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Our 10 billion year-old Milky Way galaxy seemingly gets more complicated with each new observation.

IBM research just released an adorable stop-motion movie, "A Boy And His Atom," by moving individual atoms around and imaging them. The movie is the "World's Smallest Stop-Motion Film" by the Guinness World Record. The 5...

Startup electric automaker Coda, which filed for bankruptcy today, managed to sell only about 100 units of its only model. That's not surprising: On top of insufficient funding and production delays, Coda made a really u...

We all have friends and loved ones that are endlessly confused by their PCs and constantly asking for help. Israeli startup Soluto offers a software service just for them. It was the constant calls from his mom that prom...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The new owner of Baton Rouge's daily newspaper, The Advocate, is vowing to keep publishing daily and to beef up...

If you go outside on a quiet day, you might just hear the grass making a slight rustle as if it was sentient. That's the sign of a vast birth taking place underground, as millions of cicadas crawl their way to the surfac...

J.J. Abrams can add another feather to his hat, as he will be feted with the 2013 Intl. Emmy Founders Award at the 41st Intl. Emmy Awards on Nov. 25 in Gotham. Award recognizes an individual who has crossed cultural boun...

A year ago Facebook was going public. At the time, one of the biggest worries about the company was its ability to handle the transition from the desktop to mobile. After all, it hadn't generated a dime of mobile revenue...

Fewer Facebook users are logging into the site from their computers. But rather than abandoning the site altogether, they're just shifting to its mobile app.

Willem-Alexander is the first Dutch king for 123 years

The world's biggest watch show is wrapping up in Basel, Switzerland. Hundreds of watch and jewelry retailers from around the globe showed off their finest goods and newest designs at the fair, called Baselworld. Ariel Ad...

If you're new to the Samsung Galaxy S4, you might well think you're under attack by bloops and bleeps and drops -- the cacophony of "nature' sounds Samsung's got baked into everything these days. They're there by design,...

Radioactivity: Fukushima's Nuclear Cleanup Is Faltering

The New York Times has already launched an app for the Google Glass augmented reality headset, delivering breaking news in your peripheral vision. Now, it appears that Twitter is also working towards an official app whic...

Many fans think a "Star Wars" film just wouldn't feel right without John Williams' signature symphonic sound. Director J.J. Abrams seems to agree.

An appeals court has rejected SAP's attempt to overturn a US$345 million judgment awarded to Versata Software, which had brought a patent-infringement case against the software maker. "Sufficient evidence supports the ju...

The pursuit of higher education is nearly synonymous with the pursuit of a higher salary. Some students follow their passions, while others follow dollar signs. A lucky few have passions that are also lucrative. Post-gra...

While we knew that Carolyn Moos was a former Stanford basketball player, we didn't know her full back story. Well, here's a little bit more information for you. Video after the jump.

Boston Marathon bombing investigators have taken three additional suspects into custody, the Boston Police Department revealed on its official Twitter feed today.

US company IDs 7 people killed in Afghanistan cargo plane crash; 6 from Mich., 1 from Ky. DETROIT (AP) -- The friend of one of seven Americans killed in a cargo plane crash near an Air Force base in Afghanistan described...

Radio City's annual Christmas Spectacular is months away, but auditions for the Rockettes -- those leggy dancers who are known for their uniform high-kick line -- are in full swing. Hundreds of aspiring dancers lined up ...

A United Nations draft report published online this week says the UN should get countries of the world to suspend development of robotic, fully automated weapons systems until "such time as an internationally agreed upon...