A website hopes to teach women how to have better orgasms, backed up by data.
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Silicon Valley Wants to Disrupt Orgasms—With Science!
Rescue Robots Should Be Built Just Like Cockroaches. Sorry.
The same ability that makes roaches gross–their flexible, collapsible exoskeleton–makes them a good model for disaster robots.
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We Asked a Robot to Write an Obit for AI Pioneer Marvin Minsky
Spoiler: The robot did a pretty good job, and hit its deadline.
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Sci-Fi Movie Endings With Less Fiction and More Science
2015 was a great year for science fiction in the movies, but those flicks took a lot of liberties. Here's how a dash of real science would change things.
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How to Use Science to Make Safe Eggnog With Raw Eggs
Eggnog should be your go-to holiday tipple. Here's how to make it safe, and delicious.
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The Hajj Stampede Is a Fluid Dynamics Problem
The causes of the deadly stampede near Mecca remain the same as always: physics and evolutionary psychology.
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The Biochemist Who Made Editing DNA as Easy as Cut and Paste
The promises of total control over living genomes are about to come true---for better or for worse.
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This New Superconductivity Research Stinks
A new material loses all resistance to electricity at a higher temperature than any other–at super high pressure.
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Booze’s Secret Ingredient? Water
A few distillers are trying to figure out how important water is to their spirits.
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Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency
The magical accuracy of search engine results may be the worst thing to happen to democracy since unfettered campaign donations.
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