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Scientists: Time-Travelling Quantum Computer Will Have Been Solving Everything

Image Source: BBC Researchers from several countries have presented their theory on a quantum computer that uses time-travelling particles to perform intractable computations. ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorDecember 23, 2015

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These Test Tube Puppies Are Cute, But Should We Be Playing Dog?

Researchers at Cornell University have announced that the world’s first IVF puppies have been born to a surrogate mother. World, meet Ivy, Cannon, ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorDecember 13, 2015

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AT&T May Not Really Have a Fiber Network in the Works

Image Source: ATT AT&T has announced it will be bringing gigabit fiber connections to 38 more markets, but there may little more to ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorDecember 10, 2015

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Germany Just Activated the Largest Ever Fusion Reactor and We’re All Still Alive

Image Source: Business Insider On Thursday, December 10th, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Germany fired up a monstrous ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorDecember 10, 2015

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We Can Now Extract Prey’s DNA From Spider Webs, Solving Spider-Crime Forever

Image Source: Wikipedia In order to unobtrusively study the behavior and diet of spiders, researchers can now extract both predator and prey DNA ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2015

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The Tardigrade, World’s Cutest Microscopic Animal, is Filled with Alien DNA

Image Source: NASA The genome of the tardigrade, sometimes called a water bear, has been sequenced, and scientists say it contains more foreign ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 29, 2015

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This Artificial Intelligence Writes Clickbait Headlines – #9 Will Doom Us All!

Image Source: Wikipedia Programmer Lars Eidnes has programmed a recurrent neural network that can generate “formulaic and unoriginal” content, modelled after websites which ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 19, 2015

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DNA From Incan Human Sacrifice Sheds Light (and Blood) on History

Image Source: Nature The DNA of an Incan mummy believed to have been a victim of sacrifice has been recovered, supporting hypotheses on ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 16, 2015

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Pornhub Traffic Dropped by 10% the Day Fallout 4 Came Out

Image Source: Fallout 4 The world’s largest porn site, Pornhub.com, reports a 10% drop in traffic the day Fallout 4 was released. According ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 13, 2015

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Interstellar Weather Report: Windy, With a Chance of Death

Image Source: Phys.Org Scientists have, for the first time ever, mapped an exoplanet’s weather. The result: wind travelling faster than the speed of ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 13, 2015

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Surprising Everyone, Betamax Finally Loses the Format War to VHS

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 10, 2015

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Meet Dakotaraptor, the Giant “Utterly Lethal” Dinosaur From Hell Creek

Image Source: The Guardian Paleontologists have unearthed a massive relative of Velociraptor in South Dakota. It’s common knowledge nowadays that the velociraptors found ...

By Patrick Sklar Legacy AuthorNovember 6, 2015

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