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Comet Lovejoy soars in these stunning images recently sent to SPACE.com by an avid astrophotographer.

Earlier in the week, we did report that Windows 8 Threshold might see the return of the proper Start menu experience, but that remains a rumor even until now. Of course, until something official comes out, we are stuck w...

What do you want for Christmas? I want a razor sharp wrist/arm blade that’s shaped like a scorpion with a pointy sharp death tail. Can I have it? Can I have it mom? Please? No… You’ll…

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New findings from a long-running study of nearly 1300 rural children by UNC's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) reveal that parenting deteriorates when families face a number of risk factors at once. ...

Google has acquired robotics engineering company Boston Dynamics, best known for its line of quadrupeds with funny gaits and often mind-blowing capabilities. Products that the firm has demonstrated in recent years incl...

Bitcoin has been in the news a ton and it's possible to mine it on your Mac. But unless you purchase dedicated mining hardware (which is expensive) Bitcoin mining isn't cost-effective. A better choice is Litecoin.

Apple seeded the second beta of iOS 7.1 to developers today, and Cult of Mac has put together a handy collection of GIFs showing the most significant changes we can expect on our devices in the coming weeks. On the face ...

Chinese state media say China has successfully landed a space probe on the moon, in the first lunar "soft landing" in nearly four decades....

Scientists snap the clearest picture yet of the immune system in action.

Co-authored with Barbara Prainsack of the Department of Social Science, Health and Medicine, King's College London, UK Recent action by the FDA against the California-based personal genomics company 23andMe has sparked i...

Every time we decide to post something about Instagram, we go through a bit of an internal dilemma. On the one hand, it’s the most popular photo sharing app in the world, and many photographers have used it to great ef...

Microsoft hopes its first wave of original TV programming for Xbox One will be out in early 2014, the company's president of entertainment and digital, Nancy Tellem, tells Variety. At the latest, Redmond is hoping to hav...

iOS 7 has ushered in a new age of design for third-party Twitter apps. Before Jony Ive’s monumental redesign of iOS was introduced over the summer, apps capitalized on making themselves stand out with a distinct design...

As joyous as it may seem, Christmas is insanely stressful, especially when it comes to presents — not deciding what you'll buy others, but rather what you should write on your own holiday wishlist Gamers have an especi...

How do you represent your team when you can't find decent NFL designs? You put together a couple different brands to create your own custom iPhone case. Here, I represent my fellow 12s by customizing my iPhone 5 skin col...

The Computer History Museum hosted an evening of tributes to technology legend Doug Engelbart.

China has gone to the moon, reports state news agency Xinhua. On Dec. 14, the country announced it completed a soft landing of its lunar probe, Chang'e 3, and China joins the United States and the former Soviet Union as ...

What do you like to do in your free time? Play boardgames? Watch Netflix? Cook quinoa? These are all perfectly normal ways to while away your days--but German hobbyist Patrick Priebe builds laser guns. This is a perfectl...

Clemson University biological sciences student Meghan Stelly and her father, Alabama cardiovascular surgeon Terry Stelly, investigated a biomedical application following a coronary artery bypass surgery and found that th...

Pacemaker surgery typically requires a doctor to make an incision above a patient’s heart, dig a cavity into which they can implant the heartbeat-regulating device, and then connect the pulse generator to wires deliver...

In a battle of technology titans for the right to lease a historic NASA launch pad in Florida, SpaceX has beat out competitor Blue Origin, the US space agency said Friday.