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Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key
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Saving the Seas: Protect Ecosystems by Outlawing Stowaway Creatures (or Just...
New PredatorsOpenCage via WikimediaThe lionfish, native to the South Pacific, arrived in the Atlantic in the 1980s. Millions now live there.Fifty years ago, if you pulled a mooring rope from the waters...
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Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
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Garden Aids That Take the Irk out of Yard Work
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View ArticleThe Goods: May 2011's Hottest Gadgets
Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in gear. These gadgets are the first, the best and the latest.Click here to see our favorite gadgets of the month.
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How a Blind Man Drove the Daytona Speedway, With the Help of Lasers
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View ArticleWe Asked Twelve Ocean Experts How to Save the Seas
Saving the oceans seems like an impossibly daunting task, one most people would have no idea how to even begin. So we asked 12 of the world's foremost ocean experts--scientists, policymakers, and a...
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Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel
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Dinosaur Digs, Particle Accelerators and Crash Tests: Eight Epic Summer...
Mind TripsStudio LiddellAmusement parks are so bland. This summer, take a brainier vacation— visit a particle accelerator, sail the Pacific aboard a marine research vessel, or watch simulations of epic...
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FYI: What's The Point Of Sex?
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Saving the Seas: Fixing the Water Cycle Is the Key
Science Atmospheric warming is causing saltier oceans and nastier storms As the atmosphere warms, the water cycle—the process by which seawater evaporates, rains down, and then evaporates again—will...
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Saving the Seas: Protect Ecosystems by Outlawing Stowaway Creatures (or Just...
Science Invasive species like the lionfish must be controlled Fifty years ago, if you pulled a mooring rope from the waters off Cape Cod, it would have emerged covered with mussels, barnacles and...
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Saving the Seas: Reducing Fertilizer Runoff to Resurrect Ocean Dead Zones
Science Fertilizer and sewage runoff cause the worst marine pollution, but we can reverse their effects Marine pollution takes many forms, from the millions of gallons of oil that run off our highways...
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Garden Aids That Take the Irk out of Yard Work
DIY Getting your lawn in shape after the spring thaw can mean many uncomfortable hours of lifting, bending, stretching and sweating. These tools cut down on all that… Getting your lawn in shape after...
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The Goods: May 2011's Hottest Gadgets
Gadgets A pogo stick with bigger bounce, paint rollers that make corners easy, an awesome laser board game and more Every month we search far and wide to bring you a dozen of the best new ideas in...
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How a Blind Man Drove the Daytona Speedway, With the Help of Lasers
Gadgets Mark Anthony Riccobono, who is blind, tells PopSci about his mile-and-a-half drive Mark Anthony Riccobono, who is blind, drove a modified Ford Escape hybrid on the Daytona International...
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We Asked Twelve Ocean Experts How to Save the Seas
Science With so many problems with our oceans--and solutions to them--it can be tricky to know where to start. So we asked the experts Saving the oceans seems like an impossibly daunting task, one...
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Bodies In Motion: Exploring the Human Limits of Future Travel
Science The limits of travel are defined not by what vehicles can do, but by what vehicles can do to us. So how much can we take? On the morning of October 25, 1999, captain Michael Kling and his...
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Dinosaur Digs, Particle Accelerators and Crash Tests: Eight Epic Summer...
Science Not your rainy afternoon trip to the science museum Amusement parks are so bland. This summer, take a brainier vacation— visit a particle accelerator, sail the Pacific aboard a marine research...
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FYI: What's The Point Of Sex?
Science Lots of animals reproduce asexually. Why not humans? This may seem obvious. But in evolutionary terms, the benefits of sexual reproduction are not immediately clear. Male rhinoceros beetles...
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