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In truth, galactic cosmic rays (GCR) don’t bestow otherworldly abilities. Their gift is an increased risk of cancer. While this isn’t a concern within Earth’s magnetosphere,…

In movies, robots typically masquerade as humans in order to infiltrate society and annihilate us. In real life, researchers are more concerned about the damage androids…

When a cartoon character has an idea, a light bulb illuminates above his head—a metaphor for how a new thought just seems to click into existence in the human brain. Now…

Fans funded Shenmue III to the tune of $1 million in less than two hours from launch, the fastest to hit that mark except for Pebble Time.

Diamonds are already one of the hardest natural substances known to science. But combine them with graphene, and diamond nanoparticles are also incredibly slippery, which can…

At their E3 announcement Monday, Sony announced they would expand their pilot run of Playstation Vue. Subscribers will be able to buy access to either individual channels or…

Last week, Russian photographer Ralph Mirebs posted an album of the Soviet shuttle languishing in a hangar. This is why the program never took off.

What has lasers, a torpedo-shaped body, and is capable of tunneling where no one has tunneled before? VALKYRIE, one of the 'cryobots' that is paving the way towards exploring…

Seventy years after the first Cold War began, and almost 24 years after it ended, the United States is again stationing troops and tanks in Europe to protect against Russian…

On this day in 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Before she boarded the Vostok 6 to orbit Earth 48 times, Tereshkova didn't have any pilot…

To fight drones, a state-owned Russian defense firm is developing an anti-drone “microwave gun,” according to Russian state-owned news site Sputnik. The gun will have a range…

Starfish apparently really like their privacy. Two biology students in Denmark learned this the hard way. They'd been given a relatively simple assignment; label starfish…

Aguadrone, a crowdfunding project on Kickstarter by Daniel Marion, manages to combine the worlds of fly fishing and remote control aircraft, creating a waterproof quadcopter…

There may be “no place like home” in The Wizard Of Oz, but in the Milky Way, there could be billions of planets that are like Earth. But really big planets are a lot easier…

In less than a month, the New Horizons spacecraft will encounter Pluto, after a nearly decade-long journey. The spacecraft launched in 2006, the same year that Pluto was…

At a music festival called “Download,” British police scanned 90,000 faces to look for criminals, and then promptly deleted them all. Held last week in Leicestershire, the…

From prosthetic hands to an entire bridge, you can pretty much 3D print anything you can imagine. But the materials to make them are diversifying a bit more slowly. Now…

Philae phoned home last weekend, but the connection wasn’t very good. The lander, which was lost in a bungled landing attempt in November, woke up from a long hibernation on…

We live on a planet that is mostly covered in water, but only a small portion of that liquid is drinkable. There are freshwater rivers and streams, but increasingly, we rely…

American consumers are finally winding down their love-hate relationship with trans fats. Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that manufacturers must…

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