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MAX PLANCK, the inventor of quantum theory, once said that science advances one funeral at a time. He meant--or, at least, is presumed to have meant--that the death of a dominant mind in a field liberates others with dif...

The bright spots of Ceres continue to be a source of fascination for astronomers , professional and amateur alike. Now, NASA has provided the most detailed images yet of the strange structures.

Experts have lots of theories, but the one that seems likeliest would be a grind.

In its monthlong fight with the Department of Justice over digital privacy, Apple has insisted it would under no circumstances force its engineers to undermine the company's security measures. So when federal prosecutors...

The Kepler space telescope captures something wonderful: the shockwave of an exploding star.

Fresh off its 10th birthday celebrations, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey talks the future of the company in an extensive new profile of the social media entrepreneur. Topics on the agenda include user growth, Periscope, live co...

The Colorado-based startup Boom hopes to manufacture an affordable supersonic passenger jet and Richard Branson's Virgin Group wants to help it get off the ground, purchasing a 10-plane option valued at $2 billion. The p...

A neutron star spinning from 7 to 40,000 times a minute emits beams of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected. NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has been used to capture data about these "lighthouses."

 It appears that Google is working on a third-party keyboard for iOS that would allow search functionality directly within the keyboard itself, according to The Verge. Casey Newton reports that the keyboard will have sw...

Ride-hailing app Uber is offering hackers up to $10,000 to hack its system to uncover flaws, the company said on Tuesday.

Google will attempt to show how it aims to scramble into cloud contention at its first global cloud users conference, NEXT, starting today in San Francisco.

The Navy's largest and costliest destroyer was sent out to sea Monday for final trials before its delivery to the military. The future USS Zumwalt features an angled hull that looks like a hybrid of something out of Sovi...

WhatsApp's earlier announcement that it's leaving the BlackBerry ecosystem was apparently only the beginning of Facebook's exodus from the platform. The world's biggest social network and its Messenger app will stop work...

Researchers examined the willingness of voting US citizens to become living kidney donors and to determine the potential influence of compensation for donation.

Ron Allum has made a career developing submarines and exploring the deep ocean. It sounds like a pretty good gig.

Yahoo is following the lead of DraftKings and FanDuel and stopping its paid daily fantasy sports operations in New York. Reuters reports that this shutdown won't affect other states, however.

The New Horizons probe revealed the surface features of Pluto in rich detail when it reached the dwarf planet in July 2015. Some of the features look like snapshots of rivers and lakes that are locked firmly in place by ...

Liquid metal batteries, invented by MIT professor Donald Sadoway and his students a decade ago, are a promising candidate for making renewable energy more practical. The batteries, which can store large amounts of energy...

Humans aren't the only ones trying their best to warm up the world like it's a Hot Pocket. Bacteria are also creating particles that melt glaciers and make the world comfortable for more bacteria.

The Creative iRoar has the ability to floor listeners with the sound it pumps out of such a small package. This CES 2016 Innovation Award honoree Bluetooth speaker takes things to an entire new level with high end featur...

Twitter is considering a new product that would let you add images to your photos.

Technically Incorrect: For some reason or other, researchers at Ohio State decided to confront one of the world's dullest cliches. And look what they discovered.