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By Jessica Roy 10/19/12 12:53pm

Disrupt the Pizza Roll! New Scientific Invention Relieves Dreaded Hot Pocket Mouth Burn

It is one of the most devastating truths of human existence: pizza rolls are endlessly tasty, but the second you bite into one a painful eruption of molten cheese and boiling red sauce pours into your mouth like a cruel pizza volcano. And don’t even get us started on Hot Pockets. Read More

By Adrianne Jeffries 6/29/12 10:16am

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Painted battery. (Photo: Rice University)

Today’s 10 Most Mind-Blowing Tech News Items

Sometimes we get swept up in the breathless reports about RIM shares, Twitter ads, the relative sizes of Pinterest and Tumblr, and other such minor tech news items that some might call “incremental,” and so we forget that insane shit is happening with science. We’re not even talking about Google’s sky divers. Read More

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