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How do you build a spaceship? It's not easy, because space is risky - but potential payoffs are vast. ESA's track record allows us to manage that risk, balancing it with chances for rich rewards

Brought to Pennsylvania from Peru in the early 1900s, the mummy's origins are murky.

India launched 29 satellites into orbit on April 1, 2019 on the heels of a military anti-satellite missile test.

Photographer and YouTuber Mathieu Stern is no stranger to finding and adapting unusual lenses, but his latest find might just be the best projector lens he's ever come across. The Isco MC 65mm F2 lens, which can be found...

Sony updated its refund policy for pre-orders and faulty content purchased on the PlayStation Store to make things a bit more lenient for users. The new rules issued on Monday gives users who pre-ordered digital content ...

Clay on the Martian surface may be able to sustain and nourish microbes, and the Curiosity rover has just rolled into an area on Mars that's chock full of it

Coffee drinkers rejoice! Amazon is running a fantastic one-day deal on 10 different coffee products that will ensure that you're all stocked up for at least the next few months. There are four different McCafé K-Cups op...

The Panasonic Lumix FZ1000 II is an updated version of the 5-year-old FZ1000 bridge super-zoom camera. This new version offers a touchscreen, Bluetooth connectivity, Zoom Compose Assist function, enhanced 4K photo mode, ...

Gerard Williams III is said to have overseen most of Apple's chip designs, including the first 64-bit chip in a commercial smartphone.

Drinking too much liquid before bed may result in an unwanted trip to the toilet before morning, but some people find they have to make trips even if they’re careful about how much they drink. These annoying midnight b...

The Google Pixel 2 line is no longer available at the Google Store, signaling the beginning of the end.

We've been searching for signs of methane on Mars for decades now without anything definitive. That may have changed.

A reanalysis of data collected by ESA's Mars Express during the first 20 months of NASA's Curiosity mission found one case of correlated methane detection, the first time an in-situ measurement has been independently con...

Another solution for a problem that doesn't exist. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an editorial complaining about in-screen fingerprint sensors — going as far to say that they're the worst thing about phones in 2019. I'...

The FAA's first sanctioned, revenue-generating drone delivery service involves speeding up the movement of blood and tissue samples.

April Fools joke this isn’t, especially after Microsoft reportedly banned such shenanigans from making it outside of the company. Rumors about a more powerful entry-level Surface Book 2 has been going around for almost...

More than a few restaurant-goers in the US will want to check their bank statements. Earl Enterprises has confirmed that hackers used point-of-sale malware to scoop up credit and card data at some of its US restaurants b...

Well, folks, it's just a few hours shy of the turn of the month, and you know what that means: April Fool's Day. Yes, it's that special time of year when insipid brands, mean-spirited teens, and tech titans compete to be...

If you thought the DEA's mass surveillance was irresponsible, you're not the only one. The Justice Department's Inspector General has released a report showing that the DEA "failed to conduct a comprehensive legal analys...

The Drug Enforcement Administration maintained a database of people who purchased money-counting machines as part of a "legally questionable" effort to identify suspected drug dealers for further surveillance and enforce...

Anyone who's excited about the release of Avengers: Endgame, which is now less than a month away, doesn't have to be reminded that the internet is completely drowning in countless fan theories and suppositions about how ...

Researchers conducted the largest study of childhood cancer after conception by IVF to date. This population-based cohort study had nearly 2.5 times the number of children conceived by IVF than prior studies of the subje...