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What the Kids Are Doing: A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines Vinecrawler

What the Kids Are Doing: A Search Engine for 4 Million Vines

Think you're a 30-year-old digital native? Vine may make you reconsider.

Here's What Happens When You Light a Fire in Space

Here's What Happens When You Light a Fire in Space

"Strange flames" on the International Space Station

Big Data Analytics Will Help Us to Explore the Universe

Big Data Analytics Will Help Us to Explore the Universe

Harnessing data from 500,000 antennas, scientists are building a system to measure radio signals from unexplored parts of the universe.

Systems that Perceive, Think, and Act

Systems that Perceive, Think, and Act

Technological advances are allowing scientists to begin building a cognitive computer that functions like a brain.

NSA Leak Catch-Up: The Latest on the Edward Snowden Fallout Reuters

NSA Leak Catch-Up: The Latest on the Edward Snowden Fallout

A guide to the coverage of the revelations about the NSA's surveillance programs.

The Remote Siberian Monument to the First Woman in Space, Who Launched 50 Years Ago Today wikimapia.org

The Remote Siberian Monument to the First Woman in Space, Who Launched 50 Years Ago Today

Valentina Tereshkova flew into space twenty years ahead of the first American woman to do so, Sally Ride.

You Are Here: A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center

You Are Here: A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center

Beautiful, deep view into the Milky Way's core

In the 8th Century, This Egyptian Port City Fell Into the Sea

In the 8th Century, This Egyptian Port City Fell Into the Sea

In the 21st, you can watch it being rediscovered on YouTube.

Meet the Robotics Company Apple Just Anointed Anki

Meet the Robotics Company Apple Just Anointed

The coming revolution in the toy aisle

 A Moving Video of Every NASA Space Shuttle Launch at One Time

A Moving Video of Every NASA Space Shuttle Launch at One Time

A scene in two parts: triumph and tragedy

How Do You Have a Mass Extinction Without an Increase in Extinctions? jsj1771/Flickr

How Do You Have a Mass Extinction Without an Increase in Extinctions?

Roughly 375 million years ago, the number of species on Earth plummeted. But extinction rates remained steady. What changed was that new species failed to emerge.

A Rotating Thunderstorm, Closer Than You Have (Hopefully) Ever Seen Before

A Rotating Thunderstorm, Closer Than You Have (Hopefully) Ever Seen Before

A timelapse of a supercell beautifully captures the anger of nature.

A Prosthetic Limb, Controlled by an Amputee's Thoughts

A Prosthetic Limb, Controlled by an Amputee's Thoughts

Thanks to new DARPA technology, things like picking up a coffee cup could be, literally, within grasp.

The Solar Eclipse as You've Never Seen It Before NASA

The Solar Eclipse as You've Never Seen It Before

Bringing the moon's face out of the shadows

The Hashtag Is About to Roll Out to a Billion People, and This One Guy Invented It Google

The Hashtag Is About to Roll Out to a Billion People, and This One Guy Invented It

The history of any invention is complicated, but this is a case in which one person came up with something new and watched the whole (online) world adopt it.

What's Cooler Than Jetpacks? Snowboarding on Mars NASA

What's Cooler Than Jetpacks? Snowboarding on Mars

A mystery of the Martian terrain gives way to fantasizing about extreme sports in space.

Navy Gives Up ALL-CAPS Messaging, 160 Years After It Began Marcin Wichary/Flickr
A Sperm Bank for Better Bees Shutterstock/Tischenko Irina

A Sperm Bank for Better Bees

One way to combat colony collapse disorder? Genetically diversify the bee population.

Why the Facebook Innovation Machine Doesn't Work on Mobile Devices Reuters

Why the Facebook Innovation Machine Doesn't Work on Mobile Devices

On mobile, there's less data to work with, and the result is a product that only feels right to Facebook's employees.

Explained: Fluffy Cows' Existence, in Iowa and on the Internet Lautner Farms

Explained: Fluffy Cows' Existence, in Iowa and on the Internet

They're here, they're steer, get used to it.

Dear Silicon Valley: Meritocracy Is an Ideology Too NLshop/Shutterstock

Dear Silicon Valley: Meritocracy Is an Ideology Too

The central political value that animates Silicon Valley is neither libertarianism nor progressivism. It's meritocracy.

Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data? nickboos/Flickr

Why Should We Even Care If the Government Is Collecting Our Data?

Kafka, not Orwell, can help us understand the problems of digitized mass surveillance, argues legal scholar Daniel J. Solove.

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