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Is it really Christmas if you don’t have a little sci-fi on your tree? Hallmark would say no.

Chemical engineer Cynthia Kartey is all about turning biomass—from leftover crop stalks to fallen trees—into…

A Christmas Story? Christmas Vacation? Scrooged? All memorable holiday films, but none of them can hold a candle, or…

A Latvian company called Scandiweb was recently awarded the Guinness World Record for Largest Rube Goldberg machine…

If your love of Star Wars transcends all holiday traditions, then from this day forth Christmas just won’t feel like…

Real Christmas trees are beautiful. They smell good. They look classy as hell. They are not made of plastic and…

Wouldn't decorating for the holidays be so much easier if you could simply have a decked-out Christmas tree…

Once again, it's time buy dead trees. Once again, we should marvel at the way they harvest them: Using insane…

Botanists have been busy trying to iron out the pesky needle drop from Christmas trees for years by crossing…

RatedRR never fails to deliver crazy videos of things exploding, firing, or bursting into flames. This video of a…

Under most circumstances, the combination of trees and fire would be the stuff nightmares are made of—or dreams,…

Christmas is over. Chances are you still have your tree up, but sooner or later you're going to have to get rid of…

That Dalek thinks it's so clever, covering itself with pine branches and white lights, lying in wait until Santa…

Nick Veasey is a mad scientist-photographer who x-rays everything that falls onto his hands, including a Boeing 777.…

London might be cold, gray, wet and miserable. But at least it has a giant Lego Christmas tree to cheer up its…

Scientists have figured out how to engineer a Christmas tree with longer needle retention time. What other bells and…

Real trees might trump fake trees in being green, but nothing beats building a Christmas tree from recycled bottles.…

A fake Christmas tree can theoretically be used forever. A real Christmas tree has to be cut, bought, tossed out and…

O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, you really are quite frightening! At least, you are after I've seen you burn down a…

For those tired of traditional Christmas trees—their prickly needles, their tiresome ornaments, their limited…