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What It's Like to See the Aurora From Space NASA

What It's Like to See the Aurora From Space

Two astronauts chatting about seeing the specialness of Earth's beauty from above.

'Ads by Google': A Billion-Dollar Brainstorm Turns 10 Shutterstock/Nata-Lia

'Ads by Google': A Billion-Dollar Brainstorm Turns 10

Google's Susan Wojcicki on AdSense, the program changing web advertising for good

Machines Can't Flow: The Difference Between Mechanical and Human Productivity Library of Congress

Machines Can't Flow: The Difference Between Mechanical and Human Productivity

More output, produced faster may be great metrics for machines, but for homo sapiens, the most powerful metric is engagement.

Enbrel and the Autoimmune Era Wikimedia Commons

Enbrel and the Autoimmune Era

How a banner biotech drug made in Chinese hamster ovary cells is changing disease even as it treats it. An Object Lesson.

The Problem of the Chair Humanscale

The Problem of the Chair

Designer Niels Diffrient was the latest in a line of masters finding new ways to adapt the material world to our bodies.

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

Confirmed: 1-Billion-Year-Old Water Tastes 'Terrible' J. Telling

Confirmed: 1-Billion-Year-Old Water Tastes 'Terrible'

Saltier than sea water and the consistency of "very light maple syrup." Yuck.

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.

India's Last Telegram Will Be Sent in July Shutterstock/rook76

India's Last Telegram Will Be Sent in July

The transformative technology will come to, yes, a FULL STOP.

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.

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