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Scientists design crash-proof computer based on nature’s chaos

Researchers built a computer that never crashes. The crash-proof computer mimics nature's chaos, and is currently in use at the University College London.

Now science has given rats the ability to ‘touch’ light. Seriously.

Scientists have developed an implant to convince rats they can "touch" infrared light, thereby paving ways for technology that may allow the blind to "see."
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Computer program reconstructs dead languages

Scientists from Canada and California have designed a computer program that will help linguists reconstruct and unearth dead languages.

Scientists have built a robot that makes rats depressed. Yay, science?

A team at Waseda University has designed a robot rat to make the lives of real-life rats miserable, just to see how depressed they get as a result.
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What if everything we thought we knew about DNA was wrong?

The double helix model of DNA may not be at the center of everything after all, with British scientists discovering a natural four-standed helix.
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A $300k 3D-printed burger exists, because why not?

Thanks science! Math phobia can literally cause brain pain

Do you find yourself extremely dreading math problems that you physically feel ill at the thought? You're not being a baby about it, it's actually science.
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Breathing optional: Scientists develop injectable oxygen

Scientists have developed microparticles that can provide up to a half hour of oxygen to patients unable to breathe on their own.

FDA approves edible electronic pills that sense when you take your medication

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Wild webcam: Alaskan park streams brown bears catching salmon live

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Free space simulator lets you tour the universe from home

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Batteries not included: How small-scale energy harvesting will power the future

Organ simulator chips hope to revolutionize drug development, reduce animal testing

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Swarm of tiny spacecraft could deflect incoming asteroids, scientists claim

Dr. Evil’s dream come true: Laser shark is officially reality

3D solar panels can produce 20 times more energy than flat panels

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World’s most powerful laser could ‘tear apart the vacuum of space’

Video: Scientists lock a disk in air with quantum levitation

Salt helps man design a hard drive that holds six times more data

Researchers control tablet with ‘kick gestures’ and a Kinect

Our human ancestors knew how to cook 1.9 million years ago

Earth is home to 8.7 million species of plants and animals, scientists say

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Geologists may have found oldest known fossils

Scientists warn that aliens may come to destroy us

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Black scientists far less likely to receive funding than white scientists, study finds

Don’t watch TV! It’s killing you 22 minutes at a time

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Mystery of orange goo gripping Alaska town has been partially solved

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Facebook may cause serious mental health problems in kids, studies show

Kids love multitasking on multiple screens, study finds

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This is the saddest movie of all-time, according to science

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Astronomers near capturing star’s moment of death

Did you know: the Earth produces 44 trillion watts of heat

Scientists think they’ve figured out the “uncanny valley” – why humanoid robots creep us out

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How Google is wreaking havoc on our memory skills