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Amazon's new Kindle Convert app lets you turn your paper books into digital copies...as long as you don't mind scanning the whole volume.

, a new book by Colin Salter, is a compilation of images that show what the human body looks like under a microscope. With an artistic eye, the book showcases cells, microbes, and more. Here are some of our favorite images from Science Is Beautiful.…

Ride-sharing service Uber is partnering with Carnegie Mellon University to develop cars that will drive themselves, and could someday drive you around too.

President Obama wants to give NASA’s missions a big boost. Monday afternoon, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden updated the nation on the state of its space agency, noting…

Eero is a new wireless router that promises to make extensible networks easy to set up and use, bringing coverage to your entire home.

To find a new species of mold, look no further than inside your sandwich. A team of food scientists from across Europe have discovered a new kind of fungus growing on salami, which they’ve aptly named Penicillium salamii. The researchers made the find after setting out to catalogue all of the fungi located on cured meats at a meat packing plant in Italy. The survey was part of a government initiative to increase food safety, the study says. Generally, salami uses Penicillium nalgiovense--a white, edible mold--in the meat curing process. When the salami is cased, spiced, and ready to go,…

Military secrets are only as secure the loneliest private. A report by online network security firm FireEye details that in the ongoing Syrian civil war, online forces…

What's that in your St. John's wort supplement, or your ginkgo biloba pill? What if it's not the plant you thought at all? The New York State Attorney General's office…

The Paleo diet seeks to get back to our ancient roots. But why stop there?

Arguably more ambitious than the Human Genome Project or the Apollo program, the Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative endeavors to demystify our…

Mysterious cars have been spotted driving around California are probably Apple's attempt to build out its mapping data, and not self-driving automobiles.

Like many people, I initially enjoyed the "Like a Girl" advertisement that Always, the menstrual-pad brand, ran during this year's Super Bowl. Boys and women were asked to…

Be careful at the dog park!

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed tighter "net neutrality" rules to govern how broadband providers, both wired and wireless, can manage their traffic.

How does a hobbyist make their drone stand out from the sea of identical quadcopters? Dress it up like it’s got stolen goods inside and the Galactic Empire is on it’s tail,…

Perhaps you imagine the Internet as a set of tubes, or a web, or series of garden paths. One student in Paris imagined it as a galaxy. He has made a visualization of…

After waking up from its nearly 5-year-long slumber, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is fully powered and making its way to distant dwarf planet Pluto. And as it gets closer, the probe will be sending back some killer images of the rock and its tiny moon Charon. Well today, we got our first taste of what the mission will offer. NASA just released the first couple of images captured by LORRI, New Horizons’ telescopic Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager, during the spacecraft’s 2015 approach. Taken on January 25 and 27, the photographs are still pretty grainy—New Horizons was about 126 million…

Right before Chinese New Years, two new military helicopters are making the testing rounds; the Z-20 medium and Z-18A heavy utility helicopters.

This week, the Department of Transportation released Beyond Traffic, a report the agency describes as a 'draft framework' for the future of transportation here in the…

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