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Hawaii's False Missile Alert Shows Americans Have No Idea What to Do in Nuclear Attack
February 21, 2019 | ArticleAn erroneous alert about a nuclear attack was sent to Hawaii residents. The ensuing confusion and hysteria revealed that Americans are not prepared.
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Japan Just Shot a Fake Asteroid with a Space Bullet … for Science
February 20, 2019 | ArticleSay you need to prepare to shoot bullets into an asteroid and suck up the debris kicked up from the blast, then tuck it away for safekeeping.
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AI Sucks at Making Adorable Cat Photos, Clearly Misses the Entire Point of the Internet
February 14, 2019 | ArticleWhen neural networks attempted to create images of cats, the results were cat-astrophic.
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Gorgeous Fractal Patterns, Normally Found Only in Nature, Re-Created Using Laser Light
February 12, 2019 | ArticleA human-made thing created a very beautiful, natural pattern.
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China Tests World's 1st Robot Ship for Launching Small Rockets
February 03, 2019 | ArticleChina has built the world's first robotic, partially submersible boat for launching sounding rockets — a technology that will help meteorologists better understand the atmosphere over Earth's oceans.
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What Is Genetic Modification?
February 01, 2019 | ReferenceGenetic modification purposefully alters the genetic makeup of organisms through controlled breeding or via genetic engineering technologies such as CRISPR.
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This Is the Purest Beam of Light in the World
January 31, 2019 | ArticleThe device, built to be portable enough for use in space, produces a beam of laser light that changes less over time than any other laser humanity has created.
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What Is the Large Hadron Collider?
January 29, 2019 | ReferenceThe world's greatest atom smasher.
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New MIT Laser Device Whispers Secret Sounds Into Your Ear
January 29, 2019 | ArticleImagine sitting down to dinner with a group of friends, when a laser tickles the water molecules inside your ear. "Hello!" you hear.
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Physicists Made a Flying Army of Laser Schrödinger's Cats
January 29, 2019 | ArticleA laser pulse glanced off a rubidium atom and entered the quantum world — taking on the weird physics of Schrödinger's cat.
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