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"This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For"

Maybe, if you're really prepared. But it's not going to be an especially smooth flight.

Combine simple household items to make a rocket propulsion system.

Fractional freezing will concentrate any beer, provided you have a bit of patience and a very cold freezer.

Identify your brew's tastes and smells with a consumer-friendly beer flavor wheel.

Austin-based TrackingPoint shows off its new 'precision guided firearms' that allow the shooter to choose the shot before pulling the trigger.

Two new experiments show how easy it would be to infect Mars with alien microbes.

Scientists have figured out how clots form in the blood, and are using the same method to develop a new class of materials.

It picks you up when you're ready to leave your hotel.

An Arduino is a popular open-source single-board microcontroller. Learn how to program one and let the possibilities take shape.

New clues show how the massive Japanese earthquake happened, and how certain faults could pose a previously unrealized threat.

Insects are ravaging North American forests like never before, and NASA satellites are watching the landscape change.

Perhaps the best smartphone Sony's ever made. But that's not saying all that much.

Physicists calculate how many newtons of force would be needed to carry the peach across the Atlantic.

Record-breaking temperatures require a meteorological redesign.

Legos come to life with this classic animation trick.

Your odds aren't as bad as you think, and some enthusiasm could put you over the brink.

First scientific findings released from the fake mission show that “maintenance of human behavior” was difficult.

On the lam without your car charger? Splice some wires and be on your way.

There is also a cornucopia of comets.