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Will 'Digital Ethnic Cleansing' Be Part of the Internet's Future? The Atlantic

Will 'Digital Ethnic Cleansing' Be Part of the Internet's Future?

Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen, and Steve Clemons discuss the political limitations of the Internet.

NASA Records an Explosion on the Moon So Bright You Could Have Seen It With Your Bare Eyes
It's Artificial Afghanistan: A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert Venue

It's Artificial Afghanistan: A Simulated Battlefield in the Mojave Desert

An hour northeast of Barstow, California, there's an army base the size of Rhode Island, complete with a fake Afghan town known as Ertebat Shar.

The Time Exxon Went Into the Semiconductor Business (and Failed) Computer History Museum

The Time Exxon Went Into the Semiconductor Business (and Failed)

And it wasn't just Exxon. In Silicon Valley's early days, all sorts of major corporations tried to get a piece of the pie.

2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space NASA

2,060 Minutes: Gordo Cooper and the Last American Solo Flight in Space

Imagine being alone in space ... and almost not making it back.

The Uncanny Face Model They Made With Richard III's Skull Gareth Fuller/PA

The Uncanny Face Model They Made With Richard III's Skull

... And it was made by, yep, a 3D printer.

A Robot Just Broke the Human Record for Miles Driven in Space NASA

A Robot Just Broke the Human Record for Miles Driven in Space

Another victory for Opportunity, the spunky little rover driving on Mars

Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography AP/Jeff Chiu

Why the New Google Maps Is the Most Honest Form of Cartography

Maps have always been impartial. Now that impartiality is Google's selling point.

When Romeo Is a Robot Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl

When Romeo Is a Robot

Two sensor-laden machines explore love in the time of automata.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini Draws the 'History of the Computer Industry' in 1 Chart Alexis Madrigal

Intel CEO Paul Otellini Draws the 'History of the Computer Industry' in 1 Chart

From 2000 units sold at $10,000 a pop to a billion units sold at $100 a piece.

The Art of Facebook Ben Barry

The Art of Facebook

Inside the company's Analog Research Laboratory, where designer Ben Barry is "packaging" Facebook's corporate persona

Martha Stewart and the Cannibal Polar Bears: A True Story Jon Mooallem

Martha Stewart and the Cannibal Polar Bears: A True Story

An excerpt from Jon Mooallem's new book, Wild Ones

Are These the First Ever Pictures of Honduras's Lost Ciudad Blanca? UTL Productions, LLC

Are These the First Ever Pictures of Honduras's Lost Ciudad Blanca?

Explorers have been searching on foot for Honduras's mythical city for generations. Now, they seem to have found it from a tiny Cessna airplane, aided by million-dollar technology.

Not a Metaphor: A Whole New Way to Watch a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly Tristan Lowe

Not a Metaphor: A Whole New Way to Watch a Caterpillar Become a Butterfly

Scientists use CT scanning technologies to better understand the insect world.

No, Really: We're Going to Keep Burning Oil—and Lots of It Reuters

No, Really: We're Going to Keep Burning Oil—and Lots of It

No matter how much we wish it were otherwise, the economics favor burning fossil fuels.

Space Is Now a Reality TV Show NASA

Space Is Now a Reality TV Show

Chris Hadfield's return from the International Space Station marks a new era for the final frontier.

These Friendly Robots Would Like to Mix You a Cocktail

These Friendly Robots Would Like to Mix You a Cocktail

On the menu? One googol of potential drink combinations.

It Doesn't Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won't Want to Burn It Anymore Reuters

It Doesn't Matter If We Never Run Out of Oil: We Won't Want to Burn It Anymore

Like whale oil in the 1860s, oil today has become uncompetitive -- even at low prices -- and that will only become truer with time.

How Humans Have Seen the World, Through Data

How Humans Have Seen the World, Through Data

PBS Off Book explains the long history of info visualization.

So This Is How It Begins: Guy Refuses to Stop Drone-Spying on Seattle Woman Alexis C. Madrigal

The Biggest Story in Photos

2013 National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest

Is He Cheating? A 1950s Guide
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