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Has Google Discovered Dark Butter?
Technology

Has Google Discovered Dark Butter?

how-it-works illustration of an Underground Robot Library
Robots

How It Works: Underground Robot Library

how-it-works illustration of a Salmon Transporter
Technology

How It Works: Salmon Transport

how-it-works illustration of the world's fastest elevator
Technology

How It Works: World’s Fastest Elevator

how-it-works illustration of a Dual-Blade Buzz Saw
Technology

How It Works: Dual-Blade Buzz Saw

illustration of Two-In-One Turbocharger
Vehicles

How It Works: Two-In-One Turbocharger

how-it-works illustration of an Airport Fire Truck
Vehicles

How It Works: Airport Fire Truck

Mars Watch Face
Mars

How Do You Tell Time On Mars?

The challenge of synchronizing rovers on Mars with their drivers on Earth

how-it-works illustration of a Nerf Sharpshooter
Technology

How It Works: 20-Yard Shootout

Reconstructed: a Dinosaur With Four Iridescent Wings
Dinosaurs

Reconstructed: a Dinosaur With Four Iridescent Wings

Microraptors like these used to roam the Earth

Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Twister on the Martian Plains
Technology

Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures a Twister on the Martian Plains

To Show Us All the Winds of Space, NASA Will Launch Five Rockets at the Same Time
Technology

To Show Us All the Winds of Space, NASA Will Launch Five Rockets at the Same Time

The tracers will light up the sky on the East Coast

Stop the Foolishness: Of Course Pink Is a Color
Science

Stop the Foolishness: Of Course Pink Is a Color

Gray Matter: In Which I Dip My Finger In Molten Lead
Projects

Gray Matter: In Which I Dip My Finger In Molten Lead

The true test of trust in science

FBI Arrests Members of LulzSec Hacking Group, With Help From the Inside
Technology

FBI Arrests Members of LulzSec Hacking Group, With Help From the Inside

The Air Force’s Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Celebrates Its First Full Year in Orbit
Technology

The Air Force’s Mysterious X-37B Spaceplane Celebrates Its First Full Year in Orbit

Well, we're celebrating anyhow--there's no telling what it's actually doing

Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence
Space

Massive Extraterrestrial Rock Hit Earth 13 Millennia Ago, According to Nano-Evidence

Did An Optical Illusion Doom the Titanic?
Science

Did An Optical Illusion Doom the Titanic?

In the Last Year, Hackers Gained ‘Full Functional Control’ of NASA Networks, Stole the Control Codes for the ISS
NASA

In the Last Year, Hackers Gained ‘Full Functional Control’ of NASA Networks, Stole the Control Codes for the ISS

Testimony to Congress reveals just how bad NASA's cybersecurity problem has become

You Built What?!: A Compact Mechanical Crossbow With the Precision of a Laser
Projects

You Built What?!: A Compact Mechanical Crossbow With the Precision of a Laser

Wrist-mounted weaponry brought to you by the letter Y