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This is What Radiation from a Chunk of Uranium Looks Like

Radiation tends to strike fear in the hearts of the general populace, particularly the ionizing variety produced by X-rays and radioactive elements. But most have no idea what actual radiation looks like. Now a French organization c alled CloudyLabs has found a way to let us see the process in action using a simple cloud chamber. Read more…

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This is What Radiation from a Chunk of Uranium Looks Like

This Startup Wants To Plant One Billion Trees a Year Using Drones

Deforestation downs 10 billion trees around the globe annually. Replanting trees by hand is slow, expensive, and barely puts a dent in reversing the damage. But one startup wants to use drones that can reforest our increasingly tree-strapped Earth, on a big enough scale to replace slow and expensive hired humans. Read more…

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Japanese Six-Year-Olds Can Ride Trains Alone Thanks to the Country’s Amazing Infrastructure

Over at The Atlantic ’s CityLab , there’s a great post about how Japanese kids can run errands around town and take public transportation free of worry or supervision. It’s thanks to the country’s incredible infrastructure and culture of safety. Read more…

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Japanese Six-Year-Olds Can Ride Trains Alone Thanks to the Country’s Amazing Infrastructure

15 Million T-Mobile Customers Hacked in Vendor Data Breach 

T-Mobile customers should be on alert: Hackers stole the personal information of around 15 million Uncarrier users from its credit reporting agency , Experian. The stolen data including social security numbers, addresses, and phone numbers. Read more…

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Mapping the 88 Million Ways That Humans Are Genetically Different

An international team of scientists has scanned the genomes of 2, 504 people from around the world to create the world’s largest catalog of human genetic variation (HGV). The extensive database will help them understand why some people are susceptible to certain diseases. Read more…

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110-Year-Old Electric Car Sells for $95,000

Teslas might be ‘practical’ and ‘fast’ and other useful things, but they’re also a little nouveau riche. If you want real electric-car class, you’ve got to hark back to 1905, and this very expensive vintage golf cart. Read more…

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110-Year-Old Electric Car Sells for $95,000

This $75 Kit Makes It Easy to Run Windows 10 on a Raspberry Pi

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that a free version of Windows 10 would be available for Raspberry Pi devices. Now it’s here , and this $75 kit aims to make the process of using it as straightforward as possible. Read more…

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All the New Stuff You Can Ask Siri in iOS 9

One of Apple’s big talking points when they introduced iOS 9 was how Siri was going to be better and more “proactive.” We didn’t really have any clue what that meant initially, but now that iOS has been around for a week, we’ve got a much better idea of what you can ask it to do. Let’s take a look. Read more…

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Dozens of Cool Artifacts Recovered From the Antikythera Shipwreck

More than 50 items have been recovered at the site of the ancient Greek shipwreck that yielded the famous Antikythera mechanism. Working at a depth of 180 feet (55 meters), archaeologists managed to pull up the remains of a bone flute, glassware, luxury ceramics, and a bronze armrest. Read more…

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