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Electronic Circuits That Melt Into Your Body
2:48AM Jesus Diaz | It makes me nervous too. I’m not so keen on the idea of circuits enveloped in a silk substrate, which melts into your body leaving just nanometres-thick layers of electronics. But it’s for the best, trust me on this one. More »
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5:33AM Adam Frucci | Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 42,000km and pieced together over 3000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled. More »
Feel Insignificant With A 648MP Image Of Our Galaxy
5:33AM Adam Frucci | Physicist Axel Mellinger travelled 42,000km and pieced together over 3000 individual images to create this, one of the most stunning panoramas of our galaxy every assembled. More »
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Vrrrrooom On The Moon
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | Life has a collection of 21 of their greatest space photos. I like this one, because I can imagine the astronaut on the moon rover going vrroooommm vrrrooommm inside his helmet. More »
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Scientifically “Haunted” Room Shows Ghosts Are Only In Your Head
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | Researchers wanted to prove that those who believe in paranormal experience are completely nuts, so they scientifically haunted a room using ultrasound waves and stuck people in there. Results? A lot of dizzy, tingly, aroused and gullible individuals. More »
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New Apollo 17 Landing Photo Clearly Shows Lander, Flag
3:00PM Rosa Golijan | It’s blurrier than old MySpace snapshots, but it’s there as expected. The Apollo Lunar Modules and the US flag left behind at the Apollo 17 landing site has been caught in a close-up image by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. More »
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Sharkskin Inspired Material Repels Bacteria
1:00PM Rosa Golijan | Sharks are scary. So scary that the texture of their skin alone prevents parasitic bacteria from sticking. Good, because by modelling a plastic sheet-like surface after that scary skin, we can actually prevent drug-resistant superbacteria like MRSA from building up. More »
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Confirmed: CERN Is Just A Huge Half-Life Level
9:00AM John Herrman | Plenty of people have given CERN and Half-Life’s Black Mesa research facility the This Thing Looks Like That Thing treatment, but this tour of the facility’s deepest bowels is just too much. Steam geysers? Endless corridors? Rusty valves? Slime growths? More »
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8:00AM Astronaut Leroy Chiao | Our friend and astronaut blogger Leroy Chiao sat on the human spaceflight advisory committee which released its report last week. Since news stories about it were hazy at best, we asked him to explain what it really said… More »
Astronaut Explains How We’ll Fall In Love With Space Again
8:00AM Astronaut Leroy Chiao | Our friend and astronaut blogger Leroy Chiao sat on the human spaceflight advisory committee which released its report last week. Since news stories about it were hazy at best, we asked him to explain what it really said… More »
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The Ares I-X Rocket In Pictures, From Birth To Launch
6:08AM Adam Frucci | The always-awesome Big Picture blog takes on the Ares I-X rocket today, with a stunning set of shots from testing to launch. Definitely worth checking out. [Big Picture]
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