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If you wanted better asteroid detection, maybe you should have provided some funding, NASA's chief told Congress.

The display beams 3-D objects a centimeter above or below.

The following is an excerpt from Adam Alter's new book Drunk Tank Pink: And Other Unexpected Forces That Shape How We Think, Feel, and Behave, available on Amazon.

An Oregon startup wants to sell you peace of mind by messing with drones. Our guess? This is only the beginning of what could be a very lucrative market.

Short answer: the egg.

Earth's biggest astronomy machine, inaugurated last week, will see farther into the past than ever before.

Or, how to look like you're innovating while actually doing everything to keep the status quo.

Have you seen it at sunset yet?

How do we decide how rare an animal is? How do we figure out how long before it goes extinct? And how do we stop that from happening?

Is Google Maps just an excuse for Google employees to take off on adventures carrying cameras and call it work?

The science of the "vampire facial"

Finding a dangerous lack of medical literature on the subject, Mayo doctors did some research of their own.

A captain and a sailor died after the Bounty, a wooden ship built for a Marlon Brando film in the 1960s, sank off the coast of North Carolina during Hurricane Sandy. Journalist and Popular Science contributor Matthew Shaer reconstructs the ship's final voyage.

Zoom around the world's networks with a new 3-D visualization app.

Just sit back and enjoy the carnage.

A Japanese company is working on the technology, which it says it'll have ready by the end of the year.

People can correctly identify a wide range of dog emotions by sight.

It's a phobia, but other phobias don't give you that same woozy feeling.