Mar 05
It may look like it belongs on the wall of a 60s home, but this image is in fact a microscopic view of a tiny electronic device.
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Mar 05
City Cycling: Health Versus Hazard
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Are the fitness benefits of riding your bike worth the risk of an accident? Lesley Evans Ogden takes a tour of seven cities on two wheels to find out.
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Mar 05
If you are the sort that likes to worry about an asteroid hitting the Earth, you have little to fear today. NASA says that the flyby of asteroid 2014 DX110 … Continue reading
Mar 04
Are hover boards real? That was what Back to the Future II’s director claimed back in 1989. Safe to say it wasn’t true, but it did serve as a promotional tool for the movie. In fact fast forward to today, many of us are still waiting on hoverboards to make their way into the market, and while we can look forward to self-lacing shoes in 2015, can the same be said for hoverboards?
Well it seems that a group of actors and investors wants you to believe that hover boards are real, or something to that extent, because a video was recently released on YouTube which appears to be an attempt to make people believe that hoverboards are the real deal. (more…)
Are Hoverboards Real? This Video Wants Us To Think So! original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 04
When you’re working with tiny nanoparticles, you need extremely delicate tools. Like, say, tweezers that can manipulate particles 1,000 times thinner than a human hair without physically touching them. That’s exactly what researchers at the Institute of Photonic Sciences have come up with: optical nanotweezers that use light to move tiny particles in three dimensions. It’s not sci-fi anymore.
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Mar 04
A monster virus comes back from ancient times to wreak havoc on mankind. That may sound like a blurb from a science fiction novel, but as scientists have known for some time, it’s not at all impossible. And thanks to the recent revival of a 30,000-year-old giant virus in Siberia, there’s increasing concern that it might describe our future.
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Mar 04
Goodyear SUV Concept Tire
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Do you ever wonder just how important the four tires on your car or vehicle is? The amount of contact that it comes with on the asphalt is phenomenally small in comparison to the rest of the vehicle, and yet it would be all four tires that ensure you remain stuck on the road even when you are barreling down the freeway with your foot on the accelerator. Goodyear, a name that has been connected to tires for the longest time, unveiled its latest concept tire which was specially designed for SUVs at the 2014 Geneva Auto Show. The whole point of this particular tire was to improve SUV efficiency without having to sacrifice any kind of capability or performance. The result? A conceptual tire that sports a pair of distinct rings.
Goodyear SUV Concept Tire original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mar 04
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is one of those places that makes magic
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Mar 04
Rise of the Intestinal Selfie
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Londoners! The luckiest amongst you will be treated to a bizarre new public event next week, hosted by culinary wunderkinder Bompas & Parr. On Friday, March 14th, before a live, paying audience, "food writer, pop-up chef and Sunday Times columnist Gizzi Erskine" will "swallow a medical grade pill-cam which will broadcast its footage live to video screens." Everyone there in attendance will thus watch, over the course of roughly two hours, as Erskine’s digestive system is filmed from within, live on screens for all to see.
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Mar 04
How the Elements Got Their Names
Posted in: Today's ChiliFrom Hydrogen to Ununoctium, all of the elements have names, some more crazy than other. But where did they come from?
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