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Purple bacteria are among Earth's oldest organisms, and among its most efficient in turning sunlight into usable chemical energy. Now, a key to their light-harvesting prowess has been explained through a detailed structu...

Google has brought the arcade right to your image search window with its newest celebratory Easter egg game. It's the 37th birthday of the classic Atari game Breakout, and if you type "Atari Breakout" as a Google image s...

Are you currently in a lull, wondering how come no one ever figured a way to have weekly episodes of The Walking Dead without having to have a season stop and leaving us viewers hanging for a few months before

Google is famous for the Easter eggs buried in its products. This might be one of the most entertaining we've seen in while. Head over to Google Image Search and punch in a query for "atari breakout"--or just click this ...

Editor's note: This guest post is written by Louisa Preston, an Astrobiologist and Planetary Geologist. She is a TED Fellow, and Postdoctoral Research Associate at The Open University, UK. In the last century humanity ha...

One thing is certain, ask a dozen people the best way to brew the perfect cup of coffee and you'll get a dozen answers. Last week, we asked you which you thought was the best , and then we examined the five best coffee m...

Categories: Inspiration Walkthroughs Tags: agecollectingageschamonixthurstonrattuecollectingcollectionportraitsportraiturewomen A trendy project in the photo world these days is collecting portraits of people of differen...

In last week's Hacker Challenge, we asked you to share your best speaker hack . We received some great entries, but the winning hack shows us how to build a waterproof canister speaker.

Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer has been placed in "administrative segregation," prison shorthand for solitary confinement for "investigative purposes." Supporters believe he was locked down and given no Internet access becaus...

Sure, Google I/O may not focus on new products, but it might just take a moment to unveil the firm's take on music streaming. According to The Verge, Mountain View has inked licensing deals with Universal Music Group and...

Rules have come into force today (14) to address consumer issues related to e-commerce in Brazil, in what is the first set of guidelines for any business wanting to sell online in the country.

By Tia Ghose LiveScience Dogs are more than man's best friend: They may be partners in humans' evolutionary journey, according to a new study.The study shows that dogs split from gray wolves about 32,000 years ago, and t...

Microsoft plans to make its first update to Windows 8, codenamed Blue, free to existing Windows 8 users, company officials have confirmed.

The U.S. Department of Justice has subpoenaed the Associated Press's telephone records. How much data will officials have access to? Yesterday the Associated Press reported that the U.S. Department of Justice used subpoe...

It's Patch Tuesday again, and Microsoft has plenty to keep IT admins and users busy this month. Microsoft has released ten new security bulletins for May, but the two that should get the most attention and the highest pr...

A new feature released Tuesday from children's app maker Kidaptive lets parents track the progress of what their children are learning inside the company's first story and game application. Leo's Pad has been out for a y...

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/14/2013 02:19 PM EDT on LiveScience Worried that everyone else is doing something cool without you? You may...

If you're a believer in science, you're probably at least vaguely aware that prevailing theories posit that the birds of today are distant relatives to the dinosaurs that died off millions of years ago.

Wireless use along the US-Canada border can be problematic: when there isn't direct interference, there's sometimes a fight over which devices get dibs on given frequencies. Don't worry that the countries will rekindle t...

Google was once a humble startup with a big dream--to be the David that takes down Microsoft's Goliath. Google has become a tech force to be reckoned with, challenging Microsoft in almost every area including Web search,...

Cydia, a platform commonly thought of as the alternative app store for jailbroken iPhones and iPads, has just today arrived on Android of all places. Though Android is by its nature more open and customizable than Apple'...

The new Nokia Lumia 928 and 925 devices are the best Windows Phone devices available, but this also makes it painfully clear that Nokia is being held back by Microsoft's mobile platform.