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A magician turned Stanford mathematician is on a quest to solve one of the...
Persi Diaconis shuffled and cut the deck of cards I’d brought for him, while I promised not to reveal his secrets.“I’m not going to give you the chance,” he retorted.In an empty conference room at the...
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Don't throw away your old 'Guitar Hero' instruments just yet
When a new "Guitar Hero" game was announced earlier this week, we told you to throw out your old instruments. After all, none of them will work with "Guitar Hero Live," the game arriving this fall on a...
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A new trend has tons of women cleaning out their closets until they're left...
In 2010, Courtney Carver realized she simply had too many clothes.“I remember thinking, ‘we have to do something about this closet,’” she told Business Insider. “I was decluttering my entire life and...
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These creepy carnivorous snails with harpoon-shaped teeth hunt fish
There are some badass carnivorous cone snails who hunt fish by tethering them in place with a harpoon-shaped tooth and then injecting a venom that messes with their nervous system.Now, researchers...
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Awesome photos from the set of the next 'Star Wars' movie
Star Wars Celebration kicked off Thursday at the Anaheim Convention Center with a huge panel for the next film."Star Wars: The Force Awakens" director J.J. Abrams and Lucasfilm president Kathleen...
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An explanation for everything you see in the latest 'Star Wars' trailer
The second teaser trailer for the new "Star Wars" movie, "The Force Awakens," is out.It's short, but packed with a lot of stuff. Here's an explanation for everything you see in the new trailer.We start...
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Archaeologists just discovered tools 700,000 years older than we've ever found
SAN FRANCISCO–Archaeologists working in the Kenyan Rift Valley have discovered the oldest known stone tools in the world. Dated to around 3.3 million years ago, the implements are some 700,000 years...
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How 'Ex Machina' made a robot that looks unlike any you've seen before
Artificial Intelligence has fascinated filmmakers as far back as the 1920s with Fritz Lang's dazzling "Metropolis.” Recently, AI has found its way more frequently into movies.Look at "Her,""Big Hero...
View ArticleHere's a preview of the drone vs. ape wars that could lie in our future
This footage was captured on Friday by the Burgers' Zoo in Arnhem, Netherlands.According to the Burgers' Zoo YouTube page, "once the chimpanzees discovered the spying plane the animals immediately...
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This promising new breakthrough could mean there's still hope for an HIV vaccine
Together with nutrition, sanitation and antibiotics, vaccination is one of the four great pillars of public health that has led to the longer lifespans we commonly expect today. Yet some infections...
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Scientists have figured out how dogs make us fall in love with them
When people call their dogs their "fur babies," they may be onto something, at least on a chemical level.Dogs that make so-called puppy eyes at their owners get a spike in the "love hormone" oxytocin—...
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Scientists have finally figured out why Earth makes this constant but barely...
Even planets can get a bad case of tinnitus, according to a new study that explains Earth's mysterious, never-ending hum.Scientists have long known that earthquakes can make the Earth sing like a bell...
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These creepy bone-eating worms have been chowing down on corpses for 100...
When a whale dies in the ocean, its carcass sinks slowly to the seafloor, becoming a smorgasbord for many different kinds of marine creatures.One of the weirdest of these opportunistic scavengers is a...
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Fascinating new 'space elevator' concept could make this sci-fi dream a reality
Fans of sci-fi author Arthur C. Clarke know and love his 1979 classic novel, The Fountains of Paradise. The plot centers on efforts of a visionary structural engineer in the 22nd century, Dr. Vannevar...
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Science says that being too good-looking can screw up your career, especially...
Beautiful people get lots of benefits in life, mainly due to something psychologists call the "halo effect," which states that you're biased to think that the people you're attracted to are kinder,...
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George Lucas is building a housing project in a wealthy California community
“Star Wars” creator George Lucas faced bitter opposition from neighbors when he tried to expand his Skywalker Ranch studio three years ago. Now it seems he is striking back.Lucas plans to build an...
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Here's everything we know about the 'Star Wars' game that's coming out this fall
2015 is the year of "Star Wars."On Thursday, director J.J. Abrams, much of the next "Star Wars" film's cast, and one very cute droid unveiled the second trailer for this December's movie.Friday, we got...
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Here’s why we should be really excited about quantum computers
Even if the word "quantum" doesn't immediately scare you away, a quantum computer still sounds like a wacky concept grounded in science fiction, not reality.But recent breakthroughs in the field...
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This video of Matthew McConaughey reacting to the 'Star Wars' trailer is...
In case you’re living under a rock, the new “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” teaser trailer was released on Thursday.In addition to adding $2 billion to Disney’s value, the trailer was chock-full of new...
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Celebrity trainer Tony Horton says this is the biggest mistake people make...
Tony Horton is one of the most visible people — if not the most visible person — in all of American fitness.The credit for that goes to his work creating P90X, the most successful home fitness program...
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