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The 'Zero Gravity Day' hoax currently spreading on the Internet was actually an April Fools' Day joke told in 1976.

Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has drawn some comparisons to Apple cofounder Steve Jobs and at least one SpaceX employee thinks those comparisons are warranted. An anonymous SpaceX engineer took to Q...

This week's best free apps center around your New Year's resolutions. The post The Best Free Apps for January 2, 2015 appeared first on AppleTell.

It’s known as HIP 85605, one of two stars that make up a binary in the Hercules constellation roughly 16 light years away. And if a recent research paper produced by Dr. Coryn Bailer-Jones of the Max Planck Institute f...

Two-thirds of a wide range of cancer types are largely rooted in bad genetic luck and not simply the results of traits passed down from parents or risk factors like smoking or diet, according to a new study. Random mutat...

The end of the year is a time for retrospection. It's also a great time to take a look back at your photo library and revisit the images you created over the past year. Whether it included a personal project, a memora...

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This DeLorean hovercraft is as cool as it is improbable. It's not just a movie set piece, either. Because if you're going to make a hovercraft out of a car, why not do it with some style? The post It may not be a time ma...

Print advertising is not dead, it just needs to adapt to survive, says BMW. The car manufacturer has teamed with London-based tech start-up Tamoco to add NFC chips to magazine ads in order for readers to interact with th...

MarkWhittington writes According to an article in Sputnik, a private Russian company called Lin Industrial has announced that it is capable of building a lunar base. However, according to information contained to a recen...

As we saw last year, Comcast has come up with an ingenious way to keep subscribers — namely, it makes unsubscribing to its services such a torturous and miserable process that you’ll eventually just cave in and decid...

Cesium 134 and cesium 137: The two isotopes that were released into the Pacific Ocean when an earthquake ruined the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on the eastern coast of Japan in 2011. The panic over the leakage ...

Though the hardware remained in Valve's garage all year, the software took some landmark steps toward usurping consoles in living rooms. The Steam client's epic 2014 paves the way for SteamOS and Steam Machines in 2015.

Prep for your weekend with some relaxation inspiration This owl and bunny are unlikely friends, but they bond over their mutual love of kicking back and cuddling. Maybe if they're feeling ambitious, the duo will binge-wa...

The tech world won't be content until we're wearing our computers and phones on our face, and Osterhout Design Group thinks it has the answer with its vaguely-Wayfarer-styled Smart Glasses headset. The consumer version o...

Some neat tricks with gravity could finally probe how it affects the quantum realm and allow us to devise a theory of everything, says Michael Brooks (full text available to subscribers)

This week, on our maiden episode of 2015: The story of an iOS developer who gave a gift so generous, it went viral; discovering new apps and podcasts on iTunes is an awful experience, but we know how to fix…

When it finally rolls out of the garage, Bloodhound SSC will hit a dizzying 1,000mph . But before it can do that, the team behind the vehicle needs to put it all together.

Austrian filmmaker Andreas Sulzer claims to have found Hitler's 'largest secret weapons research facility' following information contained in US intelligence reports describing a massive underground tunnel system excavat...

Boris Morukov, a Russian cosmonaut and doctor who led an extraordinary experiment in which volunteers simulated a flight to Mars while never leaving a Moscow car park, has died at 64, his scientific institute said Friday...

Microfiber is touted as a stain resistant fabric for furniture, but it can still stain and get dirty. Follow these simple steps to clean your microfiber couch in less than 15 minutes.

It's almost a year since the Bitcoin locker Mt. Gox went offline and took its digital currency with it. Now, a report in Japan's Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper claims that 99 percent of the bitcoins that went missing from Mt....