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Researchers shipped eight colonies of ants to the International Space Station to study their search behavior in microgravity.

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Apple Watch won't ship until April 24th, but it just earned a Red Dot: Best of the Best, one of the most prestigious awards in the design world. There were 4,928 entries into this year's awards-1,240 of them won awards, ...

The GoBQ grill is made of fabric, so it folds up to fit in your backpack and only weighs eight pounds. Its heat-resistant fabric cools down quickly, making on-the-go grilling a breeze. The post Grill anywhere: Soft silic...

Google Maps makes it easy to pan, zoom and search the world--and now it can do the same for the deep recesses of the human body, too.

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology has built a new needle-like robot that can descend through ice-fields to explore the sea floor beneath --and this footage from Antarctica is the first footag...

Here's a cover from the 1994 Super Nintendo game Final Fantasy VI, performed by vocalist Jillian Aversa and produced to high heaven. The post Final Fantasy Soundtrack Covers Are Getting Ridiculous appeared first on WIRED...

Dear Lifehacker, I'm interested in getting a job as a programmer, but I don't have any formal training. I heard boot camps can get me into a job in just a couple of months. They seem intense and expensive, though. Are th...

Giving new meaning to the term "sonic boom," University of Illinois chemists have used sound to trigger microscopic explosions.

Given that Microsoft has consolidated so many other parts of how it operates lately, word that it's discontinuing the new Kinect sensor for Windows shouldn't be much of a surprise. From here on out, Redmond will no longe...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a set of wispy, goblin-green objects that are the ephemeral ghosts of quasars that flickered to life and then faded....

The 2011 Japan tsunami released thousands of tons of ozone-destroying chemicals and greenhouse gases into the air.

[From GamerTell] There are tons of Five Nights at Freddy's knock-offs, but these three are great if you want something that isn't very scary.

French drone manufacturer Sy​sveo has announced that it is developing a unique, software-based visualization system for UAVs that will provide pilots an augmented reality view -- specifically, a 3D image -- atop the ex...

The Federal Aviation Administration has received over 2,000 comments on its proposed rules for commercial drone flights in the U.S. The 2,000th comment was received Wednesday and hundreds more are likely to be filed befo...

Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning is officially on Twitter...kind of. Since opening on Friday, Manning's Twitter account has already attracted more than 18,000 followers at the time of this writing. Manning's profi...

Human missions to Mars are possible in the 2030s without significant increases to NASA's current budget, according to an internal Jet Propulsion Laboratory study discussed at a recent closed-door workshop. The post JPL S...

It's already been a while since Apple introduced the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, so that means it's time to look toward the future and speculate about what the company might have in store for the next iPhone. Will the next-gene...

See what's up in the night sky for April 2015, including stargazing events and the moon's phases, in this Space.com gallery courtesy of Starry Night Software.

She may look beautiful, but Earth is in danger.  The planet just had its warmest winter on record, which comes on the heels of its warmest year. But data shows that the record-warm year of 2014 was no fluke. In fact, ...

While you probably use your iPad every day for web browsing and media consumption, are you really using it to its full potential? Five years after the first iPad went on sale on April 3, 2010, we have five suggestions fo...

Maysak, a charmingly-named Cat-5 super typhoon that only sounds a bit like the Norse god of destruction, is churning its way through the Pacific at the moment. And, as always, mankind is keeping a very careful eye on thi...