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Good news, America! Most of the country has great seats for tomorrow’s total lunar eclipse, which is set to take place around 7:54 a.m. Eastern. But you’ll have to be…

You are hiding from enemy soldiers when an orphaned baby begins to cry. Do you smother the baby, if it's the only way to save yourself and the others from the enemy from…

Whether it’s on a keyboard, a smartphone, or even a credit card reader, you spend a lot of your day typing. Well, researchers at MIT noticed the value of this daily habit,…

If the war of the future is a cyberwar, it will need weapons with a specific anti-computer focus. While bullets and bombs can certainly destroy computers, Congress is…

On the edge of Mountain View, California, they sat. Gigantic, hollow, towering husks. The airship hangars at the Moffett Airfield are a diesel-punk ruin, empty coffins for…

Every bomb that doesn’t go off is a future bad day waiting to happen. In Laos, unexploded bombs dropped during the Vietnam War still kill hundreds of people annually.

The MQ-9 Reaper is an aerial beast with a terrestrial home. Built as a heavier-armed upgrade over its Predator predecessor, the Reaper is best known as a scout and marksman…

Here are some of the many factors that have contributed to the Ebola virus spreading in different ways and at different speeds in the worst-affected countries.

In January, the biotech company Genentech reportedly committed $10 million for access to the DNA of 3,000 Parkinson’s patients and their families. A week later, Pfizer made…

The whole idea behind the term permafrost, is that it is a permanently frozen layer of soil. Perma = Permanent, Frost = Brrr. Perma + Frost = You aren't getting warm again…

Caltech researchers have created a tiny silicon chip with an array of laser sensors that can produce a detailed 3D scan of an object.

You can harden fiber-optic internet cabling against heat, ice, flooding, mold, and even crushing pressures. But apparently not monkeys. The cable's freshly extruded plastic…

Going to the doctor to see if you have strep throat might be a hassle, but it’s next to impossible for people who live in remote regions with limited access to healthcare.

Can one file a police misconduct complaint against a robot? It’s a question protesters in Uttar Pradesh, India may have to answer soon, as police in Lucknow and Uvalde are…

What do you do when the lights go out and your flashlight is dead? As an intrepid DIYer, you simply hack together an emergency candle from whatever supplies you have on…

Body armor suffers from a core tension: it must be light enough so the soldier wearing it can still fight effectively, but strong enough to actually stop bullets and…

Deep in the Amazon basin, shaman prepare a natural tea called ayahuasca to bring its drinkers to hallucinogenic states of revelation. People come to the region from all…

Festo is building a mechanical menagerie. The German industrial design firm specializes in bio-inspired robots, which may find a use in future factories, like these …

Generally when you think of solar power, the sun beating down on a dry, dusty desert might come to mind. But in Brazil, a new project will see solar panels installed on a…

After the disaster comes the accountants. Major tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and the like do dollar amounts of damage, sometimes in the billions. That number comes…

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