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The D5500 is Nikon's first DSLR camera to include a touchscreen. It's hardly a new idea — Canon's EOS Rebel T4i was the first DSLR to have one and that came out in 2012. Nikon's newest camera is the company dragging i...

Some of the biggest names in tech are throwing their headsets into the virtual-reality ring: here's what's coming over the next year.

Three men — two Vietnamese citizens and one Canadian — have been indicted in what federal officials are calling "one of the largest reported data breaches in U.S. history." The trio, one of which has pleaded guilty, ...

Remember the trove of bitcoins nabbed from the illicit underground market Silk Road? The US Marshals have been slowly auctioning them off in batches, something we've been reporting on over past months. The end of this we...

Nearly six months after winning high-profile NASA contracts, the two companies developing commercial crew transportation systems are still in some sense competing with each other, playing up their strengths and highlight...

A group of body-image activists are circulating an online petition that asks Facebook to remove a "feeling fat" status and emoji from status-update options. The Change.org petition has amassed more than 14,000 signatures...

The Feb. 27 short circuit that has halted some of the science work by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, apparently originated in the robot's rock-boring drill, space agency officials announced Friday (March 6).

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Yesterday, a patent from Google was published, detailing lots of ideas from the company about connecting your smart home. It looks like the company wants to expand to door locks, door knobs, and more. The post Google's n...

On March 9, Apple is set to fill in the missing details on its new Watch line, which it first unveiled back in September. Here's a look at the most pressing questions we have.

ISIS has recently taken aim at archaeological ruins and relics in attacks that international leaders say amount to a "war crime."

In a blast from the space-age past, the National Archives released an awesomely retro 1965 advertisement for NASA's traveling outreach program, the Spacemobile.

From an amazing photo of Comet Lovejoy captured by a dark energy camera to Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, don't miss these amazing space images of the week for March 7, 2015.

Buttock augmentation and nonsurgical fat removal are becoming increasingly popular, new data suggests.

As people set their clocks forward an hour for daylight saving time this Sunday (March 8), they may also want to take extra care of their heart. That's because people tend to have more heart attacks on the Monday followi...

Dawn's approach and trajectory as it begins its orbital "dance" with Ceres. As you watch, note the timeline at upper right. Dawn made it! After a 14-month tour of the asteroid Vesta and 2 1/2 years en route to Ceres, the...

Our current cosmological standard model assumes that general relativity and the standard model of particle physics have been a good description of the basic physics of the universe throughout its history. It assumes that...

A century ago this year, a young Swiss physicist, who had already revolutionized physics with discoveries about the relationship between space and time, developed a radical new understanding of gravity.

On March 3, 1915, Congress created the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), the organization from which NASA would be created from in 1958. To mark the 100 year anniversary the Smithsonian Institution's Na...

In his testimony before Congress during the first week of March, NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden outlined the return on investment legislators can expect from the $18.5 billion dollars proposed for the agency under Pre...

Although an Italian neurosurgeon recently boasted that he plans to conduct a human head transplant within two years, experts say this proposal is scientifically and ethically absurd.

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