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This concrete can heal its own cracks, because it’s packed with bacteria

Most concrete is lazy. It sits around and waits for someone else to patch it. But not this, the Horatio Alger of concretes.

Meet the rubber chicken that makes people care about space

Rubber chickens have a reputation for being silly. Camilla, the rubber chicken mascot of NASA's Solar Dynamic's Lab, is anything but.

The Times’ thorough overview of climate change’s new political moment

In the New York Times today is a handy overview of environmental politics over the course of Obama’s first term, focused on the new, post-Sandy reality. Just getting up to speed after, like, a Rip van Winkle-sort-of thing? Read it. Well, everyone else might want to take a look, too; that’s why I’m putting up […]

Four teenage girls in Africa have invented a generator powered by pee

We are jealous we didn't think of this first.

One day, your ears could power your hearing aids

Human ears are basically a fleshy battery.

Extremely bad news, everyone: McDonald’s sales are down for the first time in years

We'll get through this together, if we all promise to eat crap for a while.

What we can learn from California’s attempt to label GMOs

The odds of success were long. California's flawed initiative process certainly didn't help.

This recycled-plastic bike rack would be great if it actually worked

The rack's made out of 15,000 juice pouches made by Honest Tea, which donated it to the store. Now, if only it worked.

Colorado district wants to hoard drinking water so oil companies can maybe use it

Who could complain about that?

This weird cologne is supposed to smell like sushi

To be fair, it apparently has more of a grassy, rice-y, seaweed-y, gingery, lemon smell.