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If you followed the news out of CES closely you probably heard the word HDR tossed around a lot. This coming year…

The most popular artificial material on Earth isn’t steel, plastic, or aluminum — it’s concrete. Thousands of years…

Ugh. You’re up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a gallon of coffee can’t get your day on track.…

From powering airplanes to replacing nuclear energy, algae has been touted as a green energy miracle. So if our…

Being wary of Friday the 13th is much more than a quaint superstition observed by a few uneducated people in…

Everybody knows not to shine laser pointers in your eye. They could damage your vision! (Emphasis on could, since…

Today is the deadline for US retailers to switch over to a payment technology called EMV. That means you’ll have to…

The need to find fuel to generate energy is a profound drive within the biology of all living organisms: we all need…

When a United Airlines flight made an emergency landing this summer due to medical situations on board, as the…

“Screw you Apple, where the goddamn hell is my middle finger emoji?” can soon be conveyed in far fewer characters,…

Whatever you do, don’t press that button. It’s a trope that’s spanned pop culture for generations—and the real…

People are terrified that they’re being exposed to radiation all the time, whether from a distant nuclear accident…

Ever since Morpheus explained how the machines use humans as batteries in The Matrix, we’ve been fascinated by the…

Every day, you hear about security flaws, viruses, and evil hacker gangs that could leave you destitute — or, worse,…

#?&%! Why do some URLs look like cuss words in comic books? We have the answer.

Radioactivity stirs primal fears in many people—but an undue sense of its risks can cause real harm.

If you use Google’s new Photos app, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Skype’s new translation function, you’re using a form of…

On July 14th, the New Horizons spacecraft will make history when it sails past Pluto, formerly known as the ninth…

With the world population projected to soar past the 11 billion mark by 2100, we’re going to need to find some…

You know the smell. It’s hard to describe, but the second you step on an airplane, a flood of familiarity flies up…