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The Full Disk Here's a full-on "disk" shot of the planet, taken by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite.

Illustration of a Generic Flu Virus Centers for Disease Control and Prevention A synthetic biology method proves its chops.

'Joe's' multi-round-ready 3-D printed Lulz Liberator A Wisconsin engineer has produced a cheaper, more durable version of Defense Distributed's 3-D printed pistol on an inexpensive, consumer-grade printer.

foc.us Headset foc.us For when you just HAVE to beat everyone at Call of Duty.

A Waffle House in Fort Worth, under sunnier skies Billy Hathorn via Wikimedia No we're not kidding, and yes that's a good thing.

Twister OAR/ERL/National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) A warming world pulls the two factors of tornado formation in opposite directions.

Well Protected An unsuspecting infant about to get a vaccination in her thigh, Dekalb County, Georgia, 1977 CDC/Meredith Hickson Deadly pertussis is on the rise in the U.S., but is it really the fault of the anti-vaccine crowd? There were more cases ...

Generation Robot Paul Lachine Introducing Generation Robot For Christmas in 1993, my father gave me a My Magic Diary, a children's version of Casio's digital organizer.

Mini Arcade Machine (L) James Ellerker/Guinness World Records/ (R) Popular Science Three games shrunk, digitized, and boozed up to a whole new level Mini Arcade Machine In 2006, Mark Slevinsky fixed a Tron arcade game that a friend had left for tras...

CHIMP: Carnegie Mellon University Before robots can respond to the simulated disaster, they'll have to reach it.

Microsoft Xbox One Microsoft At last: a game console that doesn't require gaming.

It will be powering smartphone apps by the end of the year too.

Xbox One Microsoft Today Microsoft unveiled its next-gen console.

New York City Heat Aurelien Guichard via Wikimedia Commons Summer in the city could get a whole lot more miserable in the coming decades, according to a new report.

Aquifers in the Continental US This map of major aquifers in the U.S.