This Is What a 3D-Printed Replacement Ear Looks Like

This Is What a 3D-Printed Replacement Ear Looks Like

If you’re in the market for a replacement ear, how about one of these wonderful little 3D printed ones?

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What Would Happen If the Whole World Peed in the Ocean at Once?

What Would Happen If the Whole World Peed in the Ocean at Once?

I don’t really remember the first time I peed in the ocean.

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How Eating the Right Bacteria Could Give Your Body Superpowers

How Eating the Right Bacteria Could Give Your Body Superpowers

No man is an island. If anything, every man is a sentient, mobile farm for the countless quadrillions of bacteria that colonize us. And by introducing the right bacteria into that equation, you can give your body one heck of a boost.

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Future Windows Could Use a Biomimetic Vascular System to Save Energy

Future Windows Could Use a Biomimetic Vascular System to Save Energy

Windows, our source of life-giving sunlight indoors, are a menace to your electrical bill. In the summer, windows bleed cold and in the winter they ooze heat. To save energy, researchers want to give window panes a circulatory system that could pump in cool, liquid relief when they get too hot.

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You’ll Be Jealous of This Tiny Wasp Hitching a Ride on a Damselfly

You'll Be Jealous of This Tiny Wasp Hitching a Ride on a Damselfly

Being a human’s great, but sometimes it would be cool to experience the world from a different perspective. I’d love to be this little wasp, hitching a ride on the back of a damselfly.

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These Amazing Cardio Images Will Make Your Heart Race

These Amazing Cardio Images Will Make Your Heart Race

Every year the UK’s British Heart Foundation runs a competition to find the most interesting images produced by its researchers—and 2013 is a good, good year. Here are some of our favorites.

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Socially Networked Bacteria Isn’t as Scary as It Sounds

Socially Networked Bacteria Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

It’s safe to say that anytime bacteria develops human-like traits, we should be startled. We’ve long known that the tiny little critters have ways of smelling and tasting, and then earlier this year, we learned about their simplistic economics system. Now, scientists have learned that they use social networks, too.

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Newly discovered “Pandoravirus” could redefine life as we know it

Newly discovered “Pandoravirus” could redefine life as we know it

Scientists have discovered a pair of viruses that defy classification. Bigger and more genetically complex than any viral genus known to science, these so-called "pandoraviruses" could reignite a longstanding debate over the classification of life itself.

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Bone Marrow Transplants Remove All Sign of HIV in Two Men

Bone Marrow Transplants Remove All Sign of HIV in Two Men

It’s turning into quite a year for HIV treatment. First a baby girl was functionally cured of the HIV virus, then 14 adults were successfully treated with early-stage ARV drugs. Now, two men with longstanding HIV infections have been freed from HIV drugs thanks to bone marrow transplants. We’re really getting there.

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Scientists Sequence the Oldest Ever Genome–of a 700,000-Year-Old Horse

Scientists Sequence the Oldest Ever Genome--of a 700,000-Year-Old Horse

Scientists have managed to sequence the genome of a 700,000-year-old horse—in the process generating the oldest complete DNA sequence yet.

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