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The Man with 10,000 Bird Songs in His Head
Photograph by Brent Humphreys Bret Whitney in McKinney Falls State Park just outside Austin, Texas Photograph by Brent HumphreysCan you tell birdsongs apart? Listen in. Some ornithologists contend that...
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No Assembly Required
Having trouble reconciling your love of IKEA furniture with your nostalgia for futuristic, self-reassembling T-1000-like robots? Well, don't fret. Your problem has been solved by a team of engineers...
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Care for a Nice, Chocolatey Beer?
Scientists have pushed back the start date for humanity's addiction to chocolate. Using new techniques, Cornell University anthropologists discovered caffeine and theobomine, which comes from cacao,...
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Cornell Fabrication Lab Makes Edible Objects With 3-D Printer
Mmmm, Space ShuttleCornell University/French Culinary InstituteHere at PopSci we often write about emerging technologies like 3-D printing, perhaps almost as often as we write about space launches and...
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Undergraduate Designer Makes Nanostructured Clothes That Block Poisonous Gases
Gas-Trapping Gear Cornell student Allie Thielens, left, models the gas-absorbing hood and mask designed by fellow student Jennifer Keane, right. Mark Vorreuter, Cornell UniversityAnd look stylish at...
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Cornell's Thumbnail-Sized Satellites Are Headed to Space, Could Soon be Bound...
Cornell's Chip SatsCornell UniversityCornell researchers are sending a tiny bundle to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Endeavour's final mission, and if all goes well their...
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Video: Ranger Robot Sets New Distance Record, Walking 40 Miles on a Single...
Ranger Extends Its RangeCornell's Ranger Robot, world record holder for the longest walk by a robot on a single charge, has smashed its own personal best by logging 40.5 miles without stopping,...
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How 3-D Printing Will Turn Homes Into Mini Factories
A Fab In Every CageMichael ChoConsumer-grade multi-material printers could hit the market in the next decade. Here's why that matters. In 1984, inventor Charles Hull built the first rapid-prototyping...
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Cornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Bio-Engin-Ear Lawrence Bonassar displays his 3-D printed ear. Lindsay France/Cornell University PhotographyAfter three months growing in the lab, it looks and acts more like a natural ear than any...
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People Think Candy Bars With Green Nutrition Labels Are Healthier
Green CaloriesDan NosowitzI see what you're trying to do there, Snickers bar. No matter how smart we think we are, humanity continues to be fooled by simple marketing tricks. Various experiments have...
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The Man with 10,000 Bird Songs in His Head
Photograph by Brent Humphreys Bret Whitney in McKinney Falls State Park just outside Austin, Texas Photograph by Brent Humphreys Some ornithologists contend that variations in the songs of birds...
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Care for a Nice, Chocolatey Beer?
Scientists have pushed back the start date for humanity's addiction to chocolate. Using new techniques, Cornell University anthropologists discovered caffeine and theobomine, which comes from cacao,...
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Cornell Fabrication Lab Makes Edible Objects With 3-D Printer
Mmmm, Space Shuttle Cornell University/French Culinary Institute Here at PopSci we often write about emerging technologies like 3-D printing, perhaps almost as often as we write about space launches...
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Undergraduate Designer Makes Nanostructured Clothes That Block Poisonous Gases
Gas-Trapping Gear Cornell student Allie Thielens, left, models the gas-absorbing hood and mask designed by fellow student Jennifer Keane, right. Mark Vorreuter, Cornell University A new type of cloth...
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Cornell's Thumbnail-Sized Satellites Are Headed to Space, Could Soon be Bound...
Cornell's Chip Sats Cornell University Cornell researchers are sending a tiny bundle to the International Space Station aboard the space shuttle Endeavour's final mission, and if all goes well their...
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Video: Ranger Robot Sets New Distance Record, Walking 40 Miles on a Single...
Ranger Extends Its Range Cornell's Ranger Robot, world record holder for the longest walk by a robot on a single charge, has smashed its own personal best by logging 40.5 miles without stopping,...
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How 3-D Printing Will Turn Homes Into Mini Factories
A Fab In Every Cage Michael Cho In 1984, inventor Charles Hull built the first rapid-prototyping machine, a massive device that turned digital blueprints into plastic models constructed layer by...
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Cornell Researchers Grow A Realistic Bio-Engineered Human Ear
Bio-Engin-Ear Lawrence Bonassar displays his 3-D printed ear. Lindsay France/Cornell University Photography Researchers at Cornell University have managed to fabricate a bioengineered human ear that...
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People Think Candy Bars With Green Nutrition Labels Are Healthier
Green Calories Dan Nosowitz No matter how smart we think we are, humanity continues to be fooled by simple marketing tricks. Various experiments have found wearing the color red is more likely to get...
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Materials From Carl Sagan's College Courses Now Available Online
Sagan Explains Photo by JPL, hosted on Wikimedia Commons I'm looking at the very first problem astronomer and science popularizer Carl Sagan assigned to one of his Harvard University classes in 1965....
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