A roundup of today's most provocative stories, as voted by our readers.
Sponsored By Most Hilarious: 56%
(Newser) - If you haven’t done it yet, looks like you’ve missed your window to find out who has unfriended you on Facebook . Last week, a list of friends available in the Timeline profile pages made it clear who had removed you as a friend; they were the ones in...
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Most Brilliant: 91%
(Newser) - Researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. The engine has a rotor that's equipped with wave-like channels that trap and mix oxygen and fuel as the rotor spins. These central inlets are blocked...
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Most Scary: 75%
(Newser) - Some of us have bad days at work, and then some of us mistakenly send perfectly alive people to the morgue: Such is the case of 62-year-old Brazilian Rosa Celestrino de Assis, who made the grave mistake of showing no vital signs while being treated for pneumonia, reports the AFP...
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Most Depressing: 81%
(Newser) - Ten years and $66 billion later, not one Afghan battalion is able to operate on its own,
Wired reports. That was the conclusion today by Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, who set new benchmarks for US progress in training soldiers and expressed alarm over the attrition rates of Afghan men in...
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Most Intriguing: 89%
(Newser) - A planet in our solar system may have been nudged out billions of years ago and left to wander the galaxy alone. It's a good thing, too, because that helped Earth survive, a Colorado scientist says. David Nesvorny performed thousands of computer simulations of our solar system's early...
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Most Annoying: 86%
(Newser) - Lady Gaga getting diamond tooth implants? It might be hard to believe—if the singer wasn’t already known for her avant-garde fashion decisions. “She's still deciding how many to get done. Her dental bill will be as expensive as her jewelry bill,” a source tells the...
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