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There I was, impaled by an alien. I was carefully walking around a space station, with nothing more than my (admittedly dim) wits and a motion tracker, watching a large, terrifying alien stamp about. My only direction wa...

Jason Koebler writes: For those of us without a green thumb, growing even the most hardy plants in perfect conditions can seem impossible. How about trying to grow plants on a meteorite? Well, at least one scientist is d...

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Images of a proposed faster-than-light ship with a 'Star Trek' look have become an Internet sensation. The design was created in collaboration with NASA scientists.

Two scientists from the University of Toronto have figured out a way to create cheaper, lighter and more flexible solar cells, CNET reports, which could allow more users in the future to harness energy directly from the ...

The spinning disk below is a little seizure inducing but a lot of fun because not everyone sees the same color when it spins. Some people see green, others see yellow, a few see red while some see no color at all.

Public wireless charging stations for mobile devices may not have caught on in earnest, but what the heck -- Starbucks is giving it a go. Following a trial run, the coffee giant (and its sister brand Teavana) has started...

CSAIL wireless technology that measures heart rate and breathing through walls has applications for personal health, baby monitors, and law enforcement.

It looks like the rumors were true: Amazon has just launched Amazon Prime Music with a million-plus songs and unlimited streaming with no ads. As we noted earlier, the service is free to Prime members who've paid $79 to ...

Test of saucer-shaped reentry vehicle for Mars missions is postponed because of weather, NASA says. Device may someday put astronauts on the surface of Mars.

 True&Co, the e-commerce startup that aims to bring us the perfect fitting bra, took data from a million boobs to build its own line of intimates — in an effort to truly support your bust. The company, which formally ...

The father of modern taxonomy beats Shakespeare, Jesus and Napoleon as the most influential person in history, according to Wikipedia PageRank figures.

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but they're also prized by oil drillers, road crews and experimental physicists for their unparalleled ability to bore, grind and cut. Now scientists have synthesized microscopic dia...

A new NASA spacecraft is about to embark on a 2-year mission to learn about how carbon dioxide -- a heat-trapping gas driving climate change -- cycles through the Earth's atmosphere.

For some cigarette smokers, strategies to aid quitting work well, while for many others no method seems to work. Researchers have now identified an aspect of brain activity that helps to predict the effectiveness of a re...

Facebook will use Web browsing history to offer better targeted ads, but it will also allow users to opt out of ad tracking, and control which ads they see. The new policy doesn't comply with the Web browser's do-not-tra...

KentuckyFC (1144503) writes Security researchers in Germany have demonstrated an entirely new way to attack computer networks and steal information without anybody knowing. The new medium of attack is ultrasonic sound. I...

"Phage hunts" may deliver ethanol industry's new weapons against problem bacteria.

Price: $18 Poketti Plushies with a Pocket are cute & functional plush animal pillows with a useful back pocket to hold your phone, notebook, tv remote, eyeglasses -- or anything you need to find quickly in the morning. P...

A U.S. federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officials need to have a warrant to access phone location data from cellular carriers. The ruling, which is the first of its kind in the U.S., raises the ...

The Panasonic FZ1000 sports, among other things, a Leica lens and 4K video.

Starbucks plans to install Powermat's wireless charging stations at its coffee stores across the US. After a small pilot run with these "Powermat Spots" -- small circles that are seamlessly implanted in tables and counte...