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Robots that look more like ping pong balls could one day help to colonize Mars, so thinks their developer. The robots would work together in swarms of thousands to construct habitats for humans and perform gardening task...

If you have a fear of spiders, you might not want to click through. But if you have a love for bright, colorful objects, then go right ahead! More

One might not expect flowering plants with pinkish petals to be flourishing on the floor of a dark cave, but that's exactly where researchers discovered such a species in southern China.

Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: The latest "stupid animal tricks" video shows an iPhone being swallowed by an elephant, followed by its recovery from a pile of dung. Is it fake or real?

Looking to put together a sexy camera bag? Already have a messenger bag you want to carry your camera in? Love the look and feel of waxed canvas bags but don't want to fork over the money to buy one new? This tutorial is...

A new effort used technology to boost giving resulted in big donations to hunger-related charities this holiday.

Ringing in 2013 properly requires a few things: bottom-shelf champagne, "I survived the apocalypse" t-shirts, excessive sequins and -- most importantly -- New Year's resolutions that may or may not last beyond February. ...

This mom gave her teenage son an iPhone for Christmas. She also gave him an 18-point contract lining out what is and isn't acceptable use of the new toy. More About: Lifestyle, parenting

Photographer and photography student Eric Omori has an interesting project that combines the modern with the historical. He has been capturing paintball wars using wet plate photography. The project is titled Weekend War...

Need help carrying out your New Year's resolution? There's a map for that: Google has created an interactive geographic resolution tracker, to remind you that you are not struggling alone.

One method for capturing "multiple exposure" photographs is to shoot a long exposure photograph of a scene with your camera pointed in different directions while the shutter is open. Photographer Nicolas Ruel uses this c...

A security flaw in the default configuration of a popular plug-in for WordPress has put blogs hosted on the platform at risk of data theft. The flaw, discovered by researcher Jason Donenfeld, is in W3 Total Cache (W3TC),...

Your 2013 New Year's Eve celebrations are probably over, but if you want to add some pizzazz to your next party 364 days from now, grab a set of these special champagne flutes that feature a laser-etched sparkling point ...

Just before Christmas we invited you, our readers, to tell us what you thought was the best camera of 2012. This year was one of the busiest that any of us can remember, and saw serious new products from all the major ca...

Give James Bond, Jack Bauer or Chuck Norris a spork, and they'll figure out a way to overpower bad guys with guns. What happens when you give a seasoned photographer a cheap digital camera designed for toddlers? That's w...

It's New Years. Balls will be dropped. Kisses will be kissed. Bubbly will be drunk drank drunken dranked consumed. But that's all normal. This year there's something different: a message from Mars, apparently. More

French photographer Serge Ramelli made this short 30-minute tutorial that teaches the basics of using Lightroom 4 to post-process your digital photographs. If you're just getting into using Lightroom and shooting in RAW,...

We've seen several reports over the last week about Intel's set-top box efforts, and an impending CES launch. According to GigaOM, some of those rumors simply aren't true. The site has confirmed with several sources at I...

TheNextWeb reports that at least one iOS app developer has already spotted references to the next iPhone and iOS 7 in their app logs. One developer showed us that Apple has been testing hardware relating to a new 'iPhone...

A new ad for the iPhone 5's "Do Not Disturb" feature may have Venus and Serena Williams going for it, but some iOS users are reporting that the feature locked up on them last night.

One universal silver lining to any abject failure is that it presents the opportunity to test out radically different ideas. President Obama has largely ignored his campaign promise to hold policy negotiations in public....

"There's no way that'll work." "Trust me, I'm a video editor... I don't think the render will be that bad." We're celebrating the end of 2012 by taking a look back at our first year of episodes for 90 Seconds on The Verg...