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Our government wins in espionage, but not in PowerPoint. Luckily for the NSA, there's the Internet.

Next time, members of Congress should make sure to ask for a briefing about a program they have no reason to believe even exists.

There are about 1,100 compelling reasons why the NSA leaker shouldn't fear death from above.

The New York City mayor's new $20 billion storm preparation plan is based on some scary data about how the city will look by the 2050s.

Reinventing the array could usher in a new age for solar.

And 23 percent don't even use soap. That's messed up, people.

The other Apple OS X versions have all been named after wild cats. 10.9 is called Mavericks. Not bad--but why not honor these lesser-known cats? (Thanks to Tom Scocca for the idea.)

Or is it an acquired taste?

Crucial to the program? Online tech companies.

I consumed nothing but Soylent, a food-replacing beverage, for a week. Here's what happened to me (and my poop).

Mind the 3,400-ton truss!

Really: Why would they bother telling us the truth?

An ambitious experiment is underway to harness the heat of a volcano in central Oregon. The process is green, efficient... and causes earthquakes.

Verizon has given the U.S. National Security Agency information on all its telephone calls for months. But it's not the calls' content the government is looking at—it's their context.

Spoiler: still not super hospitable.

A scientific breakdown brought to you courtesy of a high-speed camera.

Coverage doesn't always reflect where the money is going. Whether that matters is a different story.

How a drug now can change fear later.

Recovered from sedimentary rock strata deposited in an ancient Chinese lake roughly 55 million years ago, Archicebus achilles provides a key link in the history of human evolution.