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A key riddle in cosmology may be answered by the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson--now a leading contender for the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics on October 8. [More] --

Launch Chrome in Windows 8 and you won't see much that's different compared to other desktop releases, even in the Metro-like mode. That may change soon. Google's has posted a Dev Channel version of its browser whose Win...

(European College of Neuropsychopharmacology) Depression is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide. New research suggests that targeting the glutamergic system may represent an exciting new avenue for treating...

Techdirt has an interesting followup on the arrest and indictment of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, in connection to which the FBI seized 26,000 or so Bitcoins. From the Techdirt piece: "However, in the criminal compla...

We know you've got questions, and if you're brave enough to ask the world for answers, then here's the outlet to do so. This week's Ask Engadget inquiry is from Andrew, who wants to print all the things, you know what we...

Not only are government researchers barred from their own labs during the government shutdown, but they cannot travel anywhere else, either. [More] --

Sometimes I wonder where the Internet was when I needed it in 1973. Like many of my nerd and geek compatriots, I was the victim of schoolyard bullying. There was no social media or personal computers back then, so bullie...

Amid all the doubt and uncertainty surrounding the federal government shutdown, there’s at least one piece of good news this week: NASA’s plans to send a probe to Mars on Nov. 18 are figuratively cleared for liftoff....

Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano shares a lot of fantastic photos taken from his privileged position 260 miles up aboard the Space Station, orbiting the planet 16 times a day. This is his latest, a stunning view of night...

The groundbreaking science fiction novel Neuromancer has inspired a new experiment that pairs the iPhone with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset to offer a unique new gaming experience. Created by Greg Borenstein, t...

Tick tock. Time is passing by. Life is spinning madly on. It's all overwhelming, but what if you had a watch to tell you the exact seconds, minutes, days and years left in your life? Tikker is a digital wristwatch that h...

We hope everyone reading this spends at least a little bit of time on the forums.  Spend enough time there and you're sure to see the Moderators hanging around threads, helping members and just generally nerding about ...

Not even a year after the Neo Geo X's rocky road to market, creator SNK is pulling the plug. The firm has severed ties with manufacturer / distributor Tommo, ordering it to "immediately cease any and all manufacturing, d...

Not to be outdone by the sheer magnitude of the NSA's PRISM program, Russia's FSB security service is preparing to monitor every single communication made by competitors and spectators alike during the 2014 winter games ...

Weblink works around bugs in in-car tech by putting smartphone app in charge.     

I watched The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air from a young age. I was so young that my hands weren't strong enough to turn the knobs of my parents' retro TV. I'm totally serious. I had to have someone turn on the TV and change t...

Geneva, 6 October 2013. In a paper published today in the journal Nature (://dx.doi.org/, DOI number 10.1038/nature12663), the CLOUD experiment at CERN* reports a major advance towards solving a long-standing enigma in c...

People have instagrammed and live tweeted from pretty much everywhere. The peak of a mountain, the birth of a baby, the toilet. Users don't seem to crave permission. But somehow the idea for a social media-themed hotel k...

This year's CEATEC was a bit quieter than previous years, perhaps due to the lack of brand new consumer products. Fortunately, the show managed to substitute in plenty of future tech demos, while Nissan made more progres...

They said it couldn’t be done. But it has! MIT researchers recently managed to create self-assembling modular robots. The researchers even released a video demonstrating their success According to MIT, back in 2011, MI...

Ah the second anniversary of someone's death. The biography is a bestseller. The movie with Ashton Kutcher is out. The mourning process is on its natural course. But one more thing has to happen: new action figures. Sure...