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View ArticleBrilliant Teenagers, World-Saving Tech and Dance Parties at Microsoft's...
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The Love Competition McSweeney's and Stanford MRI Lab McSweeney's, purveyor of pretty books, magazines, and short-form web comedy, teamed up with the Stanford MRI Lab for a short film, featured in...
View ArticleGallery: The Winners of Microsoft's 2012 Imagine Cup
Dek ArrayThe games at the Imagine Cup are always fun, but they tend to focus more on raising awareness of problems than actually solving them. But this year's winner of game design for Windows Phone,...
View ArticleThe 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft's Imagine Cup
The Imagine Cup winners gather onstage at the awards ceremony Julie Beck View Photo GalleryClick here to enter the gallery.At the afterparty for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology...
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View ArticleHow To Win A Trampoline War, According To Science
Before Alison Sheets was an assistant professor at Ohio State University, she was a competitive gymnast who knew her way around a trampoline. Over dinner one day, she began explaining the dynamics of...
View ArticleThis Game Brings Post-Apocalypse To The Present
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View ArticleHow a Team of Enthusiasts Are Mapping Dark Matter
When the Euclid mission lifts off at the end of this decade, it will map galaxy clusters in infrared and visible light, helping to blueprint the large-scale structure of the…
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Every year we’re enthralled by the smallest things among us, as scientists capture stunningly beautiful and bizarre images under the microscope. For the first time, the…
View ArticleVideo: McSweeney's and the Stanford MRI Lab Host the World's First Love...
McSweeney's, purveyor of pretty books, magazines, and short-form web comedy, teamed up with the Stanford MRI Lab for a short film, featured in McSweeney's newest Wholphin DVD…
View ArticleKicking Off the 2012 Microsoft Imagine Cup With Student-Made Kinect Projects
This year's Imagine Cup, a dream-of-the-future student competition in which "technology helps solve the world's toughest questions," was held in Sydney. The opening…
View ArticleThe Most Amazing Projects We Saw At Microsoft's Imagine Cup 2012
There's a dancing koala bear running around this auditorium. One hell of a powerful fog machine is filling the room with smoke. And before long, a man is going to walk down…
View ArticleWhy Is The U.K. Looking To Kids For Cybersecurity Help?
The United Kingdom is worried about not having enough cybersecurity professionals in the near future. To counteract that, a group drawn from business and government is launching a series of...
View ArticleThe 8 Best Student Tech Projects At Microsoft's Imagine Cup
. At the afterparty for Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a worldwide student technology competition, some of the smartest students in the world are singing "Like a Virgin." One of…
View ArticleThis Game Brings Post-Apocalypse To The Present
In the wake of a mysterious disaster that destroys human civilization, a poisonous mist has spread over the land. The only way to gain immunity to the deadly miasma is by…
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Here at Popular Science, we’re big fans of visualizations—those often beautiful and always illuminating intersections of science and art. So we’re thrilled to announce a…
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