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A new report links a major spree of business hacking to a single unit of the Chinese army. Here's what the new era of spying means for cyberdefense. This morning, private cybersecurity firm Mandiant released a report tyi...

Yesterday, the password for Burger King's official Twitter account was stolen, and whoever was behind it began doing some kinda funny things, like pretending Burger King had been bought by McDonald's, or insisting BK emp...

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the Argus II artificial retina to restore partial sight to patients who are blind. The device, sometimes dubbed a bionic eye, was designed at the Lawrence Livermore Nat...

Once Planetary Resources has figured out how to get to an asteroid and how to mine it--what will they mine? Near-Earth asteroids contain abundant iron, nickel, platinum group metals, and water. If space is to be the "fin...

Researchers on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which sits above the International Space Station, have collected their first results - but won't reveal them for two weeks

Researchers on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which sits above the international space station, have collected their first results - but won't reveal them for two weeks

Hamsters are small rodents that are commonly kept as house pets.

A new Kickstarter project lets you draw in the air, then watch a scribble form in plastic. We've seen fun drawing/doodling inventions before, but this one, put on Kickstarter today and already more than $50,000 past its ...

Technology is taking the guesswork out of finding evolution's turning points, from the first fish with legs to our own recent forebears, says Jeff Hecht (full text available to subscribers)

False-colour pictures let us see the chemical and physical landscape of the normally beige planet closest to the sun

Over the next two years, engineers will be giving the Large Hadron Collider the makeover it needs to reach its maximum design energy

With budget cuts looming, the DHS could replace some of its military aircraft with easier-to-maintain commercial planes. With the War in Iraq over and the War in Afghanistan winding down, the Department of Homeland Secur...

Make a bottle of rice "float" with this friction demo

The 3Doodle, which launched on Kickstarter today, lets users draw 3D structures in the air which solidify almost instantly

Fed up with dull names for exoplanets, Alan Stern and his company Uwingu have asked the public for help. Will it be so long 2M 0746+20b, hello Obama?

Nissan is the latest automaker to open a research center in Silicon Valley to explore the future of the car.