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The Braveheart effect: How companies profit off our desire for freedom
“They may take our lives, but they will never take our freedom!” This often parodied quote from Mel Gibson’s William…
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3D printing coral reefs can create new habitats — but it doesn’t tackle human destruction
Coral reefs are vanishing from the world’s oceans. At least three quarters of these tropical marine habitats are severely threatened…
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This study wants to help you spot ‘fake news’
“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening,” Donald Trump, the president of…
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China’s ‘barrage videos’ are chaotic af — and say a lot about loneliness
Ideas are mysterious things. Sometimes the worst ones smell like solid gold, sometimes the profit-driving powerhouses masquerade as giant turds. Telling the difference,…
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Why social media payments and cryptocurrencies could be perfect partners
In late August, messaging giant LINE launched its own proprietary blockchain, the LINK chain, and its own cryptocurrency, the LINK…
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How the new mosquito emoji can create buzz to battle mosquito-borne disease
Mosquitoes have arrived on our emoji keyboards as a part of the iOS 12.1 update. The Unicode Consortium approved the…
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Penis bone puzzle solved by invasive 3D scanning
For ferrets, sex is a prolonged affair. In total, the act of mating might last up to three hours. Fortunately…
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These Nobel Prize-winning optical tweezers use light to move stuff
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three pioneers of the laser technology that has made…
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ASMR videos could be a new digital therapy for mental health
You may know “ASMR” as the niche genre of YouTube video which people watch on tablets and laptops to help…
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Honda steers $2 billion into GM’s Cruise self-driving cars
Honda will invest $2 billion and take a 5.7 percent stake in General Motors’ Cruise self-driving vehicle unit, to jointly…
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