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Water, bread, eyes and vomit all do weird things in space. Chris Hadfield, who abandons his post as ISS commander today, explains. Today, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield passed command of the International...

When things go wrong on the International Space Station, astronauts often have to get creative with the repairs. Here are 5 of NASA's most MacGyver-y moments. Click to launch the photo gallery Spacewalking astronauts see...

If your town were suddenly struck by an earthquake or hurricane, you could count on the arrival of police, firefighters, and medical technicians to aid in the emergency response. As of this past January, the US governmen...

Brain cells turn out to have a timetable for genetic activity, just like cells elsewhere - but this pattern is out of sync in people with depression

Tiny middle ear bones belonging to two of our australopith forebears reveal that the hominins lacked our sensitivity to speech frequencies

Here are 10 great, odd edits from the past 10 minutes. At any given moment, somebody is almost certainly editing something on Wikipedia. Will that person have any expertise on the subject? Who knows! (For the story of on...

There's currently a wave of attacks against power plants, according to new reports. Middle Eastern hackers have been attacking U.S. utility companies and trying to gain control of their computer systems, the Washington P...

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I DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHO HAD TO PACK THEIR KNIVES AND GO Twivo is a simple idea: protect yourself from spoilers by censoring references to a given TV show until you can get home and catch up. It's a nice little tool with...

Weirdly, it bears a striking resemblance to non-stealth drones. Last week Iran unveiled the brand-new Hamaseh Stealth and Combat Drone. You can see it above. Note the non-retractable landing gear and externally carried m...

A database of over 200 million global events could help understand and forecast how conflicts will play out (full text available to subscribers)

Russia and six allies have blocked the move to require countries to develop policies on asbestos imports

Computer chips and silicon micromachines are ready for your body. It's time to decide how you'll take them: implantable, ingestible, or intimate contact. Every flavor now exists. Some have FDA approval and some are seeki...

A new field, a new force, the power of our own ignorance? It's two-thirds of the cosmos but it just keeps us guessing, says Stephen Battersby (full text available to subscribers)

A seriously beautiful video marks the end of a seriously entertaining ISS expedition. International Space Station Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield has taught us so much about space. He's shown us how to make sandwi...

A compact MIDI guitar that helps budding musicians learn to shred. As a kid, electrical engineer Dan Sullivan mastered the guitar. His teenage sons, however, prefer mastering videogames. With a realistic instrument, Sull...

Bioscience and medical technology are propelling us beyond the old human limits. Are Extremes and The Posthuman good guides to this frontier?

Physicist Leo Kouwenhoven ended a 75-year hunt for the tricky Majorana fermion - a particle that is its own antiparticle - by creating one on a chip