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Astrophysicists Eric Charles and Mattia Di Mauro discuss the surprising glow of our neighbor galaxy. Astronomers recently discovered a stronger-than-expected glow of gamma rays at the center of the Andromeda galaxy, the ...

Samsung buried the name Bixby inside a local privacy page, practically confirming the name of the voice-based virtual assistant that we expect to see in the Galaxy S8. This isn't the first time we see evidence that links...

Scientists are 3D printing cheese and comparing it to regular, processed cheese. As one does.

Taking up just about 97 square feet, the Ecocubo is designed to be both environmentally friendly and inconspicuous among its surroundings. The Ecocubo is positioned on stilts for minimal impact to the landscape. The post...

Let's speculate wildly about some unusual lines standing out in the snow in Russia as spotted by an astronaut on board the space station.

Tesla has raised $1.2 billion in new cash from sale of common shares, and convertible notes that come due in 2022. The total amount includes $350 mtillion in share sales, plus $850 million raised via the senior notes, wh...

A team of researchers concluded it was "extremely difficult" and inefficient. SpaceNews.com

For the second time in the past few months, Americans went to the polls and voted in a way that will have half the country scratching its heads. Kicking the classic boot, wheelbarrow, and thimble tokens to the curb, the ...

Every year, skilled coders at the annual Pwn2Own hacking conference get to work and remind us that no piece of software is impervious from targeted attacks. Last year, for example, hackers at the conference managed to ex...

Netflix is about to ditch star ratings for movies, switching instead to a simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down system. The streaming giant says testing showed thumbs to be more popular, which should improve recommendations. T...

Do you remember what you were doing on Twitter in 2010? Twitter accounts have been compromised by a range of security issues lately -- and in at least one case the vulnerability is tied to a decision users made years ago...

Nintendo Switch is in short supply – which is good news for Nintendo, but not so great news for customers looking to get their hands on one of the new consoles. They’ve been hard to find since launch, and Nintendo an...

If you launch a new console with a massively successful game like Zelda: Breath of the Wild, it’s not that hard to sell your console. This is exactly what is happening with the Nintendo Switch as Nintendo is ramping up...

Why was 6 afraid of 7? Because 789. Whether this pun makes you giggle or groan in pain, your reaction is a consequence of the ambiguity of the joke. Thus far, models have not been able to fully account for the complexity...

Speed is everything on the internet, and as a general rule of thumb: the smaller the file, the faster it'll load. To help with that, Google created a new open-source JPEG encoder that will purportedly reduce the file siz...

Researchers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully imaged a radio "hole" around a galaxy cluster 4.8 billion light-years away. This is the highest resolution image ever taken of such a...

Carbon dioxide emissions from the energy sector have not increased for three years in a row even as the global economy grew

Measuring how the distance between galaxies changes is key to working out how dark energy drives the universe's accelerating expansion - now a new ruler may help

Pretty much everything that's great about technology today is thanks to the microprocessor. Billions of them are manufactured every year and they are one of the many reasons you can read this fine website. But few people...

Spooky adventure game Oxenfree has made its way to mobile. Developer Night School's sidescrolling tale debuted on PC and Xbox One early last January, with a stop on PlayStation 4 last May that added, among other things, ...

Soverain Software, a non-practicing entity that gained media attention for suing Newegg and other online retailers over "shopping cart" patents, on Thursday filed a complaint against Apple for alleged infringement of IP ...

When David Bowie passed away early last year at the age of 69 it impacted many of his millions and millions of fans in a very profound way. Tributes were in no short supply, and the late musician has been honored and mem...