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Double Fine Productions Smashes Kickstarter Record, Raises $400,000 in Eight Hours for Next Videogame
Technology

Double Fine Productions Smashes Kickstarter Record, Raises $400,000 in Eight Hours for Next Videogame

A game for the people, funded by the people, with no corporations in the way

A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds
NASA

A Roller Coaster That’ll Leave You Weightless for Eight Long Seconds

The plan costs $50 million, but it'll be unlike any roller coaster ever built

Tiniest Telecommunications Laser Ever Made, 200 Nanometers Wide
Technology

Tiniest Telecommunications Laser Ever Made, 200 Nanometers Wide

An Oral History of Extreme Sports
Science

An Oral History of Extreme Sports

"Gravity has always been a major part of my life."

Gray Matter: Recasting The Highly Hazardous Toys of the Past
Projects

Gray Matter: Recasting The Highly Hazardous Toys of the Past

Gives new meaning to the term "getting the lead out"

200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World’s Oldest Living Organism
Ocean

200,000-Year-Old Patch of Seagrass Is the World’s Oldest Living Organism

UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains
Technology

UK Report Suggests Soldiers Could One Day Plug Their Weapons Right Into Their Brains

Dangerous-sounding neuroscience

Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015
Drones

Drones Will Be Admitted to Standard US Airspace By 2015

Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World
Animals

Video Gallery: The Most Amazing Movies of the Minuscule World

The winners of the Nikon Small World microvideography contest

Building a Drivable OutRun Arcade Cabinet
Projects

Building a Drivable OutRun Arcade Cabinet

We feel confident anointing this the world's first augmented-reality golf-cart-based OutRun cabinet

Inside the Brand-New High-Tech Rainbow Warrior
Engineering

Inside the Brand-New High-Tech Rainbow Warrior

Greenpeace's new ship, built to order, is ready to sail

State of Play: The World’s Most Amazing Playgrounds
Technology

State of Play: The World’s Most Amazing Playgrounds

Architecture and design firms are remaking the playground in ways you'd never expect

To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film
Science

To Compare Human and Monkey Brains, Humans and Monkeys Watch a Clint Eastwood Film

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class
Science

10-Year-Old Accidentally Creates New Molecule in Science Class

Little Clara's tetranitratoxycarbon is brand new and explosive

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?
Biology

Is This New Study the Nail in the Coffin of “Arsenic Life”?

A Canadian researcher says she has debunked controversial claims that a microbe found in California's Mono Lake can replace the phosphorus in its DNA with arsenic

Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines
Technology

Video: SpaceX Test-Fires Its New Super-Powerful Capsule Engines

Hilarious “Theory of Everything” Paper Provokes Kerfuffle
Science

Hilarious “Theory of Everything” Paper Provokes Kerfuffle

Journal editor resigns after publishing "an incommensurable, trans-disciplinary, neologistical, axiomatic theory of life from quantum gravity to the living cell"

FYI: Do Animals Dream?
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FYI: Do Animals Dream?

Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists
Technology

Translucent Blue Spheres Rain Down in the UK, Mystifying Meteorologists

Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?
Science

Should Scientists Be Held Legally Responsible for Their Results?