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Darpa has announced plans to build a new series of drones that can be used and operated on small ships, enabling the defense force to bring them to areas that they haven't been able to before.

Games aren’t using the full hardware potential, but it will come… eventually As software becomes more demanding, hardware needs to be upgraded in order for it to keep up. This is why as time passes, newer software up...

Apple has agreed to pay 318 million euros in Italy to settle an investigation that determined the iPhone and iPad maker failed to pay nearly triple that amount in corporate taxes in the country over a five year period, a...

Secondhand smoke is known for its bad effects on human health. In a new study, however, researchers have found that passive smoking can also cause serious health problems in pets, especially cats.

Just because the United States said it stopped spying on friendly foreign heads of state like Germany's Angela Merkel, doesn't mean that Uncle Sam actually has. Eavesdropping has actually continued and the list of target...

Shortly after reports began to spread that some hoverboards were starting fires and causing significant injuries to customers, Amazon and other retailers began pulling certain brands off of their shelves. Amazon even wen...

Over Christmas, we reported on Valve's major issues with their Steam store. As we all know, Steam gets pretty busy this time of year, due to their massive holiday sale. Unfortunately, this year it ended up being a comple...

A new way to test one of the basic principles underlying Einstein's theory of General Relativity using brief blasts of rare radio signals from space called Fast Radio Bursts is ten times, to one-hundred times better than...

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Here is our annual countdown of the "top five" scientific retractions in the last year, some serious, most comical.

Scientists have produced a powder of plutonium-238 for the first time in nearly 30 years in the United States, a milestone that they say sets the country on a path toward powering NASA's deep-space exploration and other ...

Sara Seager shares her thoughts on how far scientists have come in understanding exoplanets in 2015.

The virus, which is linked to brain damage in unborn babies, spread rapidly in the Americas in 2015. Global health agencies are hoping they can thwart it next year

We're not sure what's with the current obsession with taking selfies, but more often than not we come across stories where selfies have grave and unintended consequences. Take this most recent story for example. A group ...

A pair of Ph.D. candidates in Japan have developed a glove that lets wearers "feel" distant objects underwater, even without making physical contact. Dubbed "IrukaTact," the glove uses a combination of haptic feedback an...

(Reuters) - California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said on Tuesday that his office was working to verify claims that confidential voter information had been exposed on the Internet, the Sacramento Bee newspaper repor...

Passwords are used to protect our accounts, but as hacking technology has improved and with people less willing to come up with complex passwords that are less prone to being guessed, an alternative needs to be found. So...

The idea of Apple eventually moving away from the use of LCD screens to OLED screens isn't new. However in the past the rumors have suggested that either LG or Samsung could end up supplying the display panels to Apple. ...

It's scientific name is Etmopterus benchleyi, but when a shark is all-black, lurks in the depths of the ocean, and has the ability to glow, why limit yourself to the official nomenclature? Researchers have nicknamed this...

WASHINGTON — Former New York Gov. George Pataki is ending his longshot bid for the presidency, according to multiple reports. Pataki, a moderate Republican who led his state of New York during the Sept. 11 terrorist at...

EVERYONE remembers the Wright brothers, who made the first powered, heavier-than-air flights by human beings on a beach in North Carolina in 1903. Few, by contrast, remember Charlie Taylor, a mechanic at the brothers' bi...