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Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. Up until now, Tesla has blazed a trail in the electric vehicle market -- but t...

High resolution 360-degree images and video shots are about to fill up your digital library if you start using the Ricoh Theta S. This is one of the coolest 360-degree spherical digital cameras which enables you to take ...

Heart surgeries could be so much safer if surgeons can see and feel an actual representation of the patient's organ before the procedure itself. A system developed by a group of researchers from MIT and Boston Children's...

This week on The After Math, Cablevision sells for buku bucks, AT&T gets generous with its data allowances and some sucker is probably going to spend $130,000 on a TV he won't be able to use until its become obsolete. Be...

Halfway through a year in space, astronaut Scott Kelly woke up to this amazing view.

I suppose that not many of us give thought to how our mugs should be like whenever we go to work. Chances are, we might even be using the same old mug that has followed us through the last five jobs, across three differe...

You knew that CERN was big on experimentation when it built the Large Hadron Collider, but it just took that curiosity in a strange, fascinating new direction. ATLAS physicist James Beacham has kicked off Ex/Noise/CERN, ...

Internet Comedians Above Average have discovered the secret behind why each of Pixar's films are a tearjerker: a cutting edge Sad lab that looks into all the best ways to make people cry.

It's very poetic to talk about a tree of life, where every species can trace its roots, but actually illustrating this tree is no mean feat when Earth has been home to at least 2.3 million known species. However, scienti...

Influential tweeter Richard Dawkins, whose intellectual rigor never ceases to amaze, makes the very good, necessary, and important point that, in claiming his reassembled clock as an "invention," Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-ye...

AVG has updated its privacy policy's language, and in the amended document, the security firm admits that it can "make money from [its] free offerings with non-personal data." These "non-personal" info include your devic...

It's been a hot, thirsty, fire-ridden summer out West. But to really understand the severity of the drought, we need to look beneath the parched vegetation and deep into the ground. Spoilers: It's looking awfully dry dow...

The hidden string pulling of global currency markets.

The countries are in talks to prohibit first strikes against critical infrastructure, according to The New York Times. The negotiations could lead to first-ever arms-control deal for cyberspace.

Technically Incorrect: A UK bar is heavily fined after serving a woman a very unsafe science-based drink.

To call garbage collection an inglorious job would be an understatement -- it typically involves early mornings, monotony and (of course) lots of smelly trash. It's the perfect sort of job for a robot, don't you think? V...

Ever since the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One were released back in 2013 Sony hasn’t had to cut the price of its console, at least in the West, in order to move units. Its console has actually outperformed the Xbox One in ...

Microsoft's original Band is many things to many people, but "fashion item" typically isn't one of them -- it looks less like a fitness device and more like a court-ordered probation tracker. You probably won't say that ...

Hundreds of thousands of olive ridley sea turtles came ashore on Ostional Beach to lay their eggs, but thousands of tourists were already there, doing nearly everything you're not supposed to do around a threatened speci...

The leading drone industry group, the FAA and some law enforcement groups have spoken out against equipping the unmanned devices with weapons.

Alas, you're unlikely to soar over Pluto's alien landscape any time soon -- not when it's billions of miles away. However, NASA has whipped up an aerial tour that will give you an inkling of what it might be like. The si...

Going retro does seem to be a route that is worth taking. After all, you can never quite tell as to when a particular sense of fashion is going to come back in vogue. Well, Thonet & Vander, the German audio company which...