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A Buoy-Based Security System For Our Ports
Technology About 40 percent of U.S. trade—some $1.4 trillion a year—passes through the country's 360 ports and waterways. (The rest arrives via truck, rail or plane.) And despite… About 40 percent of...
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PopSci's High School Inventors Of 2012
Science Ten amazing projects built by teens. Every year thousands of high school students take part in national and regional science fairs. PopSci scours those events to find 10 students with truly...
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The Bed That Uses Robotic Arms to Make Itself
Gadgets After a full day of operating mill machinery in Spain's Basque country, Ascensio Zubeldia used to fall into bed drained. Each morning he mulled over the perfect bed—one that…
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Blueprint: A Kite That Captures Energy
Science Ben Franklin would be proud. "You know how a kite can pull its string from your hands? Airborne wind-energy systems like ours work on the same principle—the pull of the kite turns a generator...
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A New Organization Pairs Scientists With Adventurers To Bring Data Back From...
Science “Hey, while you’re there, could you grab us some data?” More and more science takes place on computers, but hard data still comes from the material world. To learn about, say, harmful algae...
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Hack Yourself An Emergency DIY Car Charger
Gadgets On the lam without your car charger? Splice some wires and be on your way. MATERIALS USB cable for your device Any 5-volt car cigarette lighter adapter Knife Tape STEP 1 Cut the USB end off...
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The 15-Year-Old Who Builds Drones
DIY Pittsburgh native Mihir Garimella won the Google Science Fair for his fly-inspired robot In search-and-rescue scenarios, machines can act as first responders to avoid putting human rescuers at...
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The 15-Year-Old Inventor Who Launched A Business
DIY When Brooke Martin's dog suffered separation anxiety, she built pet communicator iC Pooch When Brooke Martin realized her pet dog had separation anxiety, she decided to help. "We have all of these...
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Send Us Your Most Ambitious Spaceship Designs
Space A competition to send us to the stars Send us your spaceships…
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This building hanging from an asteroid is absurd—but let’s take it seriously...
Technology Welcome to the Analemma tower and its half hour elevator rides Have you ever wanted to wake up and see the curvature of the Earth? Or wanted to live exclusively indoors? Well good news,...
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