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While Marvel surprised many comic book fans last summer when it announced a new series of Thor with a woman as the title character, sales numbers over the last few months have proven it to be a smart move, at least busin...

If you thought $10 was highway robbery when it comes to apps, this colorful infographic should help put things in perspective.

While many of us hold the opossum in about as much esteem as a sewer rat, turns out, we ought to be showing this particular urban trashivore a lil' more respect. Opossums may end up saving thousands of humans from deadly...

As most of her fans know, Ellen DeGeneres has been messing (hilariously) with Today Show host Matt Lauer. Now, it'd seem, Matt's decided to get even. After opening her car door and spilling ping pong balls all over a par...

Electric cars can do more for the environment than cut back on air pollution and fossil fuel use -- they can make sweltering summers more bearable, too. Researchers have determined that EVs create a cooling effect in urb...

If you come to the US through Washington DC's Dulles airport in the near future, don't be surprised if Customs and Border Protection takes your snapshot before letting you through. The agency has confirmed to Motherboard...

Quantum computers--theoretical machines which can process certain large and difficult problems exponentially faster than classical computers--have been a mainstay of science fiction for decades. But actually building one...

As anyone who's ever owned a pet fish or gone to a public swimming pool knows, chlorine is commonly used to disinfect water. Ironically, when it comes to sewage treatment, it may be doing just the opposite.

Linden Gledhill is a photographer with a background in biochemistry, and lately, he's been using his scientific training to make the microscopic world look absolutely breathtaking.

If you live in the United States, you might've been surprised when Facebook purchased WhatsApp for $19 billion -- or, in other words, thing-you'd-think-you'd-have-heard-of money. Facebook identified what those of us in t...

Scientists are mulling over which of two icy bodies NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should visit following its Pluto encounter this summer -- provided the U.S. space agency comes up with funding for an extended mission.

The YouTube Music Awards is finally happening this Monday after taking a year off. There probably won't be spontaneous antics and cake-digging this time, though -- like the Google-owned video website announced in 2014, i...

If you struggle with your weekly grocery list, wandering around your local store trying to remember what items you need to buy, a reminder or list app for your smartphone is probably what you need. But imagine instead an...

A class action lawsuit was filed against Twitter late last week in San Francisco, with a former software engineer alleging the company's promotion process is discriminatory towards women. This comes at a time when such l...

Spotify might have bent over backwards to lift restrictions on its free streaming service a couple of years ago, but at least one music label appears eager to turn back the clock. Financial Times sources understand that ...

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great tech reads from around the web. This week's crop shines a light on the (white, male) bias of language on the internet and the prosthetics industry, and explores the d...

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles sequel is set to begin filming next month in New York City and Buffalo. We didn't much care for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , but it was a huge hit, ergo sequel. One good thing: rumor is...

Its insides are more than competitive, but they're encased in 2010's design.

These days, we've got Lego collaborating and releasing brick sets based on nearly every Hollywood action/adventure movie, video games about Lego versions of superheroes, and even Lego staring in their own movie. Well, as...

The National Snow and Ice Data Center has just released the results of its latest analysis of Arctic sea ice. Surprise--the prognosis is not good. The maximum extent of Arctic sea ice occurred early this year, and, at 5....

Luxury auto maker Mercedes-Benz has just announced that it will be greatly expanding its lineup of plug-in hybrid models by launching 10 new vehicles between now and 2017. As of now only two models are confirmed for sale...

Each week our friends at Inhabitat recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green. It was a big week for Tesla. CEO Elon Musk just announced the end of electric ...