China Plans to Launch Its Own Mars Probe Next Year
China’s space agency plans to launch a probe to Mars next year, following its recent successful landing on the Moon’s…
China Successfully Touches Down Chang'e 4, First Soft-Landed Craft on the Far Side of the Moon
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has landed the Chang’e 4 lunar probe on the far side of the Moon, Chinese…
China to Launch Mission to Moon's Far Side on Monday
China’s mission to explore the Moon’s far side is set to launch in part on Monday (Sunday in the US). As the Guardian re…
Some of the EPA's Climate Change Pages Came Back, But They're Missing Something
It’s been nearly six months since the Environmental Protection Agency unceremoniously axed its climate change webpages…
What China's Yutu Rover Learned on the Moon
A team of scientists has finished analyzing rocks collected by the Chinese lunar rover Yutu in 2013 — the first…
Why Apple Could Leave Ports Behind
While rumors of a 12-inch MacBook Air have been merrily percolating these last few months, the most interesting aspect…
China Gets A Step Closer To Their Lunar Sample Return Mission
China's Chang'e 5 test vehicle has successfully completed the most recent stage of its lunar return technology…
Crazy people change two wheels while driving the car
Why stop to change your tires when you can keep driving on two wheels and have your passengers go out the car to change…
NASA snaps a pic of China's Yutu Rover from 93 miles overhead
China's Yutu rover has been spotted by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LRO). The 60-inch wide robot can be…
Watch China's Chang'e 3 land on the Moon!
This weekend, China became the third country in history to put a spacecraft on the Moon with the soft-landing touchdown…
Human Poop Is Killing the Coral
This is what coral is supposed to look like. The bad news is that a bacteria from human sewage is killing coral in the…
The World's Fastest SDXC Card Still Can't Compete With Compact Flash... Yet
Delkin's new 64GB SD card may well be the "fastest SDXC card in the world" and with respective read/write speeds of 95…
Solid State Drives Are About to Get 7x Faster if Phase-Change Memory Catches On
Hard drives are all about how much you can store and how quickly you can store it. And this soon-to-be-unveiled…
Our Choice for iPad and iPhone
While the iPad has ramped up my of internet reading considerably, I still prefer to tackle books in their physical…
Dying Borders Tells Amazon to Go to Hell In Most Passive Aggressive Way Possible
What do you do when your business model and way of life has been obliterated by the internet? Put up a bitchy sign, of…
How to Change a Wheel Faster and (Almost) Painlessly
If you ever got caught with a flat—how about that—you know how much it sucks to jack up your car, especially in the…
I took blurry 5MP phone pics of a girl, and I liked it
Last night, I joined the NY Giz team (and a throng of several hundred strangers) for a Microsoft-sponsored evening with…
Metal From "Outer Space" Falls Down on Chinese Villages
What would you think if you saw this fall from the sky? Would you think it was from a passing airplane, or scream that…
Science fiction is about the inevitability of change, whether you welcome it or not
"Science fiction is naturally melodramatic and extreme... It asks two great questions, "What if?" and "If this goes…
NASA's Earth Day Gift Runs On a 56,832-Core, 128-Screen Climate Research Supercomputer
Earth Week is upon us, and NASA has prepared a very special gift for the blue planet: a planetary data-crunching tool…