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Mass Arrest: Jupiter’s Early Migration Could Explain Mars’s Small Size

The planets of our solar system follow nice, predictable orbits, but it was not always so. In the chaotic early days of the solar system , Jupiter and its fellow giant planets seem to have migrated from their birthplaces into the stable orbits that we observe today

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Carnival will watch your kids — until 3 a.m.

Carnival Cruise Lines is rolling out Camp Carnival Night Owls, a full schedule of late-night activities and nightly babysitting services until 3 a.m. for kids 11 and under.

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Too Hard for Science? Seeing If 10,000 Hours Make You an Expert

Experiment Might Take Thousands of Volunteers and Decades of Effort In "Too Hard for Science?" I interview scientists about ideas they would love to explore that they don't think could be investigated. For instance, they might involve machines beyond the realm of possibility, such as particle accelerators as big as the sun, or they might be completely unethical, such as lethal experiments involving people.

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Can "Cambridge Crude" Sludge Revolutionize EV Battery Charging?

Breakthrough battery tech from MIT could mean recharging your EV would still involve the phrase "fill 'er up." MIT's been working on a really unusual new battery technology that turns upside-down the notions we currently have about rechargeable batteries. It involves a full rethinking of how a battery is designed, and could result in a reusable liquid that could be pumped into your battery to charge it in minutes

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Not That Secure After All: Cryptography in a Connected World

You're not going to like hearing this: the arsenal of mental and physical resources is out there right now could easily bring down our cybersecurity system, which protects the trivial, such as emails, to the critical, think banking system. The only reason it hasn't happened yet: the intent hasn't been there. [More]

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The "New Normal" Weather

It seems like there is a new flood, tornado, or hurricane every day. Is this the kind of meteorological insanity we need to learn to expect? Snowpocalypse! Tornadoes! Floods! Climate change may seem like tired old news or ideological propaganda to some of us, but this year's weather has certainly been something to sit up and take notice of.

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