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By JB Sanders<\/p>\n

Snow!<\/p>\n

Real Warp Drive<\/a><\/Strong>
\nNo, I’m not kidding. They’re working on it at NASA. It doesn’t break Einstein’s law of relativity, either.<\/p>\n

One Drone to Rule Them All<\/a><\/Strong>
\nThis clever hacker has come up with a drone that seeks out other drones, hacks them mid-air, and then adds them to your robot army. Your flying robot army, obviously.<\/p>\n

Oldest Human DNA Found: 400,000 Years Old<\/a><\/Strong>
\nYup, you read that number right. Some remains found in a Spanish cave gave up DNA, and it has some interesting thing to say. For one thing, it’s not Neanderthal, but a sister race much closer to the Denisovans (who were around about the same time). Who knows what else the DNA will give up?<\/p>\n

Old Master’s Using Cameras to Paint?<\/a> <\/Strong>
\nSo Johannes Vermeer is a Dutch painter who mastered a photo-realistic painting technique that was pretty amazing for 1653, and for a guy 21 years old. Did he secretly use a Camera Obscura to paint his masterpieces (now hanging in major museums)? Long article talking about the puzzle, and the documentary unraveling it by Penn & Teller.<\/p>\n

An Object Impossible to Make, OK to Print<\/Strong>
\nSo these guys decided to create an object that could ONLY be created using a 3D printer, and they wanted to make it as complex as possible. Take a look at the video showing the sphere created entirely with interacting gears.<\/p>\n