio is Powered by a Crop of Moss.

We all know that soothing music has a profound impact on the growth of plants. A group of scientists from the University of Cambridge has harvested moss-grown electricity to power a FM radio. They say…

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Totally Awesome 80’s Inspired 3D Printed Shoes You Can Make at Home

3D printing is no doubt a revolutionary technology and is about to transform every single aspect of our lives. Nowadays, 3D printing machines can print objects out of almost any material – from nylon to…

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At-Home 3D Cosmetics Printer about to Makeover $80 Billion Beauty Market

“Click To Print” Powders, Creams, Lipsticks, & More Grace Choi wants to level the playing field when it comes to the $80 billion cosmetic industry. According to Choi, 85% of cosmetics are purchased in big…

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Brits’ Burn Garbage to Produce “Biogas” Jet Engine Fuel

In what might have once been a “royal scandal”, British Airways is getting ready to burn garbage to produce fuel to power its modern jets. It has been called garbage power, biogas, landfill, gasification, feedstock…

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Prehistoric Plants Brought ‘Back to Life’

About 400 million years ago, early terrestrial vegetation had begun to spread. Trees and ferns hadn’t figured themselves out yet. The vegetation was quiet different from today. The plants did not have roots and many…

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Exelon Corp. to Buy Pepco Holdings Inc. for $6.8 Billion in Cash

The largest United States nuclear operator, Exelon Corp, just got even larger, recently agreeing to buy Pepco Holdings Inc. for $6.8 billion in cash. This is significant news as it represents the biggest utility acquisition…

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Powdered Alcohol Stirs Up Controversy

What happens when you combine alcohol with powder? You get Palcohol. Essentially, Palcohol is made like creating flavored water with sugar packets but Palcohol creates hard liquor after mixing it with water. It’s being called…

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Engineering

High-Intensity Laser Will Redirect Lightning Strikes

Bill Gates Funds the Birth of Graphene Condoms

Dastardly Japanese Robot Wins “Rock, Paper, Scissors” 100% of the Time

Crank It Up! This Radio is Powered by a Crop of Moss.

Totally Awesome 80’s Inspired 3D Printed Shoes You Can Make at Home

At-Home 3D Cosmetics Printer about to Makeover $80 Billion Beauty Market

Brits’ Burn Garbage to Produce “Biogas” Jet Engine Fuel

Prehistoric Plants Brought ‘Back to Life’

Exelon Corp. to Buy Pepco Holdings Inc. for $6.8 Billion in Cash

Powdered Alcohol Stirs Up Controversy

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