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Wind Energy Is Actually Booming in the US. You Just Have to Look for It.
Nearly 80,000 people are employed in the US wind energy sector, which is providing enough energy to power 19 million households.
The Texas Desert Still Holds the Remains of a Partially-Built Supercollider
The Higgs-Boson might have been discovered in Texas, had the Desertron not been defunded in 1993.
The Most Militarized Universities in America: Our Ranking Methodology Explained
Data from approximately 90,000 résumés belonging to members of the United States Intelligence Community were adjusted with more than 50 weighted variables during months of analysis.
The World's Most Powerful Camera Will Snap an Area 40x Bigger Than the Moon
Over ten years, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will observe more galaxies than there are people on Earth.
Driverless Taxis Could Already Be Cheaper Than Cabs, Department of Energy Says
Driverless cars will inevitably revolutionize the taxi industry, according to a new study by researchers at the Department of Energy.
How a Bunch of Tiny Robots Will Help Crack Dark Energy
Automating the tedious work of manually resetting thousands of fiber-optic cables at a time.
This Will Be the World's Most Powerful Supercomputer By a Mile
'Aurora' is the next step toward building a computer that matches the power of the human brain.
Why Government Researchers Think We May Be Living in a 2D Hologram
You, me, and everyone you know could be living in a two-dimensional hologram, according to a government physicist.
New Bionic Eye Can Make You Just Like the Terminator
Well, not just like the Terminator. But the FDA has approved a bionic eyeball to help people see.
Speaking of U.S. Cuts to Science ...
Let's assume you've already watched our "brand new documentary":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/25/motherboard-tv-a-death-on-the-frontier--4 on Fermilab's Tevatron collider and America's steadily growing reticence to fund scientific research...