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Two major problems plague scientists who rely on satellites--first is the prohibitive cost, and second is the growing mass of junk...

We all laughed when people started duct-taping knives to Roombas, but the laughter has long since stopped: we're at the point now...

Here's something that ought to make the early morning commute a little more eventful.Toyota, the Japanese car company and occasional...

The idea of electromagnetic projectile weapons that fire ammunition without the need of conventional gunpowder has shown up in...

Would you like an adorable pet robot that you can program yourself to help you perform a variety of household activities? Before you...

These days, there seems to be a robot suited for just about every task. From writing songs to creating artwork, working as lawyers,...

If you're not already pumped for next week's total solar eclipse, it's time to get even more excited: one fun side effect of the...

For anyone who's grown up reading the adventures of Spider-Man in the comics--particularly anything from the Sixties, when he...

A true Back to the Future DeLorean won't be possible until we make some major breakthroughs in time travel, but when that day comes,...

It's been twenty years since Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov, the world chess champion, at his own game. Since then, AI has mastered Go...

It's kind of fun that we're at the point now that binary computers are being called "classical computers" by industry experts.A recent...

If you haven’t heard about the upcoming eclipse, you may have been living under a moon rock. On August 21st, a historic total solar...

From the Space Corps to laser weaponry, life is beginning to feel a little bit more like Star Wars than the 21st century. So it's...

At this moment, in the Synthetic Genomics, Inc. lab (SGI) in San Diego, California, the first-ever biological teleportation device...

If you've seen a post or comment from a friend on Facebook that's written in a language other than English recently, you might have...

For those of us who had life-affirming experiences playing Star Wars video games (Knights of the Old Republic, Jedi Knight, Shadows...

This isn't a movie. This isn't a joke. MegaBots, an American company, challenged the Japanese company Suidobashi to a giant robot...

DARPA, or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has had a long-standing reputation as a leader in bizarre, cutting-edge,...

Cosmic objects like asteroids aren’t just big rocks threatening the future of civilization in blockbuster sci-fi flicks (and,...

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?If so, you might have been reading the International Journal of Molecular...