The Large Hadron Collider over in Europe may be making all the physics headlines as of late, but the U.S. Department of Energy is trying to scrape together between one and two billion dollars to build a particle physics lab deep in an abandoned gold mine underneath South Dakota.

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U.S. Dept. of Energy wants billion dollar underground physics lab

Are you really into dinosaurs and also fabulously wealthy? Well, good news: you can now buy yourself a 20-foot animatronic triceratops for a mere $350,000!

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Buy yourself a lifelike dinosaur for only $350,000

Quadrotors are pretty cool vehicles, able to be tightly controlled from afar to do any number of things. We usually see them when they’re performing well, but this video from UPenn shows them failing, often spectacularly.

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See a group of quadrotors fail over and over

You really don’t need to buy a theater ticket for big budget movie effects anymore. District 9 director Neill Blomkamp definitely showed that with shorts such as Tetra Vaal and Halo: Arms Race . The two shorts you’re about to see follow in the same footsteps.

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2 short films with dazzling sci-fi effects you can watch right here

The age of flash memory might be nearing a close even before those sexy SSDs really hit the mainstream market, as IBM has just announced that they’ve figured out a way to make phase-change memory a commercial reality within five years. What’s in it for you? Well, how does accessing your data about a hundred times faster sound?

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Ultra-fast phase-change memory coming to a computer near you

Note: Uncensored pictures after the jump cannot be unseen. I wasn’t going to post this because 1. I eat a lot of sushi and 2. it’s f***ing disgusting and is gonna give me nightmares FO SHO, but I’m getting the tip so much I figured I might as well. Standards: mine are incredibly low. So yeah, a shark with a single eye in the middle of its head. What’s your take, Indy? “It belongs in a freakshow museum!” According to the Pisces Fleet Sportsfishing blog, this one-eyed bull shark fetus was removed from a mother caught in Mexico’s Sea of Cortez. Apparently shark researcher Felipe Galvan Magaa is now examining this monocular specimen. I’m not sure what shark researcher Felipe Galvan Magana is going to find out, but my guess is that the X-Men’s Cyclops has a mermaid fetish and recently chartered a boat. Hit the jump for two uncensored shots that shouldn’t be viewed before, during or after eating.

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Cyclops Shark With Eye In Middle Of Face

Nothing says “America!” quite like fireworks. And how can you improve on watching fireworks explode? You can watch them explode in super-duper slo-mo .

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Celebrate America by watching fireworks explode at 2,000fps

This is The Matrix ‘lobby scene’ with the music and sound effects replaced with those made by some guy’s mouth and a multi-track recording . It’s…something. Something that made me make a strange face while I was watching it. Get it?! I was air-fellating, it was weird! Hit the jump for more PYEWS! than you could shake a raygun at and be all ‘put the money in the bag and nobody gets hurt’.

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The Matrix: Now With Acapella Sound Effects

So, you want to be a dentist. That’s all fine and good, but few people are gonna want you fiddling around inside their mouths before you know what you’re doing. Enter the Hanako 2, a robot just for dentists .

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Meet Hanako 2, a weirdly lifelike dental robot

If you have a savings account you keep in case of a rainy day, now would be a good time to cut off your access to it .

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Steam announces huge summer sale, we announce bankruptcy