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The "Crock-Pot Smart Slow Cooker enabled with WeMo" is a mouthful, to be sure - but it'll also fill your mouth with delicious, digitally controlled cooking excellence. Controlled wirelessly using the WeMo app, this Crock...

Some video gamers hear sound effects like screams and explosions long after they have stopped playing, a new study finds.

Give your guests a royal serve of ice-cream next time you throw a party by using this unusually designed Ice Queen Scoop. Having drawn its inspiration from the Queen herself, this scoop can truly bring humor on the party...

The 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe is the lightest vehicle in its class. How Cadillac made that happen is fascinating.

The U.S. Air Force's rapid response military space office will ask the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Lincoln Laboratory to design and build a satellite to bridge a potential gap in on-orbit space surveillance c...

A new start-up called Manservants lets women rent out handsome dudes to pour champagne, open doors and more.

This year's football season is set to begin in September, and for the first time 17 National Football League stadiums will employ radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology to better track how players move on the f...

NASA plans to make oxygen — a key ingredient of rocket fuel — on Mars early next decade.

Other big technology companies are watching the case, which Microsoft said it would appeal, as a potential threat to their plans to offer cloud computing overseas.

Walter Leica, a small company known for their specialized lineup for Leica's M-series cameras, has released an interesting little piece of gear. It's called the Walter Contrast Lens and it's a little, gold-toned eyepiece...

If there is one particular puzzle that has continued to enthrall little ones over the years, it would definitely be the Rubik's Cube, where there are moments when you would feel so frustrated at solving the last line of ...

Sticker shock at the gas pump could soon be a thing of the past thanks to research being conducted by UT and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

(Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Finding could allow ultrafast switching of conduction, and possibly lead to new broadband light sensors.

New submitter IMissAlexChilton (3748631) writes Frank Malina masterfully led the World War II effort to build U.S. rockets for jet-assisted takeoff and guided missiles. As described in IEEE Spectrum, Malina's motley crew...

Scientists have rendered a once-furry mouse transparent, its brain, guts and all. Here's a look at the beauty beneath the rodent's skin.

Reddit user Unidan, known off of the Internet as biologist Ben Eisenkop, has been shadowbanned from the site due to vote manipulation. Reddit administrators discovered that Eisenkop maintained five side accounts, which h...

While global happiness research tends to focus on economic and sociological factors, one study says genes close to the makeup of Denmark's DNA up your chance at bliss.

A new survey shows more than 75 percent of Americans would consider purchasing a vehicle that could drive itself.

A family of long-legged shorebirds adopted a fuzzy baby duckling in California's San Francisco Bay.

Comedian uses video service to call out hecklers at his shows.          

(Princeton University) Eight conservation biologists from various organizations and institutions, including Princeton University, found that shale-gas extraction in the United States has vastly outpaced scientists' under...

In a weirdly serious bit of hair research, engineers have figured out how to change hair color without an ounce of hair dye. The only catch? You need a focused ion beam.