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Science Is Giving Bee-Like Robots Bee-Like Brains

The word "drone" comes, in part, from bees, so it's really only fitting that researchers are developing aerial drones that are the size of bees. To make them so small, researchers "at Harvard":http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu/ have had to figure out...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.26.12
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Soon Cops Will Digitally Dust Crime Scenes for Partial Footprints

Generally, my assumption of the ins and outs of crime scene forensics is a mythicism of field detectives performing high-tech feats in order to solve a mystery with some encrusted semen. I'd only expect that investigation units have access to some...
Daniel Stuckey
10.26.12
Features

A Feminist Celebration of Kendrick Lamar’s Dick

We all wanna fuck the world for 72 hours, right?
Caitlin White
10.26.12
Benh Zeitlin + Court 13

Help Beasts Of The Southern Wild Win A Gotham Audience Award

Vote for Behn Zeitlin + Court 13’s film, and watch our behind-the-scenes videos on Beasts Of The Southern Wild.
Emily Dubovoy
10.26.12
Music

Creators Remix Roundup: Sulumi, Dillon Francis, And Mark Ronson

Sulumi brings back Snoop Lion, Dillon Francis synthesizes Monsta, and Mark Ronson à la Avan Lava.
Jennifer Mills
10.26.12
videos

There's a Forest Full of Bodies in Tennessee, and It's for Science

Here’s something macabre for you: In the east Tennessee woods lie dozens of corpses in various states of burial and decay. Welcome to The Body Farm.
Derek Mead
10.26.12
Tech

Toxic Tuna

Fukushima's fish are at consumable levels but still contain various and complex ranges of radioactivity.
Daniel Stuckey
10.26.12
Music

Hyped: The Week In Links 10/26

Busy week? Here are some things you may have missed.
Kevin Holmes
10.26.12
Features

Ne-Yo, Herbie Hancock, & John Rzeznik Team Up for "Forward," a New Anthem for Obama's 2012 Campaign

The debates are over. President Obama and Willard Mitt Romney will never be forced to publicly speak to each other ever again. But, like senior prom, it's not about how things start, but how they finish…
Benjamin Shapiro
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Forget Nukes, Maybe We Can Block Asteroids with Paintballs

Remember that time Bruce Willis and the American rock 'n roll band Aerosmith saved planet Earth by blowing up an asteroid in an act of ultimate human sacrifice? Turns out they were pretty stupid and, instead of nukes, they could have just launched a...
Michael Byrne
10.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Robots Are Controlling Each Other Now

This vid was presented earlier this month at the latest International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Vilamoura, Algarve in Portugal by Rehan O'Grady, and Marco Dorigo, from Universite Libre de Bruxelles and Instituto...
Lara Heintz
10.26.12
Pen Pals

I'm in Love with This Fake Pussy

I’m a brutally honest man, which is about to get me in trouble. I should never admit that this plastic suction cup slut with soft, slimy, rubber guts feels better than my girl’s own bonerable treasure trove, but it does. Tenga is the best snatch on...
Bert Burykill
10.26.12
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