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Laminar Technologies TurboTap

geninnTurboTap_170.jpg Pumping beer too quickly leads to excess foam, so bar patron turned inventor Matt Younkle designed the TurboTap to reduce the turbulence of fast-flowing beer. The tap's tapered...

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Intelligent Energy

geninnENV_485.jpg A Fuel-Cell Motorcycle With Portable Power Riding the ENV is more akin to skiing or sailing than cruising on a 176-pound motorcycle. It's emission-free and as quiet as your computer....

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Ascadia Zubbles

geninnZubbles_485.jpg You may think you've seen these before, but you haven't. Although traditional clear soap bubbles give you a rainbow effect in the right light, Zubbles are the first truly colored...

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IBM/SONY/TOSHIBA Cell Chip

geninnCellChip_485.jpg With nine processors and 234 million transistors, the Cell is the powerhouse of Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3 console. The four-plus-gigahertz (depending on its application)...

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Blastgard International Blastwrap

geninnBubbleWrap_485.jpg It looks like Bubble Wrap, but BlastWrap isn't for cushioning eBay shipments. A BlastWrap-lined garbage can will dissipate a backpack-size-bomb blast in less than one...

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Super-Powerful X-Ray Beam Will Probe the Center of the Earth

Beamline Sample This image shows the heating of a catalyst sample in an "in situ" cell at actual operating conditions. The catalyst is studied using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy. A new...

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Double-Diamond Anvil Creates Pressures Greater Than Earth's Inner Core

Pressure Chamber Argonne National Laboratory With a new megapressure environment, scientists will be able to replicate pressures one and a half times stronger than those found at the center of the...

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FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?

Towards Earth's Core 20th Century Fox/Everett Collection Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun's surface—and would...

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Blastgard International Blastwrap

It looks like Bubble Wrap, but BlastWrap isn't for cushioning eBay shipments. A BlastWrap-lined garbage can will dissipate a backpack-size-bomb blast in less than one…

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IBM/SONY/TOSHIBA Cell Chip

With nine processors and 234 million transistors, the Cell is the powerhouse of Sony's forthcoming PlayStation 3 console. The four-plus-gigahertz (depending on its…

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Intelligent Energy

A Fuel-Cell Motorcycle With Portable Power Riding the ENV is more akin to skiing or sailing than cruising on a 176-pound motorcycle. It's emission-free and as quiet as your…

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Laminar Technologies TurboTap

Pumping beer too quickly leads to excess foam, so bar patron turned inventor Matt Younkle designed the TurboTap to reduce the turbulence of fast-flowing beer. The tap's…

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Ascadia Zubbles

You may think you've seen these before, but you haven't. Although traditional clear soap bubbles give you a rainbow effect in the right light, Zubbles are the first truly…

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Super-Powerful X-Ray Beam Will Probe the Center of the Earth

It is much easier to get to Mars than to get deep inside this planet, so for all our knowledge about things like earthquakes and the magnetic field, Earth's interior is…

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Double-Diamond Anvil Creates Pressures Greater Than Earth's Inner Core

With a new megapressure environment, scientists will be able to replicate pressures one and a half times stronger than those found at the center of the Earth. The specialized anvil cell can create...

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FYI: If I Fell Through Earth, What Would Happen In The Center?

Just getting to the center of the Earth and surviving is impossible. The Earth's core is about 9,000°F—as hot as the sun's surface—and would instantly roast anyone who…

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Earth Has A Layer No One Knew About

Our perspective of Earth tends to be very shallow--literally. Everything we experience, from the deepest depths of the ocean to the highest mountain peaks, only skims the…

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