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With hard-hitting safety Bernard Pollard predicting the NFL’s demise within decades, and President Obama saying he would never let his daughters play football, the safety and future of America’s favorite pastime is being called into question more than ever.

Players are getting bigger, faster and stronger causing larger and more powerful collisions.

How can we save the NFL from becoming a powderpuff league? A company called Tech21 may have accidentally discovered the answer.

Shrimp are delicious, but you probably don’t want to mess with a mantis shrimp.

Do you like fire, knives and exploding fruit? Then you’ll love them in ridiculously mind-blowingly slow-motion.

When you’re on the go, you may not be able to shower or deodorize. To avoid stinkin’ up the joint, there’s a new alternative.

We’re emitting a large number of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere everyday. They’re unable to escape from the planet, and they trap the sun’s heat, gradually raising temperatures around the globe.

What if we could mimic plants to convert carbon dioxide (CO2) into Ethanol? We are.

Nuclear fusion is considered by many to be the holy grail of power generators, but until that process is ready, the planet is still forced to use the dangerous alternative, nuclear fission.

Chernobyl and Fukishima are but two examples of what can go wrong in today’s water cooled, solid fuel nuclear power plants fed rods of uranium.

What if there were a safer alternative that used a fuel source more stable, more common, produced less waste, more efficient, and didn’t contain the inherent threat of nuclear weapons?

Such a technology has existed for over 60 years but has been collecting mothballs. Let me introduce you to LFTR.

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What is the most dangerous place on Earth?

It depends on your definition… 

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Researchers at at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have been successfully using spongy gold nanoparticles to starve cancer cells to death.

Scientists are making progress on a nicotine vaccine that could provide a lifetime shield from the drug’s addicting properties. The addictiveness of nicotine has been the subject of much discussion on sites like www.ProjectKnow.com, which also emphasize how hard it is to kick the habit. This vaccine, however, gives smokers around the world hope; it is believed that this method could help not only those currently addicted, but potentially prevent future addiction altogether.

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News from the brainy folks over at MIT’s materials research department: a film that can generate energy from water vapor in the air!