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Issus nymph jumps so fast it outpaces its own nervous system
12 December 2013
Not only does the Issus nymph jump so fast it outpaces its own nervous system, but it also sports the first mechanical gear ever found in a living creature... read more
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Tech
Photocopying turns 75
12 December 2013
75 years ago, patent attorney Chester Carlson came up with a process, free of liquid chemicals, to create the first-ever xerographic images... read more
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Wheels
Meet Paramount’s Marauder armoured personnel carrier
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Paramount’s Marauder armoured personnel carrier shrugs off bullets and explosives. To find out what the fuss was about, we drove one of these locally built monsters... read more
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25 October 2013
To equip your ladder with non-slip, non-scratch feet, wrap the ends with sections of bicycle tyre, screwed or pop-riveted into place through the side wal... read more
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Cape Town to UK – in a vintage open-cockpit biplane
Sean Woods | 5 November 2013
Veteran classic war-bird pilot Tracey Curtis-Taylor is replicating Lady May Heath’s historic solo 1928 flight from Cape Town to England. ... read more
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13 November 2013
Download wallpaper images of cars showcased in the December 2013 issue of Popular Mechanics... read more
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Whisker follicles on the face of an embryonic mouse
11 December 2013
The epithelial-specific nuclear marker K14-H2B-GFP is expressed in a mouse embryo (16 dpc), which illustrates the pattern of whisker follicles on its face... read more
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The world’s smallest movie: A Boy and his Atom
12 December 2013
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