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How 'Metal Gear Solid' Helped Turn An Amputee Into A Maker

How 'Metal Gear Solid' Helped Turn An Amputee Into A Maker

James Young's bionic arm will be Bluetooth-enabled, with a screen to control his electronics. It has a laser …

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How high-powered microscopes can help make fat taste even better

How high-powered microscopes can help make fat taste even better

Tell me to picture something "awe-inspringly beautiful," and my mind will probably wander to an infinite pile…

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This Enormous Telescope Will Study Neutrinos From The Depths Of The Ocean Floor

This Enormous Telescope Will Study Neutrinos From The Depths Of The Ocean Floor

If trillions and trillions of tiny particles rained down from the depths of space and passed through your bod…

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Scientists recreate Mercury's surface and find it looks more like a mantle

Scientists recreate Mercury's surface and find it looks more like a mantle

If you walked into a home and the kitchen was strewn with dusty old copies of National Geographic, you'd prob…

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Why scientists are freezing the sperm of sex-swapped flounder

Why scientists are freezing the sperm of sex-swapped flounder

You probably didn't expect to learn about flounder sex changes today, but here we are. There aren't any south…

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Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected Again

Gravitational Waves From Colliding Black Holes Detected Again

Two black holes whirled violently towards each other, under the pull of the immense gravity between them, com…

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Natural gas versus natural beauty

Natural gas versus natural beauty

A tiny salamander in the Appalachian Mountains just won a major victory over a proposed natural gas pipeline,…

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