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Want to hang out with stormtroopers from the 501st, sword fighters from the medieval and Renaissance eras, MC…

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How do condom manufacturers do scientific tests on their wares? Using this machine, apparently, which imitates the…

Doesn't this plate of sliced hard drive look delicious? It was created in less than a minute by a refrigerator-sized…

Fresh off his top-selling novel Halo: The Cole Protocol, Tobias Buckell is turning back to original stories with an…

New indie flick District 9 is about bureaucrats trying to evict 1.5 million stranded, buglike aliens from a vast…

A crazy lady points her gun at a hulking thing and delivers a screaming speech right into the camera. Is it a Sam…

Over the weekend, NY Times science fiction columnist David Itzkoff wondered "how any self-respecting author of…

In three to five years, a baby will be born with two genetic mothers and one father. This could prove to be a boon…

Orbit Books just announced that iTunes UK is making an unabridged audio book of Iain M. Banks' new novel Matter…

In the next decade, people may begin taking HIV medications to prevent contracting the AIDS virus, much the same…

Yesterday in Israel, a bomb disposal robot inspected the scene of a suicide bombing at a shopping mall in the town…

These robo-kangaroos have evolved to use language (they vocalize through the speakers near their throats), and…

Ever since On the Beach was published in 1957, Australia has been the country we think of when we think "global…

Early this morning Iran launched its first rocket into space. It was part of a test of a satellite launcher that…

Want to make the goo in a petri dish spell out the words "Hello World"? Now you can. Biopunk provocateur Quinn…

Will soldiers of the future be given serotonin depressors to make them depressed and therefore fearless? A new…

Semi-permanent heart pumps like this one are installed in people's hearts all over the world. The problem is that…