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This material is 100 times lighter than styrofoam--but it's also really strong!

American supercomputers now make up half of the top 10 fastest machines on the planet.

Human skin is a hard system to emulate, but that hasn't stopped Stanford scientists from producing a touch-sensitive material that can heal itself at room temperature.

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We know diamonds are the hardest, but determining the softest stuff on the planet is complicated.

In the future, donuts.lol will be the highest-trafficked site on the internet. We will all visit it for donut lols.

Make sure nobody will ever see your classified documents.

A new exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrates Kubrick's pioneering embrace of cutting-edge technologies, from Steadicams to NASA satellite lenses.

Archaeologists argue that drought caused by climate variation played a major role in the decline and fall of Mayan civilization.

Like a lot of suds on the top of your beer pour? Scientists have found a gene for that.

Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.

Some methods that people have suggested for preventing, or stopping, a hurricane--and why they might not work

An open letter from PopSci to President Obama about science and the future

A disaster simulation that's a lot of fun.

An animation by Northeastern University's LazerLab shows what's being donated, and where.

Looking around for methane in Gale Crater, Curiosity found a whole lot of nothing. But that doesn't dash hopes of finding evidence of life on Mars some day.

What do you need to rig an election? A basic knowledge of electronics and $30 worth of RadioShack gear, professional hacker Roger Johnston reveals. The good news: we can stop it.

Biocomputers make maps, run logic gates, perform binary calculations and more.

Petroleum tanks damaged during the storm spilled an estimated quarter million gallons of oil into New Jersey waterways. Now crews are working around the clock to clean it up.

Ken Mampel, an unemployed, 56-year-old Floridian, is in large part the creator of the massive Hurricane Sandy Wikipedia page. He's also the reason that, for nearly a week, the page had no mention of climate change.