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As a support scientist for NASA's Operation IceBridge mission, Jeremy Harbeck spends most of his time processing data at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. But it was on a recent visit to Greenland that he s...

You know what made the new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer especially great? A distinct lack of Jar Jar Binks. But some people, it seems, just want to watch the world burn.

Go for a water excursion for up to six hours with the One-Person Electric Watercraft. It's designed for a single person and includes a 12-volt electric motor drive with two-bladed propeller. So you get to enjoy those wat...

Space missions get all the hype, but NASA Aeronautics is doing some pretty rad stuff, too. Their ten engine, unmanned electric plane, for instance, has just successfully transitioned from hover mode to wing-borne flight ...

There's an unusual degree of forthrightness - sometimes bordering on vitriol - in how outspoken people are about the new MacBook Retina. It's something you see occasionally with high-profile, edge-pushing devices: not ju...

If you were ever wondering how much land mass had to be moved to produce that diamond engagement ring, this series of photos should help put things in perspective.

Want to live in a space city? You can't move there next week, but artist Micah Ganske has designed an incredible VR experience where you drive a small spacecraft through an O'Neill cylinder, a massive tube-shaped space h...

Just over week ago we told you the story of how one YouTuber saved himself a whole bunch of moolah by making his Apple Watch Sport gold with only some creativity and a can of spray paint. But what to do if you actually w...

Plants are delicate things, which makes them a pain to study under an electron microscope -- you'll probably damage the very cells you're trying to look at. You'll get a much better look if the University of Florida's ne...

For three years between 2011 and 2014, the unmanned Kamen K-Max 1200 helicopter delivered more than 4.5 million tons of supplies to the most dangerous and far-flung US Forward Operating Bases throughout Afghanistan. It f...

Sony's Android smartphones haven't been tinkerer-friendly to date -- since you couldn't boot from a recovery partition, you couldn't install CyanogenMod and other unofficial operating systems without jumping through hoop...

Guiding your vehicles around the perfect path with laser. By using the Park Right Dual Garage Laser Parking Sensor, you'll be able to safeguard your car from damage due to faulty parking. You just need to attach it on th...

A perfect minimalist dock for your newly bought Apple Watch. The DOCK for Apple Watch by Native Union features a sleek form and roating arm using which you can showcase the overall design of your Apple Watch while it rec...

Facebook might start natively hosting full Buzzfeed, National Geographic and The New York Times articles and videos as soon as this month, according to The Wall Street Journal. This new feature is called "Instant Article...

Welcome to Reading List, a weekly collection of great tech reads from around the web. This week explores the rage of the jilted crowdfunder, the untold history of the Silk Road, one man's unfortunate weekend using only t...

A pragmatist's guide to a nice but not quite necessary gadget.

There are plenty of smart devices out there in the market, ranging from smartwatches to smartphones and even smart cars and smart homes. The thing is, who would have thought that the world of wearables would see the incl...

If you're a non-magical being, you might think your chances of becoming invisible are slim to nil. But don't jump to conclusions just yet: Researchers are now claiming to have developed a portable system that can make sm...

Tesla is a big fan of selling electric cars directly to the public (much to dealers' chagrin), and it's now doing the same for used vehicles. The automaker has opened an online pre-owned store where you can buy someone's...

When it comes to LEGO, basically, your imagination is the limit – although having enough cash to pick up all of the different kinds of LEGO bricks too, would go a long way. How about having a different kind of LEGO bri...

Facebook, the company, doesn't like it when you leave Facebook, the social network, to view other content on the internet. Which is exactly what you do when you click a link to a news article that someone has shared in a...

Elon Musk announced Tesla's home / business battery today. tl;dr: It'll get enthusiastic early adopters to buy. The economics are almost there to make it cost effective for a wide market. And within just a few years, it ...