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In a seminal paper in Science more than 20 years ago, scientists described a device that was capable of causing drops of water placed on it to move uphill ("How to Make Water Run Uphill").
The U.S. Air Force released a lengthy report denying the arrival UFOs and aliens 16 years ago today, but that hasn't stopped Roswell from becoming a hub for tourists.
A new twist on the sea burial helps to protect and restore fragile marine ecosystems.
This is some seriously minimal underwear! Here's why it could be awesome.
Reader M.D.W. wrote a very informative article, as far as he went. The newest technology in the air rifle race is the nitrogen piston, replacing the metal spring on the break action guns, both in rifle and pistol format.
The organism, discovered just five years ago, is closely related to the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.
Snowden, wherever he is, probably wants to avoid countries that have extradition treaties with the U.S.
At a speech at Georgetown University, he laid out the basics for how the country will combat climate change--whether or not Congress helps.
Solar manufacturers are eager to implement several new technologies that could make solar power cheaper, and the panels easier to make.
Climate change predictions paint a bleak picture for much of the world's flora and fauna:
Taking aspirin regularly may reduce the risk of most types of colon cancer, a new study suggests.
Astrophysicist Eric Davis is one of the leaders in the field of faster-than-light (FTL) space travel. But for Davis, humanity's potential to explore the vastness of space at warp speed is not science fiction.
Scientists have recently discovered that the human brain bears the imprint of earlier events for at least 24 hours after the experience has taken place.
The habitable zone of a nearby star is filled to the brim with planets that could support alien life, scientists announced today (June 25).
As a young surgeon, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation.
Let's take another trip down the rabbit hole, shall we? Lost in the Edward Snowden debate is a critical look at his former employer, the company doing the spying on Americans in the first place: Booz Allen Hamilton. Booz Allen Hamilton is a go
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Voting with your shares at company annual meetings is generally a boring affair. But sometimes things can really heat up…a shareholder activist is rallying the troops, management is making poor decisions, or there’s a potential acquisition…the list g
I regret that for most of my adult life, I treated sleep as more a luxury than a necessity.
Christopher Allen Simcox, 52, who founded the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps in 2005, was booked into a Maricopa County jail on suspicion of child molestation, attempted child molestation and sexual exploitation of a minor.
If rocks contain jade, the scientists can be fairly sure those rocks are a vestige of an ocean buried underground. Rubies, on the other hand, appear in places where mountains formed from continental collisions, even if those mountains were eroded awa
will also be easy to put the Chinese economy on a war footing. China’s central planning institutions are well suited to the mobilization of resources for defense industries. A military buildup would also help to alleviate excess capacity problems in
he neonicotinoid pesticides are coating corn seed and with the use of new air seeders, are blowing the pesticide dust into the air when planted. The death of millions of pollinators was looked at by American Purdue University. They found that, “Bees
Russia has been looking for new markets for its energy exports because of shrinking demand in Europe, its traditional market, said Liao Na, the vice-president of energy consultancy ICIS C1 Energy. "The seller and the buyer both have strong willi
A team of hackers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Washington conducted a study in 2010 which concluded that all cars equipped with antilock brakes sold in the U.S. can be hacked.....
Once again, we have more embarrassing conversations between bankers ... The Irish Independent, a Dublin-based newspaper, has uncovered tapes of an internal phone conversation from September 2008 between two executives at Anglo Irish Bank during i
You can take pretty much any kid to an arcade, drop a few quarters into whatever Resident Evil knockoff you find there, put the fluorescent blue Uzi in their tiny little hands, and they’ll know what to do.
In his new book, Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America, journalist Jon Mooallem uses the polar bear, the whooping crane, and a species of butterfly to tell the story of our ta
It’s just after 10 on a Thursday morning and Chip Yates — whose energy is exceeded only by his imagination — is on his fourth errand of the day. He’s in a small fabrication shop in a nondescript industrial park, with a few minutes to kill.
In the wake of recent revelations that the National Security Agency (NSA) and other government snoops are monitoring the electronic communications of U.S. citizens, millions of us wanted to know what, if anything, we could do to protect our email, ce
