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Motorola Moto X Motorola You can ask your smartphones to do a lot of things—remind you to pick up the dry cleaning, check for traffic on your commute home.

Virgin Galactic/Scaled Composites Spaceship Two Virgin Galactic To reach space, Sir Richard Branson’s Spaceship Two must eventually pass Mach 3.5.

Brain Scan Niels Heidenreich The latest neuroscience study of sex differences to hit the popular press has inspired some familiar headlines.

    "You can ban drugs, but you can't ban chemistry," Mike Power, author of Drugs 2.0, explains in this talk at the HIT Hot Topics Conference.

Animal Testing Ryan Snook Last summer, the National Institutes of Health announced that it’s phasing out experiments on chimpanzees.

President Obama Inside A SCIF In A Rio De Janiero Hotel Room President Obama authorizes military action in Libya inside a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility," made inside his hotel room in Rio de Janeiro.

UCSD Skysweeper UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering Skysweeper inches along live power lines scouting for bad splices, frays, tangled branches, and other trouble spots.

Roboray Roboray maps its surroundings in real time.

The Old USB ed g2s The USB 3.0 Promoter Group, which is a group of tech companies that promotes USB, has announced that the next USB plug specification is currently being developed.

Though it was the first manned mission of the program and the was the first to fly after three colleagues were killed in the Apollo 1 fire, Apollo 7 is probably the least well remembered of all Apollo missions. It wasn’t a glamorous flight to the ...

Penguin Selfie G Adventures Between this penguin and this eagle, it has been a good week for incidental animal selfies.

Silkworms Fed a Red Dye Form Pink Silk American Chemical Society, from "Uptake of Azo Dyes into Silk Glands for Production of Colored Silk Cocoons Using a Green Feeding Approach" Brown cows may not actually make chocolate milk, but pink silkwor...

The Pet Pathogen Paradox Are pets our friends or germy enemies? Sources: Wikipedia, Public Health Image Library; Modification: Jason Tetro With the Holiday Season in full swing, many families will turn not to the tried and true tradition of i...

Image of One Gel Electrophoresis Experiment, Copied Three Times Original image made by Dr d12 on Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0 Italian biologist Enrico Bucci originally developed his startup's software to make scientists' lives easier.

Modern Times Wikimedia Commons According to a study conducted by the Library of Congress, 70 percent of American silent films are lost--and a good portion of the remaining ones aren't exactly in great shape, either.