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Skype has introduced a set of Marvel super-heroes emoticons to the chat messaging side of the service to coincide with the release of Captain America: The Winter Soldier on 28 March in the UK, 4 April in the US. Currentl...

Advocatus Diaboli writes "Aviation investigators and national security officials believe the plane flew for a total of five hours based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the Boeing Co. 777's en...

Follow every lap of the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship on your Android device The 2014 Formula 1 season is officially here! It may seem like only yesterday we were watching the 2013 Brazilian GP wrap up the season, bu...

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(Vanderbilt University) A brain-mapping study of patients with schizophrenia has found that areas associated with the ability to imitate are impaired, providing new support for the theory that deficits in this basic cogn...

With the success of The Simpsons: Tapped Out, it’s no surprise that Family Guy would also want to get in on the mobile action. First announced back in December, Fox and TinyCo have now released the first screenshots of...

In a court case bound to have far-reaching implications for U.S.-based photographers looking to use drones or other model aircraft for commercial shoots, National Transportation Safety Board Judge Patrick G. Geraghty has...

The program that made it incredibly easy to illegally stream the latest movies has shut down.

I always wanted to be artist. I pictured myself in a studio, complete with half finished artwork everywhere. I can’t say I was terribly artistic, but sometimes that can be developed with practice. What I can say is pra...

Target Corp. is acknowledging its security software picked up on suspicious activity after a massive cyberattack was launched, but it decided not to take immediate action.

South Korean artist Ji Yeo documents the ugly side of plastic surgery in her project, Beauty Recovery Room.     

  In 2006 Ms. Lockwood, an English teacher at Xavier High School, asked her students to write a letter to a famous author. She wanted them discuss the author’s work and ask for advice. Kurt Vonnegut (1922 – 2007) wa...

Like other carmakers, Mercedes-Benz has tested hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles, but hasn't committed to producing one due to lack of infrastructure. However, the company reportedly plans to launch one in 2017. The post No hu...

Platelet-rich plasma injections are significantly more effective and durable than cortisone injections for the treatment of severe chronic hip bursitis, according to new research. Chronic hip bursitis is a common yet dif...

While some Reddit threads offer thoughtful, constructive conversations about sex and gender, other forums remind us what a sexist, disappointing place the site can be. A new subreddit, r/FacebookCleavage (NSFW link), inv...

Everyone knows the feeling of being stuck in an awkward conversation with someone terrible at a party. But what if there was a way out? What if all you needed to do was subtly tap on the back of your phone, and pick up a...

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit the agency's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., on the afternoon of Monday, March 17, for demonstrations of and briefings on select aeronautics and space research ...

A new flexible robotic fish is the first soft robot with an onboard power source that can move its body at high speed     

Yesterday The Intercept posted a massive write up detailing an NSA project called TURBINE, which is said to involve the mass infection of millions of computers globally, as well the …

People who have suffered a stroke often experience severe fatigue. But doctors find it hard to help these patients as their experiences of fatigue may not necessarily be caused by physiological problems. New research sug...

Researchers report dramatic increases in prescriptions of opioid analgesics, such as Percocet, Vicodin, oxycodone and Dilaudid, during U.S. emergency department visits from 2001 to 2010. These findings were not explained...

Capitalizing on the ability of an organism to evolve in response to punishment from a hostile environment, scientists have coaxed the model bacterium Escherichia coli to dramatically resist ionizing radiation and, in the...