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Time lapse video of mushrooms springing to life
 Who would have thought that watching mushrooms grow would be so entertaining. Two more videos after the jump.
 

 Most robots wish they had a bit more rat brain in them
After buttoning up a lab coat, snapping on surgical gloves and spraying them with alcohol, I am deemed sanitary enough to view a robot’s control system up close. Without such precautions, any fungal spores on my skin could infect it. “We’ve had that happen. [...]

 
Police are planting secret GPS devices on cars to monitor potential criminals
The Washington Post has a long investigative article on how more and more police departments are secretly planting GPS tracking devices on the cars of people they are investigating — usually without a warrant. After-the-fact court challenges on this technique have largely upheld such [...]

 If cars can talk, exactly what will they say to each other?
The European Commission has recently decided to reserve, across Europe, part of the radio spectrum for smart vehicle communications systems. The decision is part of the Commission’s overall fight against road accidents and traffic jams, and the hope is that vehicles’ developers will create [...]

 
But can they create a clone of a clone?
On August 5, an American woman received her five purchased pitbull puppy clones at South Korea’s Seoul National University Hospital for Animals. Bernann McKinney paid the firm $50,000 for the five dogs from RNL Bio, reported as the world’s first successful commercial dog [...]

 
In a bright studio at New York University, Natalie Jeremijenko welcomes visitors to her environmental health clinic. She wears a white lab coat with a rotated red cross on the pocket. A clipboard with intake forms hangs by the door.

The water boatman uses a thin layer of air on its body to breathe underwater.
To swim underwater, hundreds of species of insects like the water boatman bring along their own air bubbles.

 
The Hubble Telescope completes 100,000th orbit and takes yet another breathtaking photo.

 
 Asus Vit W1 Wireless Laser Mouse
Ever wonder if your heart rate goes up while you’re off surfing the web? Well wonder no more!

 
Athletes using performance-enhancing drugs can’t stay ahead of detection methods for very long.
Athletes aren’t the only ones racing against the clock this week in Beijing. A team of skilled scientists is working 24 hours a day at a drug-testing lab in Beijing’s Olympic Sports Center, analyzing approximately 4,500 blood and urine samples for banned substances. [...]