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Holy sci-fi awesome space balls. European astronomers have discovered an alien planet in Alpha Centauri, the star system that's pretty much our neighbor. The planet, which is Earth-sized, is only 4.3 light years away. Mo...

Microsoft exec Michael Angiulo had a pretty good day today: Microsoft Surface, an awesome product he helped make and introduce, opened up for pre-orders and this beyond awesome rap he did with rapper Too Short for his 40...

When Charlie bit his brother's finger in 2007, the entire Internet fell in love. It's one of the most popular YouTube videos ever at nearly 500 million views and those adorable little boys could do no wrong. Until, well ...

Here's the one time a condom tearing and exploding in front of your eyes will actually brighten up your day: The Slow Mo Guys decided to wrap a condom around their heads, fill it up with water and then watch it explode i...

It's common knowledge that anything descending from above is awesome. Superman. Rainbows. Felix Baumgartner. Our future alien overlords. All inherently better because they came from the heavens. Now, thanks to German ing...

Check out this animated GIF. It's the toughest moment of the space shuttle Endeavour's drive across Los Angeles, en route to its permanent retirement place, at the Science Center. More »

Remember how chairs are like Facebook? Of course you don't! That ad was super dumb, and you bleached it from your brain just as quickly as you could. But that doesn't mean you can't have some fun with other things Facebo...

Pills, they're the answer to every one of life's little problems, or so the pharmaceutical companies would like us to think. They come in all sorts of shapes, sizes and colours, but have you ever thought about why? Why a...

What happened to Microsoft? Not only has it just busted out some pretty decent tablets, but its execs seem to know how to have fun too. Steven Sinofsky, head of the Windows unit, decided to mount some skate trucks on the...

Felix Baumgartner's record-breaking supersonic jump was an amazing feat of human endeavour. But getting Felix to break the speed of sound caused Red Bull Stratos technical project director Art Thompson some engineering h...

Despite Contour offering some stiff competition of recent time, think of an action cam, and the name GoPro probably comes to mind. The company is trying to cement that reputation with the Hero3, which claims to be smalle...

The concept of a human-powered helicopter is surprisingly simple. The creation of a human-powered helicopter? Not so simple. People have been trying for 30 years to create a human-powered helicopter that can hover for 60...

Here are the stats on the average Twitter user: she's a 28 years old American girl who has an iPhone, has 208 Twitter followers while following 102 people, tweets a lot about fashion and family, likes the color purple an...

You want to be a precise chef, and you know that a cup is not always a foolproof cup, depending on your equipment and your method of measuring. In order to be as accurate as possible, you'll want to invest in a scale, li...

Remember that Animaniacs song that names ever single U.S. president? The wacky cartoon's history lesson is still clever, for both kids and adults, kind of like this American Presidents iPad app. More »