What do seventh graders think of scientists before and after they meet a real one at the Fermilab?

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Yes, your printer is spying on you, says the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

In a purported effort to identify counterfeiters, the US government has succeeded in persuading some color laser printer manufacturers to encode each page with identifying information.

That’s right – that "anonymous memo" you printed on your last printer may not be so anonymous after all…

Link | Xerox DocuColor’s Tracking Dots

Checkout more of Ben’s artwork here: Link

Assassin Spider. Charles Griswold of the California Academy of Sciences and Hannah Wood of the San Francisco State University discovered 9 new species of the aptly named Assassin spiders, which survive by preying on other spiders. Link

Who says radiators have to be boring? Checkout this artful Droog Design’s version: Link (you may have to hunt around a little bit)

Luke Powell took a series of amazing photos on Afghanistan, but this one caught my attention:

Dog Fights are a popular sport in Afghanistan. Dogs fight to settle dominance, and once a dog knows that he cannot win, he yields, he rolls over, bareing his underside, and the match is over.

It may happen that occasionally an ear or a lip gets snagged in a dog fight and the match is a bit bloody, this is why the ears of the dogs are cut short when they are young, but dogs are rarely injured seriously in a supervised fight like this.

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Cane toads are a bane for Australians since they were brought over from Hawaii to control pest beetles (turns out the toads were an even bigger problem!).

Scientists perplexed by the toad’s increasingly fast invasion rate found out that the toads have evolved longer legs to hop longer distances!

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Checkout Nissan’s new Star Trek inspired concept car, the Terranaut. Link