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We chat with Al Palmer, director for the Center for UAS Research, Education and Training at the University of North Dakota, about creating a drone-friendly state.

The novelist Nicholson Baker makes a case against algebra

They just want a nice home! And to destroy you.

Twelve-year-old electronics prodigy Quin Etnyre wanted to make education more fun. So he became a teacher.

A spy plane, an intelligence agency, and the magical logic of conspiracy theories all made an American legend.

Get a lab-grade centrifuge (normally $2,000) for 50 bucks.

The way our brain handles remembering to remember something, called prospective memory, has been somewhat of a mystery to scientists, until now.

World War II combat pilots have been lost at the bottom of the Pacific ocean for nearly 70 years. Now autonomous robots have been deployed to find them.

Including a backyard trampoline, a playhouse built from window blinds, a flying saucer that doubles as a water ski, and more

By using a link-referral service called Outbrain, the Syrian Electronic Army dove into the Washington Post.

A seven-item hors d'oeuvres tour through the wonders of bug-eating

Uh, some islands 'n' stuff?

Ask an astrobiological philosopher!

The rise of citizen photo/videojournalism: why old media loves it and needs it, and why it's, at best, a temporary solution.

A new study suggests that there are distinct differences in brain function between people who remember their dreams and those who don't.