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A study shows how fast food chains' logos are enough to light up pleasure centers in children's brains.

But Congressmen have a plan to revamp the space agency so it runs more efficiently, like the FBI.

Once upon a time, drivers had only a ball of wax and a wick to light their way

New research from the MIT AgeLab suggests that more legible dashboard typefaces could decrease distracted driving and, ultimately, save lives.

After overestimating its energy needs, the software giant allegedly strong-armed a small-town utility into reducing a six-figure penalty by threatening to needlessly burn millions of watts.

The fatal flaw of bike locks: Freezing one makes it easy to bust open. Check out video of some DIY bike theft inside.

Everyone has defense mechanisms. What's yours?

A new study is the first to identify a molecular basis for cat coat patterns. Could cat stripes be an immune defense mechanism?

MakerBot Industries is opening the first U.S. retail store dedicated to 3-D printing. Explore a space that may soon arrive at a shopping mall near you.

Good ol' 1234 accounts for about 10 percent of passwords. That's more than the bottom 4,200 combinations put together.

MakerBot will open a 3-D printing shop on Sept. 20 in New York City. Inside, a new breed of machines prints out designs from the web. The hope: to make the hobby mainstream.

To get an idea of the color or size of an object on Mars, it helps to have a point of reference.

This unusual cookie-dough-looking clump of Martian soil, never before seen, hints at a watery past or a major crater-causing impact.

Plenty of galaxies look like letters, so why not use them as letters?

A mathematics professor issued an urgent warning about football in 1894. America ignored him.

The genders are more alike than they are different, with one notable exception.

March 17, 1927, to be exact.

A 180-pound, 8.5-foot-long Frankencycle

To fight deadly white nose syndrome, The Nature Conservancy has built an artificial cave, which now awaits its first tenants.