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The Sun-Powered Sailboat
FOUR-WING STABILITY Volitan may look more like an X-wing fighter than a boat, but the four-wing structure keeps it stable while maximizing maneuverability. Bob SaulsA Turkish design team dreams up a...
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The inside scoop on 10 crazy ideas that just may save our planet Tiny nukes to power towns, a hair club for plants and gasoline that can be pulled from thin air. On this episode of Cocktail Party...
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Rebuilding the Troops
For wounded soldiers, the military's Institute of Regenerative Medicine offers dramatic new ways to heal Skin guns. Organ printers. Pig dust. Biochemist Alan Russell believes tools like these could one...
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Defend Your Data
Personal Pocket SafeGreg NeumaierUpcoming ways to foil hackers and catch computer thieves Identity theft used to involve someone rifling through your garbage. But now more than half a million...
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Kinder Lab Tests
Ratasplosh (CC Licensed)Artificial skin and livers promise to spare the lives of lab rats Awww, how could anyone test experimental pharmaceuticals on that little face? A few new technologies --...
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Big Baby
Childhood's End: The bright spot at the lower right is a developing planetGreaves, Richards, Rice & MuxlowThe miracle of life-520 light-years away At this moment, in the constellation Taurus, a...
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Taking Out the Space Trash
Trash Collectors Robots could gain momentum to change orbit by swinging weighted tethers like a discus thrower does. This would move them to large pieces of old debris, to which they would attach...
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Ready, Aim, Splat!
SplatGreg NeumaierNew paintball gear lets you spatter your enemies faster and more accurately-without even leaving your cover Paintball has become the perfect way for gadget geeks to unleash their...
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Powering Cars With Toxic Waste
Pac-Man + Uranium = Happy Al Gore!AP Photo; DEA/G.Cigolini/Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty ImagesScientists invent a uranium-eating molecule that could help turn nuclear junk into fuel With global...
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Carbon Discredit
Weatherbird IIJay PaulRuss George knew how to fight global warming: Grow rainforests' worth of plantlife in the open ocean, plantlife that would suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. He had the...
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5 Things: Make Your Office More Eco-Friendly
Green OfficeKelly Cookson (CC Licensed)Green your office five ways thanks to these Web services Staying green may be a priority for most people, but offices rarely share that concern. If you find...
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The 411 on Your Next Cellphone
Cellphone, SuperchargedPaul WoottonWe brought the latest technologies out of the lab to create the phone of the future Next-generation super-phones won't just be slimmer versions of today's devices;...
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Are Records Really Better?
Choices, Choices Vinyl can't compete with CDs, but compressed music files are even worse. Erik Isakson/Getty ImagesThe FYI experts tackle the question that plagues every audiophile Sorry, vinyl...
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Nature's Finest
SWEET DREAMS Titanium oxide-the same ingredient in tooth whiteners-coats the inside of this sleeping bag to help kill odor. Greg NeumaierNew outdoor gear lets you hike faster and farther-and then get a...
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Could the Hubble Space Telescope Photograph Lunar Footprints?
One Very Small Step Hubble's mirror would need to be about half a mile wide to spot footprints on the moon. NASAThe FYI experts take on that age-old question of moon and man Snug in Earth's orbit,...
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The Sun-Powered Sailboat
FOUR-WING STABILITY Volitan may look more like an X-wing fighter than a boat, but the four-wing structure keeps it stable while maximizing maneuverability. Bob Sauls For most of history, sailboats...
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Tiny nukes to power towns, a hair club for plants and gasoline that can be pulled from thin air. On this episode of Cocktail Party Science, host Chuck Cage sits down with the editors and writers of "10...
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Rebuilding the Troops
Missing Limb Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images Skin guns. Organ printers. Pig dust. Biochemist Alan Russell believes tools like these could one day be standard-issue for the battlefield medic. The skin...
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Defend Your Data
Personal Pocket Safe Greg Neumaier Identity theft used to involve someone rifling through your garbage. But now more than half a million laptops—full of tax returns and love letters—are stolen every...
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Kinder Lab Tests
Rat asplosh (CC Licensed) Awww, how could anyone test experimental pharmaceuticals on that little face? A few new technologies -- substitute tissues, for instance -- aim to take the rat out of the...
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