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The Week In Numbers: A 3-D Printed Invisibility Cloak, Skyscrapers That...
20 Fenchurch StreetLandSecurities/Canary Wharf Group PLC£946: the money the developers of a curved glass building in London paid to Martin Lindsay after reflected light from the skyscraper melted his...
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SkylonReaction Engines' Skylon spacecraft would make short hauls into orbit, come back, and be ready to do it again two days later.Nick Kaloterakis$3.6 billion: the funding a team of engineers needs to...
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The Week In Numbers: Sad News For Life On Mars, Earth's Smallest Car, And More
No Martians here?NASA / USGS1.3 parts per billion: the maximum concentration of methane in the Martian atmosphere, according to a new analysis from the rover Curiosity (sadly, this means the red planet...
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Jang Bogo Space Group and KOPRI. Ice Lab commissioned by British Council and curated by The Arts Catalyst. 2014: the year this aerodynamic, flying saucer-like research station is set to open in...
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Exoplanet COROT-7b It rains rocks here ESO/L. Calçada4,580 degrees Fahrenheit: the surface temperature on exoplanet COROT-7b, one of the 10 worst places to live in the universe, according to NASA...
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The Week In Numbers: Humanity's Last Common Ancestor, The Birth Of NASA, And...
Sardinian Fishermen Two men go fishing the traditional way off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia. One new study of human ancestry used the genetic diversity of Sardinian men to determine the...
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The Week In Numbers: The First Lab-Grown Burger, 3-D Printed Body Parts, And...
The Body Shop Kevin Hand $600,000: the funding the National Institutes of Health has awarded to bioprinting projects since 2007. See how 3-D printed body parts will revolutionize medicine.20,000: the...
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The Week In Numbers: On-Demand Quantum Teleportation, A New Mammal Species,...
Hello, Olinguito Mark Gurney 2 pounds: the weight of the olinguito, an adorable carnivorous mammal species just discovered in South America20 millikelvins: the temperature at which scientists recently...
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The Week In Numbers: A 3-D Printer For Liver Tissue, The Sharpest Space...
The NovoGen MMX Bioprinter Photograph by Timothy Hogan 250 microns: the thickness of the microtissues printed out by the first commercial 3-D bioprinter, which will soon help biochemists test new...
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The Week In Numbers: Scientists Grow A Brain, Element 115 Exists, And More
Brain In A Dish A 3-D model brain organoid with different brain regions. All cells show up blue, neural stem cells are red and neurons are green. Madeline A. Lancaster 4 millimeters: the size of a...
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The Week In Numbers: A 3-D Printed Invisibility Cloak, Skyscrapers That...
20 Fenchurch Street LandSecurities/Canary Wharf Group PLC£946: the money the developers of a curved glass building in London paid to Martin Lindsay after reflected light from the skyscraper melted his...
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The Week In Numbers: A One-Way Trip To Mars, The Next Space Shuttle, And More
Skylon Reaction Engines' Skylon spacecraft would make short hauls into orbit, come back, and be ready to do it again two days later. Nick Kaloterakis $3.6 billion: the funding a team of engineers...
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The Week In Numbers: Sad News For Life On Mars, Earth's Smallest Car, And More
No Martians here? NASA / USGS 1.3 parts per billion: the maximum concentration of methane in the Martian atmosphere, according to a new analysis from the rover Curiosity (sadly, this means the red...
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The Week In Numbers: The Periodic Table Gets An Update, Curiosity Finds Lots...
Curiosity at the Sand Shadow Site in Mars' Gale Crater NASA 2 percent: the portion of Martian soil that was water in a recent analysis from the rover Curiosity4: the number of aluminum mirrors in...
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The Week In Numbers: NASA Shuts Down, The First Artificial Pancreas, And More
The Year In Science Jesse Lenz 97 percent: the portion of NASA employees who were furloughed by the government shutdown this week. Happy 55th birthday, NASA.1,800 degrees Fahrenheit: the estimated...
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The Week In Numbers: How Cats See The World, The Speed Of Elephant Pee, And More
Cat Vision Nickolay Lamm200 degrees: the visual field of a cat (humans see just 180 degrees)42.3 gallons: the volume an elephant can urinate in a single go  20 seconds: about how long it takes nearly...
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The Week In Numbers: The Farthest-Ever Confirmed Galaxy, NASA's New Moon...
A Galaxy Far, Far Away This Hubble Space Telescope image shows numerous galaxies, with z8_GND_5296 boxed in red. V. Tilvi (Texas A&M), S. Finkelstein (UT Austin), the CANDELS team, and HST/NASA...
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The Week In Numbers: The World's Oldest Animal, A New Mission To Mars, And More
Bertha Courtesy Washington State Department of Transportation 57.5 feet: the width of the world's largest tunnel-boring machine, the 25,000-horsepower Bertha 10 months: the time it will take NASA's...
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The Week In Numbers: Meat-Free Meat, A Futuristic Warship, And More
Chicken-Free Strips It took more than two decades to create a vegetable-based meat analogue with a consistency and texture similar to chicken; Whole Foods began selling the packaged Beyond Meat...
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The Week In Numbers: The Rise Of Bed Bugs, A Portable X-Ray Machine, And More
Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two 2,500 mph: the speed attained this year by the six-passenger Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two, the first commercial spacecraft to exceed...
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