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Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean
Ocean

Building a Massive Neutrino Hunter Beneath the Mediterranean

The second-biggest structure in human history will seek to answer deep cosmic mysteries

Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon
NASA

Video: To Hunt Comets, NASA is Building a Giant Harpoon

Goddard Space Flight Center is about to get medieval on some comets

You Built What?! The World’s Largest Videogame Controller
DIY

You Built What?! The World’s Largest Videogame Controller

Talk about your Super(sized) Mario Bros.: this controller does away with sore thumbs, but it might sprain a few ankles

Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol, Making it the First Country to Legally Opt Out
Climate Change

Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Protocol, Making it the First Country to Legally Opt Out

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle
Private Space Flight

Brand-New Stratolaunch, the Biggest Plane in the World, Could Replace the Space Shuttle

Paul Allen's new venture reunites the Ansari X Prize team, and adds SpaceX

Video: A Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Captures Individual Photons Moving Through Space
Space

Video: A Trillion-Frame-Per-Second Camera Captures Individual Photons Moving Through Space

A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012
Science

A Tantalizing Glimpse That May Be the Higgs Boson — But Wait For 2012

Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style
Technology

Download Knowledge Directly to Your Brain, Matrix-Style

Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015
Environment

Chinese Government Plans to Cause Ten Percent More Rain By 2015

For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in Civilian Arrests on U.S. Soil
Drones

For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in Civilian Arrests on U.S. Soil

Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals
Animals

Video: Rats Choose to Liberate Their Jailed Pals, A Sign of Empathy Among Non-Primate Mammals

Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display
Drones

Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display

A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes
Space

A Global Astronomy Social Network To Let Amateurs Peep Through Robotic Telescopes

Anyone can look through one of the world's most powerful telescopes--from anywhere

Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time
Diabetes

Video: Researchers Watch Type 1 Diabetes As It Unfolds, in Real Time

Real-time immune attack could pinpoint new interventions, thanks to a new procedure

A Surf Park High In the Pyrenees
Technology

A Surf Park High In the Pyrenees

The latest in artificial wave technology

Capturing Electricity with a Shoe
Technology

Capturing Electricity with a Shoe

Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns
Black Holes

Two Behemoth Black Holes, the Largest Ever Discovered, Could Swallow Billions of Suns

Good thing they are 330 million light-years away

Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds
Science

Kepler Team Confirms First Earth-like Planet in a Habitable Zone, And Finds 1,094 More Worlds

The exoplanet census is doubled again

New Map Imposes New York City Grid System on the World
Technology

New Map Imposes New York City Grid System on the World

Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement
Physics

Researchers Entangle Two Millimeter-Sized Diamonds, A Huge Leap in the Scale of Quantum Entanglement