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SHASS prize honors cross-cultural fluency, a key to leadership in today's global world

To its many fans, graphene is a wonder substance set to transform the world. But could it also pollute the planet at the same time?

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Your tablet--whether it's an iPad, Android tablet, or a Microsoft Surface--is probably great on its own, but a few well-placed accessories can make it even better. There's a lot of useless ones out there, but let's make ...

So it turns out that America’s nuclear weapons system still uses the same 8-inch floppy disks that it used in the 1980s. Geek.com has a good rundown of why we shouldn’t be too concerned about this revelation and it b...

Mars Panorama – Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 613 in Out of this World The Curiosity rover looks like she’s concentrating hard on her tasks on Mars, and now you can zoom around and see what it would look like to...

Celebrate Star Wars Day with lightsaber pillows that let you duel without worrying about losing a limb! Crave's Bonnie Burton shows you how to make them.

Trailrunner7 (1100399) writes "It has been a running joke in the tech industry for years that the hacking scenes in movies are, well, a joke. Hackers in hoodies pushing a few keys and taking down the power grid or causin...

When a social network loves its users very, very much, it helps them get some of their privacy back. Mark Zuckerberg tried to convey an image of a beneficent Facebook at the company's f8 conference Wednesday, introducing...

"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" may be about a web-slinging mutant on Earth, but that doesn't mean there aren't a few great moments for space fans, too.

The Air Force Office of Scientific Research has selected the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) to lead a multidisciplinary effort that will merge research in classical and quantum physics and acce...

Groupon has tackled localized offers and sorted reservations, so now the deals site is looking to offer discounts for those who shop in bulk. The new effort -- appropriately called Basics -- allows you to stock up on ove...

An experimental pulse of water sent down the Colorado River has filled dry riverbeds in Mexico. A satellite image comparison shows how the water infusion has altered the river near the city of San Luis Río Colorado.

After lavishing much of its recent attention on Excel, PowerPoint and Word, Microsoft is ready to show OneNote some more love. The company has unveiled a big redesign of its iPhone app that brings simpler navigation and,...

Road warriors who carry a MacBook may already have Apple's world travel adapter kit, or even Twelve South's PlugBug for that extra USB port; but both products require swapping plugs for different regions. Konnext's OneAd...

(American Association for Cancer Research) Vitamin D deficiency was an indicator of aggressive prostate cancer and spread of the disease in European-American and African-American men who underwent their first prostate bi...

(Johns Hopkins Medicine) Johns Hopkins researchers say they have successfully used stem cells derived from human body fat to deliver biological treatments directly to the brains of mice with the most common and aggressiv...

In light of recent results from the "world's longest experiment", spanning more than 90 years, at the University of Queensland, a group of researchers from Trinity College Dublin explain the background behind their own p...

Scientists stay inspired in their sometimes tedious task of inspecting photographs taken in the Dark Energy Survey’s ambitious cataloging of one-eighth of the sky. Physicists working on the Dark Energy Survey can expec...

We can see it in our neighborhoods and in cities around the world: The future of transportation is arriving on two wheels. May is National Bike Month and, to celebrate, we're declaring it Bike Month on Gizmodo. Come alon...

As the number of people with type 2 diabetes continues to rise and its toll increases, scientists are scrambling to unravel the complex genetic and lifestyle factors behind the disease. A new study finds that African Ame...

(Phys.org) --Physicists in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University have made several important discoveries regarding the basic structure of mesons--subatomic particles long thought to be composed of one q...