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Today: Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) Zero Robotics Dry Run: Kelly and Kornienko set up SPHERES hardware and executed a dry run for the Zero Robotics competition scheduled...

A "Fourth Industrial Revolution," characterized by unprecedented "developments in genetics, artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printing, and biotechnology," may soon be upon us, replacing five million ...

Highlights from Friday's spacewalk with Tim Peake and Tim Kopra

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Taser, the company that's sold electroshock weapons to some 18,000 law enforcement organizations all over the world for years, has made its smallest weapon ever. And it's not for cops--it's for regular people like you an...

A wireless sensor that dissolves when its job is done helps patients avoid the need for additional surgery needed to remove current devices, researchers say. The tiny device is just one millimeter in size.

Studies confirm the importance of omega-3 essential fatty acids in brain development. Better brain function is seen in children of moms who included significant amounts of fish in their diets, researchers say.

Washington University School of Medicine researchers have developed a new type of brain sensor that is tiny, wireless, and dissolves after a certain amount of time, eliminating the need for removal surgery. These sensors...

Just because it's 2016 doesn't mean you can't have a terrifying medieval contraption attached to your vagina. In Padua, Italy, this weekend, a woman (whose name has been kept private) showed up at her local fire station ...

Researchers from MIPT have found a solution to the problem of the overheating of active plasmonic components for high-speed data transfer in the optoelectronic microprocessors of the future. These will be able to functio...

Doing the simple and mundane things we do every morning here on Earth takes on a completely new challenge in space. The challenge in microgravity is that things just don't work the same way they do here on Earth in norma...

We received the best looking phishing email we've seen in a long time, if not ever, and wanted to make folks aware of it. While it looks like it could be from Apple, including legitimate links to Apple's Support site and...

"Facebook is not a place for the dissemination of hate speech"

Spike has renewed its viral hit show Lip Sync Battle for a third season, which features two celebrities duking it out in epic lip sync battles, complete with set designs, backup dancers, and costumes The post Watch these...

Spend less time cleaning and more time enjoying a clean home with HIZERO, the world's first dual-use self-cleaning floor cleaner. Combining the powers of the two greatest cleaning tools, the mop and the vacuum, HIZERO cl...

Last week, astronauts Tim Peake and Tim Kopra scrambled around the outside of the International Space Station to replace a failed voltage regulator. The hard work didn't prevent Peake from taking a selfie, though.

Pluto's weirdly dynamic and 'young' surface has just become even more intriguing with the release of this stunning color image of what is thought to be a huge cryovolcano, or ice volcano.

The words "God save the queen" were spoken in space for the first time, according to an astronaut who received a message of salutation from Britain's monarch.

A thick nitrogen atmosphere might be able to support liquid water on the surface of an alien planet. Now researchers are learning how to spot this potentially important element from Earth.

Smartphone makers are obsessed with making their gear thinner, and Norwegian startup Elliptic Labs has come up with a pretty good way to help. Their answer: get rid of the proximity sensors in our phones (and the requisi...

Internet security software firm SplashData has released its annual list of passwords of the worst and most common passwords that you absolutely must not use. If you use any of the ones we list below, you must change them...

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is developing a Congressional Cybersecurity Lab (CCL) intended to help teach technically unsavvy politicians the wily ways of cybersecurity. The William and Flora Hewl...