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Rattlesnakes are found throughout North and South America. Their distinctive rattle warns intruders to stay away!

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- NASA could have prevented last summer's near-drowning of a spacewalking astronaut at the International Space Station, an investigation panel concluded Wednesday. Italian astronaut Luca Parmit...

AWeber Communications, a company that provides email marketing and auto-response software, has been taken offline by hackers. On Monday at 1:52 p.m. EST, AWeber tweeted that it was investigating an "unscheduled site inte...

  Nina Geometrieva is a graphic designer and illustrator from Skopje, Macedonia. In her latest project on Behance entitled Colorgasm, Nina challenges viewers to scroll down her massive 725 x 24507 pixel image and experi...

A peanut-shaped 1300 foot-long asteroid, named 2006 DP14, flew about 1.5 million miles away from Earth on February 10th, 2014. NASA scientists used the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. to take radar images...

Microsoft is encouraging users to try its Bing and OneDrive services by offering them 100 GB of free cloud storage for one year.     

The Nokia Lumia 620, a smartphone which was announced nearly two years ago, is not quite forgotten just yet. In fact, we are more than pleased to announce that the Nokia Lumia 620 too, will be on the receiving end of the...

Microsoft has recently rolled out its first service pack for Office 2013, where you will be able to download it here in x86 as well as x64 versions. Of course, depending on which particular flavor that you decide to down...

Beating cancer is all about early detection, and new research is another step forward in catching the disease early. A team of chemists is reporting a new way to detect just a handful of lurking tumor cells, which can be...

The prospect of the Panasonic Lumix TZ60 (or ZS40 for our American readers) excited us when we first saw it because it's the latest in the line of what we would consider the very best of the all-round "travel zoom" compa...

The Hawthorn is the second model from Melbourne Watch Company, a new brand of boutique mechanical watches from Australia. The Hawthorn aims to "bridge the gap" between sports and dress styles and features the robust Miyo...

WhatsApp has shown that having a hugely popular mobile messaging app can be very lucrative and now BlackBerry is looking to cash in on its own widely used cross-platform BlackBerry Messenger service. We already know that...

Hey Mister Man, what are you doing filming us with that camera over there. Hey Mister Man, I don't appreciate you tempting me with food to trick me into dancing like a monkey. Hey Mister Man, that's it, I'm stealing your...

Sony Electronics has announced it will soon close two-thirds of its retail locations across the US. The Japanese-based consumer electronics company has 31 stores in the US, but 20 of them are now shutting down to maintai...

The Messages app is the native instant messaging client for OS X which supports everything from iMessage, Facebook chat, to AIM. Though users have long been able to block senders from AIM and Facebook, the iMessage proto...

The identification of fakes and forgeries is a basic issue that has always raised controversy. This is unsurprising, of course-the enormous sums garnered by top paintings would turn to dust as soon as a question as to th...

It's been 12 years since the horrifying tragedy that occurred on September 11, 2001, and Americans are just now learning the extent to which our government has tightened its grip on our privacy and communications. With t...

Debuting at Mobile World Congress and arriving in the U.S. later in 2014, the V@Home TV Gateway DVR lets you watch and record live TV on multiple devices at once.

This year we're covering the Barcelona Mobile World Congress a little differently. Each day there will be one liveblog post here on Cult of Mac and one on Cult of Android. Instead of gathering up press releases and writi...

In order to run a blood test, one would need to have sufficient amount of fresh blood. The thing is, what happens when one is unable to draw enough blood, or the circumstances do not permit it? A certain Elizabeth Holmes...

South Africa has been financing domestic rainwater harvesting tanks in informal low-income settlements and rural areas in five of that nation's nine provinces. But pathogens inhabit such harvested rainwater, potentially ...

Pay-for-performance has become a major component of health reforms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other affluent countries. Although the approach has also become popular in the developing world, there has ...