After a violent storm ripped through the Irish town of Collooney, locals were shocked to discover the remains of a 1, 000-year-old skeleton hanging from the roots of a fallen tree. Read more…
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Medieval Skeleton Found Dangling From the Roots of a Fallen Tree
There are lots of coaster parks in the world, but few have dedicated themselves to pushing the limits of thrill rides like Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, has. And when it opens next summer, its new Valravn Birdseye coaster will officially break ten world records in one fell swoop. Read more…
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Cedar Point’s Giant New Coaster Will Shatter Ten World Records Next Year
Laptop video cards are a bit misleading in their names. You might think the GTX 980M is comparable to the desktop’s GTX 980, but the performance is actually quite different. Read more…
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How Laptop Graphics Cards Compare to Their Desktop Counterparts
It sounds like something straight out of a comic book, but after losing his sternum and part of his rib cage to cancer, a 54-year-old Spanish man received the world’s first 3D-printed chest prosthetic made from lightweight, but incredibly strong, titanium. Read more…
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The World’s First 3D-Printed Titanium Rib Cage Is a Medical Marvel
Italian neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero grabbed the world’s attention this past winter when he announced his plans to perform the first human head transplant. Many doubted that such an outrageous procedure would ever see the light of day. Now, Canavero has a date on the books. Read more…
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The First Human Head Transplant Will Take Place in 2017
We humans pride ourselves on our cultural diversity, but we’re not the only creatures that form unique societies. Turns out, two clans of sperm whales living near the Galápagos Islands speak different dialects — offering yet more evidence that animals have culture, too. Read more…
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Sperm Whale Clans Speak Different Dialects
NASA and Boeing have released a little teaser on their newest spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner, which will be built and tested at Kennedy Space Center and hopefully, eventually taxi people to space. Read more…
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This is how Boeing is building the first commercial Starliner spacecraft ever
400: That’s about how many years old Japan’s Hirosaki Castle is. It’s also how many tons it weighs. And yet it was successfully lifted two feet in the air and 230 feet down the road. Read more…
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Here’s How You Move a 400-Ton, 404-Year-Old Japanese Castle
The fight between law enforcement and tech companies about encryption and privacy is getting nastier than ever. Read more…
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Report: Apple Rejected Justice Department Demands for Encrypted iMessages
One day we might be able to make home refrigerators without any chemicals or industrial coolants. The main hope for this comes from a special property of metal and a quirk of entropy. Read more…
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Magnetic Refrigeration is a Real Thing. Here’s How it Works.