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Celebrate the Fourth of July by Making Your Own Fireworks
Declare your independence with DIY sticks of burning metal, the science of free (or not so free) will, and a cephalopod surgeon -
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Red Objects Strangely Feel Cooler to the Touch than Blue Ones
A study reverses our usual expectations about sensation and colors, with a twist -
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Wastewater Injection Caused Oklahoma Earthquakes
A new study attributes the recent surge of quakes in central Oklahoma to the injection of wastewater at a handful of high-rate wells across the state -
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Elastic Cloaking Material Makes Objects “Unfeelable”
Move over, invisibility cloaks. There's a structure that can keep objects from being felt or jostled -
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Health
New Electronic Joint Ignites E-Device Debate
Health experts worry that a Dutch delivery device marketed as the “world’s first” electronic joint may not be safe, and could potentially increase the number of U.S. drug users -
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Should Prisoners Be Used in Medical Experiments?
History is rife with unethical experiments on inmates. But with proper safeguards prisoner studies may hold the key to the accurate representation of vulnerable groups and lead to health benefits -
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Capsized Costa Concordia Is Finally Set to Leave Its Watery Grave
Final preparations are under way to refloat and remove the Costa Concordia from the pristine waters off Giglio in what has been the largest and most expensive maritime salvage operation ever attempted. -
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The Outbreak of World War I
One hundred years ago Scientific American documented the First World War as it engulfed soldiers, civilians and industries -
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This Week’s Coolest Science Stories
First-week-of-summer highlights include tech-savvy trees, gloppy oatmeal and vast swarms of now-extinct birds
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3 Billion to Zero: What Happened to the Passenger Pigeon?
Human actions may have caused the species’s populations to grow huge as well as led to its demise -
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Higgs Boson Looks “Standard,” but Upgraded LHC May Tell a Different Tale
A new run at the Large Hadron Collider in 2015 could show whether the Higgs boson matches the Standard Model of particle physics or opens the door to new theories -
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Space
Mineralogy of Newfound Planets Could Point to Habitability
Astrobiologists hope that the detection of certain minerals on exoplanets by ever-more-sensitive space telescopes could indicate biochemical processes associated with life -
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Why Tau Trumps Pi
A growing movement argues that killing pi would make mathematics simpler, easier and even more beautiful -
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If Poachers and Illegal Loggers Strike, This Forest Phones It In
Environmentalists are bugging rainforests with discarded smartphones to catch poachers and illegal loggers -
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Technology
How You Can Hide Your Smartphone Data from Thieves—and the Cops
A new software technique thwarts forensic software by making indiscernible changes in a handset’s operating system -
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Starbucks to Offer Wireless Caffeine for Smartphones
The coffee chain is putting wireless mobile device charging on the menu, a harbinger of cable-free communications and computing -
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Wildlife at Belize Resort Pushed by Travolta Could Have Trouble Stayin’ Alive
The A-list actor is promoting a proposed billionaire’s playground in Puerto Azul, complete with a private airport and racetrack, that could endanger the marine habitat -
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It’s Frack, Baby, Frack, as Conventional Gas Drilling Declines [Infographic]
Hydraulic fracturing has offset dwindling traditional sources, but that trend may not last long -
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With Prizes Like This, Who Needs a Nobel?
Five mathematicians, working in a field spurned by the Nobel academies as a matter of course, will receive $3-million awards of their own -
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Cold Comfort: The Ethnography of Refrigerators [Slide Show]
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