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Virgin Hyperloop Has Invented The World’s Crappiest High-Speed Rail

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Baseball Should Kill The Baseball

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Check Out This New Dinosaur: An Absolute Dumbass Piece Of Shit

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An Earth Robot Is Taking Soil Samples On An Asteroid Tonight And By God You Will Know About It

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French researcher in Microbiology, Genetics and Biochemistry Emmanuelle Charpentier (L) and US professor of Chemistry and of Molecular and Cell Biology, Jennifer Doudna pose beside a painting made by children of the genome at the San Francisco park in Oviedo, on October 21, 2015.

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The Nobel Prize Is Just One Front In The Extremely Fascinating CRISPR Wars

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Two Fusion Researchers Explain The Tokamak Reactor That I Want To Be Hurled Into

An engineer walks past a hulking cryostat in the construction zone of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, in France.

If Scientists Are To Create And Harness The Unfathomable Power Of A Star, They Must Agree To Hurl Me Into It