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The moon's surface is being "gardened"--churned by small impacts--more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought. This means that surface features believed to be young are perhaps even younger than assumed...

Apple’s plans for adaptive keyboard elements may go beyond replacing the function keys on the MacBook Pro with a touch sensitive OLED strip. A new report claims Apple wants Sonder’s E Ink-based keyboard system for fu...

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The longest living Martian rover ever - Opportunity - has just surpassed another unfathomable milestone - 4500 Sols (or days) exploring the Red Planet !! That's 50 times beyond her "warrantied" life expectancy of merely ...

Technology image of the week: the contract is signed for ESA's newest, biggest small nanosatellite yet: the 6-unit GomX-4B CubeSat, seen here flying with its twin

Life exists in a myriad of wondrous forms, but if you break any organism down to its most basic parts, it's all the same stuff: carbon atoms connected to hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and other elements. But how these funda...

As the ExoMars Schiaparelli module descends onto Mars on 19 October it will capture 15 images of the approaching surface. Scientists have simulated the view we can expect to see from the descent camera....

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Relying on data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, astronomers have found evidence of a new dwarf planet that is the farthest object from our Sun to date. The post A New Dwarf Planet Joins The Solar System Family appea...

Our Milky Way has a densely populated centre -- a feature common to many galaxies, but unique in that it is close enough to study in depth....

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Earlier this year, it was reported Apple was in "advanced talks" to acquire British semiconductor designer Imagination Technologies, just one week after the chip maker announced job cuts. Apple subsequently confirmed the...

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins inspected the Bigelow Aerospace Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) attached to the International Space Station on Sept. 5, 2016. Expandable habitats are designed to take up less room on a spacec...

Not all new things need to be a big jump and break from the past. Sometimes, a winning formula needs only a few tweaks here, some new tings there. That seems to be the spirit of the latest generation of BMW's popular sed...

The original painting for the movie poster for "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" has sold for almost $400,000 at auction.

One area limiting speed in personal computing speed is memory -- specifically, how quickly individual memory cells can be switched, which is currently done using an external magnetic field. European and Russian scientist...

Amazon has launched its long-rumored on-demand music streaming service.It's called Amazon Music Unlimited, and it is meant to take on Spotify and Apple Music and other similar streaming services. Here's everything you ne...

How well do those online voter registration campaigns work, really? Better than you might think. Both officials and the Center for Election Innovation & Research report that Facebook's four-day voter registration campaig...

The Moon's surface is being "gardened" -- churned by small impacts -- more than 100 times faster than scientists previously thought....

Soylent still doesn't know what's making its Food Bar customers so sick, but the meal replacement company isn't taking any more chances. On Wednesday, Soylent announced it was halting all sales and shipments of the produ...

In the grand tradition of crowdsourcing everything, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took his personal page to ask the people a simple question: Who should be the voice of Jarvis, the home assistant he's currently developing...

If you ride a bike and care at all about your safety, you should be wearing a helmet. Otherwise you’re just asking for instant death as there’s really nothing to save you from a collision. Not protecting your elbows,...