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One way to get more out of your speedlites is to raise the ISO. Another is to control the light output more.

Have you ever noticed how, in every photo of an astronaut using camera gear in the International Space Station, there’s pretty much never a tripod or monopod or special mount in sight? They’re always just handholding...

Chinese company Dexta Robotics set out to develop a hand motion-capturing device last year, but instead of creating a glove like everybody else, they designed an impressively affordable exoskeleton. This device called De...

Even if you can't afford a swanky Equinox membership but can't stand packing in among the masses at 24 Hour Fitness, you've got no excuse for letting your body go to pot over the winter. With these websites at your dispo...

There's an entire world of oddball inventions floating around the Internet. Exhibit A: the Chork, a combination chopstick/fork Some of these inventions are hybrids of familiar, everyday objects, while others don't seem t...

Sonar devices reveal objects below the surface by directing sound waves into the ocean and recording the sound waves reflected back.

Deciding, perhaps, that Facebook will bring him closer to the masses, the famed physicist signs up and shares a post that says being curious is vital in today's world.

Not all keyboards are created equal, where some of them are a whole lot more advanced than the rest. Well, I cannot vouch enough for a good keyboard if you happen to be involved in a line of work where there is plenty of...

SAN FRANCISCO — Mo'ne Davis wowed the baseball universe at at the Little League World Series this summer. Now she's drawn cheers at the MLB World Series, too Davis, the 13-year-old girl whose fastball dominated hitters...

Mystery of the month: What do Russian cannabis and stainless steel cookware have to do with Ebola?

Innovation in the world of food photography has been a long time coming, and I wouldn't mind a little shake up since my Instagram feed is completely full of it. An upcoming iOS app releasing next month called 3DAround wi...

Uber's fledgling service in China will face tough competition from taxi-hailing company Kuaidi, which already boasts more than 150 million riders in 350 cities.

Scientists have successfully tested on mice engineered stem cells that can make and secrete toxins that can kill brain cancer cells. The stem cells are immune to the toxins, which prevent cancer cells from creating prote...

DONETSK, Ukraine –- Ukrainians rushed to the polls on Sunday in historic elections in which they ushered in a pro-Western parliament that, for the first time ever, will not include the Communist Party, exit polls indic...

China has launched its first round-trip mission to the moon with a robotic spacecraft, a mission that will pave the way for the country's planned lunar sample-return program.

Orbital Sciences Corporation's unmanned Cygnus cargo ship is preparing to launch to the International Space Station Monday, aiming to carry some 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) of materials for space experiments.

On Monday, Oct. 27, a private Antares rocket built by the commercial spaceflight company Orbital Sciences will launch the Orb-3 cargo mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Here's how to see it in the sky f...

Lasers - devices that deliver beams of highly organized light - are so deeply integrated into modern technology that their basic operations would seem well understood. CD players, medical diagnostics and military surveil...

Astronomers at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) have observed the expanding thermonuclear fireball from a nova that erupted last year in the constellation Delphinus with unp...

Tractor beams, ebola and King Tut's health -- the coolest Science this week!

Nina Pham, a nurse once diagnosed with Ebola, has now been declared free of the disease, and released from the hospital.

Humans apparently took to the mountains of Peru 900 years earlier than previously documented, U.S., Canadian and German researchers reported. An archeological team found signs of human ice age habitation in the southern ...