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One of the biggest missing person’s cases in the world has finally been solved. Or, at least, the biggest missing corpse case. After English King Richard III fell at the…

Someday, in the not-too-distant future, bacterial infections could be treated by implanting electronics into your body. A team from Tufts University and the University of…

Robotic cars that drive everyone around are a distant dream at best, but that hasn’t stopped auto manufacturers from selling their whiz-bang appeal. In September it was…

Testing modern naval weapons in a realistic way is tricky. In order to operate properly, ships need a crew, but there are times, like determining whether a new anti-missile…

For supercars, bigger usually means better. Bigger engine, bigger horses, bigger torque. The 918 Spyder goes in a different direction. With a V8 engine paired with two…

The X-15, the first airplane to take men into space, was built to stop pilots from killing themselves trying to set records.

Both Google and NORAD are offering Santa trackers this holiday season. Which one should you choose to keep an eye on St. Nick's progress?

After a bit of a hiatus from launching crew vehicles into space, NASA is finally getting back to doing what it does best. On Thursday, December 4, the space agency will…

For all its strength and utility, duct tape is ugly stuff. Gorilla Clear Repair looks like packing tape, but has extra adhesive and does not yellow with exposure to…

Google's unveiling a new system called No CAPTCHA reCAPTCHA, which aims to make it easier for people to prove they're not automated bots.

By studying bats, scientists found mammals have an internal compass in our brains.

How does the pufferfish stay inflated? Not by holding its breath, a pair of Australian marine scientists discovered.

If completed, the crowdfunded BEHA plane will pair two battery-powered electric turbines with solar panels, wind turbines, and a separate biodiesel engine, to fly through…

While most of the East Coast U.S. was sleeping last night, the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) launched Hayabusa 2, a deep space probe that will land on asteroid 1999 JU3,…

There's a new, ultra-fast camera that lets engineers take videos of phenomena including the movement of laser light and even faster-than-light phenomena. Watching the…

Last month, six astronauts convened in New York City to discuss the 2009 mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope. As it approached its 20th birthday, the telescope…

With improvements like better speed, more power efficiency, and Internet connectivity, Bluetooth wants to be the wireless standard for the Internet of Things.