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A GFXBench listing emerged hinting at possible specs of the long awaited Google Project Ara. The listing suggests the device will come with a 13.8-inch display, Snapdragon 810, Android Marshmallow and more.

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ESA's Sentinel-3 Mission Manager Susanne Mecklenburg and Mission Scientist Craig Donlon join the show to tell us more about the Sentinel-3A satellite and its mission

This week's Carnival of Space is hosted by Gadi Eidelheit at his The Venus Transit blog.

Google initiates an unlocked/broken lock icon system in Gmail in honor of Safer Internet Day, showing whether or not emails are encrypted or not. Gmail email has been encrypted for some time. Not all other email services...

Search for answers about Stephen Hawking’s new theorem reveals a Scientific American tradition of illustrating the confounding complexity of black holes --

There are down sides to success. Australia's national science industry has announced that, as far as they're concerned, there is no longer any doubt that climate change exists--so they will no longer be funding research ...

If you didn't participate in The Division's recent closed beta, don't worry -- you're going to have another chance to play the game soon. Ubisoft has announced open beta dates for its new Tom Clancy title, which will be ...

Missing out on the morning planetary action? February sees all five naked eye planets in the dawn sky, though that's about to change in March. But the good news is, now is the time to hunt for a sometimes planet, sometim...

Valentine's Day is around the corner and you just realized that you don't have a date. How about giving man's best friend a shot? The Bark 'N' Borrow app can help you find just what you're looking for. The post Your Vale...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER - NASA officials proudly unveiled the pressure vessel for the agency's new Orion capsule destined to launch on the EM-1 mission to the Moon in 2018, after the vehicle arrived at the Kennedy Space Cen...

The first wave of Oculus Rift headsets are slated to start shipping next month. And if you've got one on pre-order, then it's probably about time you start thinking about your PC. If you've got an older machine, it likel...

Even though we are aware of the inevitability of death, we don't expect it to literally strike out of an empty sky.

Sighing proves important to the functioning of one's lungs, according to a new study from UCLA and Stanford researchers. The emotional roots of the act, however, remain a mystery.

Love Firefox, but want to make it even better to use, or customize it fit your needs? This list of the best Firefox add-ons will put you on the path to web browsing nirvana. The post 25 Firefox add-ons that will make you...

mDoc bridges the gap between rural patients and urban doctors, using a cloud-based service and the help of village health professionals. The post In Bangladesh, startup provides rural health care through tablets appeared...

In-game photo modes are cool and all, but beyond sharing your Driveclub or Arkham Knight snaps via social media, there isn't much you can do with them. Well, in the PC version of Firewatch (out this week, and on PlayStat...

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No matter how fast you get at solving the Rubik's Cube, you'll never be robot-fast. The race has been on to build a robot that outperforms other robots, solving the colorful cubed puzzle at record-breaking speeds. It was...

Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.

Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor, which appears to be drawing the Milky Way and hundreds of thousand...

Hundreds of hidden nearby galaxies have been studied for the first time, shedding light on a mysterious gravitational anomaly dubbed the Great Attractor.