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Prosthetic arm from the inventor of the Segway gets FDA approval for sale in the United States. The robotic arm may help restore the ability to perform complex tasks for some amputees.

Sick penguins, Pinocchio the dinosaur, and so many more cool science stories this week!

WASHINGTON, D.C. – It’s been nearly three years since a 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattled through Washington, D.C., structurally damaging the iconic Washington Monument. It reopens on Monday to the public, marking a c...

Google shows off the Trekker backpack technology that allows it to map street views off the beaten path.

A Texas high school student agrees with his art teacher that if he can get 15,000 retweets, his whole class can skip their final exams. The school is not impressed.

The game is called "Drowning in Problems". Takes about 10 minutes to play through. Interesting game mechanic.∞ Read this on The Loop

Netflix is continuing its push into exclusive documentaries with three new titles for this summer and fall, according to Deadline. The first, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, tells the story of Oregon's short-lived tea...

Uncanny balls of light are flying around a Norwegian valley. After three decades of detective work, we could be close to solving the mystery (full text available to subscribers)

 Autodesk is known primarily for enterprise software. It's a great company in a lucrative space, but not exactly who you might expect to have an especially fun office space. But for months now, people have been telling ...

A recent study found that the musky rat-kangaroo -- the tiniest kangaroo species on Earth -- can only survive in tropical rainforests, habitats that some scientists say are threatened by global warming.

The guys from One Minute Science are back with a particularly grim explainer this weekend: Why just about every cubic foot of ocean is embedded with tiny bits of plastic. You've heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, ...

ClownP (1315157) writes in with this story about a hacker who did some of his work while aboard a nuclear aircraft carrier. " A former sailor assigned to a US nuclear aircraft carrier and another man have been charged wi...

A star born from the same cloud of gas and dust as the sun was recently discovered, and researchers say the "solar sibling" could host life-supporting planets. According to a new study from the University of Texas at Aus...

A remote-controlled research sub exploring some of the deepest depths of the Pacific Ocean has been lost.

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An anonymous reader writes "An article by David Cole at the NY Review of Books lays out why we should care as much about the collection of metadata as we do about the collection of the data itself. At a recent debate, Ge...

Iran claimed on Sunday that it has successfully recreated an American spy drone allegedly captured in 2011. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard showed off the copy of the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel drone during a ceremo...

​Microsoft's Cortana may be younger than counterparts such as Google Now and Apple's Siri, but the virtual assistant already stands out thanks to some unique features. One prime example is Notebook, which the service u...

[From In-Car Tech] The Ford F-150 is the only (CNG)-ready half-ton in America, and now Ford is making a lot of noise about fleets ordering its CNG trucks to reduce fuel costs.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is testing out some big changes for Gmail. Some of the changes are: the sidebar has been replaced with a slide-in pane, the 'compose' button has been moved, and there's a new feature ca...

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Thanks to the the FAA's recent decision to allow civilian drones into public airspace, the skies above us could soon be swarming with helpful robo-fliers. To that end, Parrot's newest model acts as a personal aerial surv...