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Scientists Planning Real-Life Armageddon Mission

11:10PM August 17, 2011 | Casey Chan

In the classic masterpiece, Armageddon, by auteur Michael Bay, Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck were epically sent into space to blow up an asteroid headed straight for Earth. Now in real life, scientists want to try and do the same thing. More »

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Great Timing: Scientists Fine Tune Two-Part Method For Password Protection

5:00AM April 4, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Scientists at Max-Planck-Institute for Physics of Complex Systems recently published a paper describing a two-part method to improve password security. More »

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Carbon Nanotube Aerogel Takes Crown As World’s Lightest Material

9:00AM January 17, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Carbon nanotubes do it all, don’t they? To date they’ve strengthened other materials, solved crimes in the Mystery Mobile and can claim they’ve taken part in creating the world’s lightest material. Well, at least two of those are true anyway. More »

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Immaculate Creation: Birth Of The First Synthetic Cell

7:20AM May 21, 2010 | New Scientist

For the first time, scientists have created life from scratch – well, sort of. What exactly is the science behind the first synthetic cell, and what is its broader significance? More »

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Meet The Team Of All Star Scientists Obama Assembled To Fix The Oil Spill

10:00AM May 16, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

After BP’s many failures, Obama and his Energy Secretary Steven Chu have assembled a team of five “extraordinarily intelligent” scientists, whose specialties range from bomb design to Mars mining, to clean up the Gulf spill. Here’s the all star team: More »

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Another Potential Casualty In The Google-China Wars

3:00AM February 26, 2010 | Brian Barrett

With all the intrigue around China hacking Google and Google hacking back, it’s easy to overlook the real-world consequences of what further escalation might lead to. Specifically: Chinese researchers and scientists could see the plug pulled on their work process. More »

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NASA Scientists To Approach Girl By 2018

1:40PM February 12, 2010 | Brian Barrett

An Onion News Network piece that makes fun of NASA and awkward flirtation all at once? Be still my laughing heart. Seriously, though: it’s good to have an eight-year plan. More »

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Don’t Bother Changing Your Tattoos: Scientists Can See Through It

9:15PM December 14, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

And you thought turning your “terrorism 4 eva” tattoo into “terrariums 4 eva” would stop you getting caught. Scientists are working on a new infrared camera that can detect adapted tattoos, which will help recognise crafty criminals. More »

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In An Emergency, Place A Brassiere Over Your Nose And Mouth

10:00PM October 2, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Yes, that’s Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman there with half a brassiere clamped tightly over his nose and mouth. That said, this is not some scandalous spy shot that will bequeath Bill O’Reilly’s next wet dream. It’s actually this: More »

Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time

11:41PM April 3, 2009 | Mark Wilson

A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge.

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