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With its forthcoming Space Launch System, NASA hopes to send astronauts farther into space than it ever has ever before--to Mars and beyond. And when the first crew does leave to make interplanetary history, they'll do s...

Sam Van Aken discovered that an old New York state orchard--with varieties of stone fruit 200 years old--was about to be abandoned in 2008. He bought it to save those species but also to experiment: Grafting from the exi...

There are lots of different kinds of love out there, but perhaps none more pure than between people and their favorite books. You could keep a copy of your one and only out at all times, prominently placed on a shelf at ...

Hey look, a new router from ASUS and, apparently, it is super, super fast. According to the Taiwanese company, its RT-AC87 is "the world's first" with Wave 2 features, which bring better reliability, major speed boosts a...

Uber wants to tote you about town, and have been rolling out to various cities nationwide. If you had a Windows Phone, though -- you were left to the mobile web version of Uber, which just wasn't as good as any native ap...

Radio telescopes, which you may remember Jodie Foster intently listening to for signs of alien life in Contact, pluck out radio waves from far away space. Ordinary communications satellite dishes also pick up radio waves...

I don't know which Avengers character I would love playing the most in this game. Would it be Iron Man so I get to use his crazy ass suit? Thor, for his long locks and hammer? Captain America's super shield? Ah, who am I...

The search for extraterrestrial life begins, often enough, on Earth. In this case, it's an Alaskan glacier, where the robot VALKYRIE is proving its ice-chomping abilities in a field test. VALKYRIE is supposed to one day ...

Apple is seriously talking to payments-industry companies about debuting a mobile wallet, according to a report from The Information. Executives are at least considering a fall release date, and are discussing hardware s...

With just about as little fanfare as possible, the folks at Valve have once again updated their design for the Steam Controller. This is the controller that users will be playing with when they engage in action with Stea...

Major Wi-Fi advance will help prevent wasted bandwidth.

Tracking the lightning quick development of modern cities is easy with Google Street View , but a big new project aims to provide context for the past 1,000 years of urban evolution in Venice, Italy. The Venice Time Mach...

Earlier this month we got the opportunity to have our first hands-on experience with the NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet in relatively short form. Before we do our full review, NVIDIA has made with the public assurances in the long...

Here's the thing about drones--and really any machine that flies: If something goes wrong, it will fall to the ground. And if you are in the way, it will hurt you . That's why DJI is rolling out a new feature called Drop...

"The second time I rode into London in an effort to gain some fitness, rather than take the train, ended like this," says YouTube user cyclejack. "This" being an idiot in a car deciding to ignore him, ramming and sending...

There is perhaps no unfinished skyscraper more infamous than Torre de David , a 45-story shell of a building that has informally housed about 5,000 Venezuelans since 2007 . Now the property that has become known as the w...

Runners and other fitness enthusiasts often listen to music while they're doing their thing, and a good portion of those folks also have a fitness wearable. Rather that have to wear two devices, wouldn't it be handy to g...

The designers at Studio Kuadra have deconstructed the iconic cuckoo clock for this amusing new timepiece that introduces a pair of bird watchers, obsessively hoping to catch a glimpse of the cuckoo in a nearby tree at th...

If you've hailed an Uber ride on a Windows Phone handset, you're aware that the you were beamed to the service's mobile site rather via a full-fledged app. That changed today, as the taxi outfit returns to Microsoft's mo...

Amazon can't be too pleased with the first batch of Fire Phone reviews. The smartphone's more outlandish technology works, certainly - Dynamic Perspective tracks your face; Firefly snaps and searches for your products - ...

German astronaut Alexander Gerst reports live with this photo of Gaza from the International Space Station. This is his description. "My saddest photo yet. From #ISS we can actually see explosions and rockets flying over...

When Valve first announced its controller for the Steambox, it was a weird little dude with strange, small buttons and a touchscreen . And for as weird as it was, it was kind of great . Then it lost the touchscreen for s...