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Orlando police study finds that body cameras work—and that cops like wearing them

Two out of three officers in the study wanted to keep wearing the cameras after the study concluded.

On Oct 14, 2015 by Dell Cameron

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Scientists just completed a game of ’20 questions’ using only brain waves

Is it a donkey?

On Sep 25, 2015 by Dylan Love

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Harvard built a robotic military exoskeleton—but it’s nothing like you imagined

These are definitely not the mechanized metallic suits of science fiction.

On Sep 24, 2015 by Dylan Love

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This rope bridge was constructed entirely by drones

Foundational work in the field of aerial construction, coming out of ETH Zurich.

On Sep 22, 2015 by Dylan Love

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The future of Bitcoin could be as anonymous and private as Tor

Bitcoin was never designed to be truly anonymous.

On Sep 22, 2015 by Patrick Howell O'Neill

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The Navy has figured out a way to pilot 50 drones at once

'The notion of the drone swarm is that the whole is greater than sum of parts.'

On Sep 18, 2015 by Dylan Love

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Lost GoPro found after two years with incredible space footage of Grand Canyon

Could this be the most epic college science project of all time?

On Sep 16, 2015 by Gavia Baker-Whitelaw

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This folding paper microscope costs less than a dollar, but could revolutionize science

The Foldscope is a project out of Stanford University.

On Sep 8, 2015 by Dylan Love

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The truth behind why so many studies you see on Facebook are ‘proven wrong’

It's called science, stupid.

On Sep 2, 2015 by Miri Mogilevsky

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The Navy’s new drone is practically a Transformer

It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s … an amphibious drone?!

On Aug 26, 2015 by Dylan Love

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Speech-analysis software perfectly predicts which people will develop schizophrenia

Researchers also opened the door to other uses of the technology beyond psychoses.

On Aug 26, 2015 by Eric Geller

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Could tiny bee backpacks help us understand colony collapse disorder?

This research is being carried out by scientists at Australia's CSIRO science agency in partnership with Intel and Hitachi.

On Aug 26, 2015 by Dylan Love

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Social media is changing how we react to natural disasters

These days, a wide-reaching Facebook post can be far better than a short-wave radio transmission.

On Aug 21, 2015 by Cynthia McKelvey

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Scientists built a vomiting robot to help them study the spread of viruses

It may be gross, but it has a purpose.

On Aug 21, 2015 by Cynthia McKelvey

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NASA just pledged $200,000 to help turn poop into astronaut food

Mark Blenner of Clemson University has a radical idea that might enable long-term space exploration.

On Aug 19, 2015 by Dylan Love